• We are a multilingual website again. Read the notice about this.
  • Understand AI use at MyPTSD: all AI use is explained in our AI help page. AI use is by choice here. It exists if you want it, but does nothing unless you choose to use it.

From Teenage Runaway To Adult Homelessness

Status
Not open for further replies.

missbliss

Bronze Member
Putting pieces together. I started running away actually when I was a toddler. I first had to break down the crib I was left in for hours at a time, then make my way downstairs and out the door and across the street. It took a while till anyone noticed my *absence. But that became a routine in later years - at 13 I started habitually running away from *home*. I ran to mountains, deserts, any place that didn't have the reek of the insanity I had known as *home*. Then I ran across country and then I ran across continents. Always running from the disease. Finally I just accepted that I wouldn't be able to outrun it and just stayed in whatever situation came. I stayed in war zones. I stayed while rocks were being thrown at me. I stayed while fires were being set to get me to move. I stayed because I couldn't run anymore and my body was breaking down. I just couldn't run anymore physically. But in my mind - I run all the time.

Dissociating from this world - to the extent where I am now losing track of time. It happened again on Friday. I had no clue it was Friday. I thought it was Thursday. I went into complete shock to find out that I had again lost time. There were no drugs or substances involved as weren't during previous times. Just simply being off-track.

This is a scary place to be - not having a place nor having time and matter itself in terms of my body is now also failing me. I take this as an omen to be a dissolving of sorts. All reality is now collapsing, what was once, is no longer. The end or the beginning - it becomes one. I look and see a world I want no part of anyway. Yet, I'm in the hands of my Creator and sing Halleluya for the breath I have, the coffee in my mug, the gifts I've been given and the cognizance to be aware of what is most the time.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Donation drives

2026 Donation Goal

Goal
$1,800.00
Earned
$910.00
This donation drive ends in
0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds
  50.6%

Trending content

Featured content

Back
Top Bottom