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Feels Like I'm Waging A War

Just read the first chapter of.... crud what is it... well it's the skills training manual for dbt, lent to me by new t. Technically I'm supposed to be working on emotion regulation, but I wanted to read the whole thing. It may take awhile. Boy is my concentration shot! That's ok. It's not like it's for a grade.
O ooo but it's for *life*.
Lollollollollol
Feels good to have sort of a direction?
 
So happy to hear this @Bananie !!!! It just gets boring being crazy all the time... and it's exhausting.... so happy to hear you are finding some forward movement... keep my updated how things are going... you know I care... I'm always bugging the crap out of you on your diary !!:D

Sending healing energy your way, it's work, but so is being crazy and unhappy... you are picking your pain... the pain of staying stuck, or the pain of growth...at least one of them has a happier ending... lots of gentle hugs for you to put in the pile...:hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug:
 
Can't believe it's been since January since I've written here!
And I'm doing it cause I reeeeeaaaalllllly feel like contacting old t. Not because I feel bad. I'm pretty ok, ATM. I just miss him.
Oh well!
Last week I was ready to finally end myself. Giving in to the belief that I am worthless, and that the world would be better off without me. I watched documentaries. I wished I was in Belgium, where they have euthanasia. It seems to fit with one of my fav books, The Giver. They "release" people when they no longer serve a purpose in the community. That used to scare/anger me. Now it just makes sense. At least about me. It also reminded me of a scene in Lady and the Tramp that's haunted me for like 35 years. When they lead that poor cheerful dog down the row, and the other dogs explain to Lady, "poor Nutsy's taking the long walk."
Alas, I'm not in Belgium, and if I had the money it would take to get there, I probably wouldn't feel so worthless.
I was also convinced that it was my "destiny".
If you take your own life, that's the ultimate self-control.
I was practicing. I wrote notes. Plans. My final craft project will be my "memorial in a box". I need to find an m word for box. I like alliteration. I'm still going to make the kit, just not anytime soon.
I was just waiting to see the new season of orange is the new black. Also, the 30th was my half birthday, and I've always thought it would be neat to die on my birthday or the day before. Like, rounded. But I was willing to compromise and go half birthday cause I was super over everything.
I ran out of documentaries about the subject, but nothing else seemed appealing. A show, Kim's Convenience, popped up on Netflix, and it's about a Korean family that owns a store in Toronto. Since my niece just got me hooked on kpop, and I love Toronto, I figured why not, and it was adorable. Oddly soothing. It started to soften my resolve. When it ended, I was at a loss again. But something reminded me of the show Wonderfalls. Don't even get me started on the amazeballsness of Wonderfalls and how it affected me when it first came out, while I was living in the falls, and how it bridged on that to me now. It's super nuanced. And now music is distracting me, actually.
At any rate. I'm finally feeling "enough" to even write here, and I'll be back. Sooner than 8 months
 
Very happy to hear from you @Bananie , and even more happy to hear you plans have been 'put off'. Some one here cares about you and has missed you. Tender hugs.:hug::hug::hug::hug:
 
Well that flipped real quick. Ready to check out again. I won't leave my cat. No offense to anyone else, but, for reals, other than her, everyone would be better off without me. And she probably would be, but she only likes me. At least there's sleep. I love sleep.
 
Yes, sleep is great medicine. What can you do that makes you any little bit happy? Do you have any hobbies? Try to look for things like that. If it means anything, I care.
 
Thanks @ladee and @SpiritSong , I appreciate you.
I love to draw, and I've been working mostly on typography lately, and actually thinking it is sort of good. (Lazy Goddess on FB, if you wanna see).
But then I just think, so what? What does that do? What's the point? What's the point of anything?
Meh. It's fine.
 
I remember hearing during my teen years an old saying that is:

"The only thing that is constant is change." I have never forgotten it! (I'm in my 60s now, and how true it has been).
 
It's personalized recovery oriented services. Step down from partial. I signed up for 3 groups a day, 4 days a week.
Monday:
Taking Charge
Emotion Regulation
Mindfulness
Tuesday:
ACT Skills
Distress Tolerance
Meditation
Wednesday:
Hack Your Brain
Goal Planning
Nutrition and Exercise
Thursday:
DBT Lite
Dealing with Difficult People
Structured Skills

After planning to end everything, but not, and then trying to figure out "now what?", I finally admitted, I have no idea what I'm doing, and I need a LOT of help. ?
Feels GREAT!
 

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