Captain Barnacles
Bronze Member
I'm a f*cking idiot.
I started spiralling yesterday- about all sorts of things, but the one that really got me is my fear that Cake Girl is not actually interested in me romantically and that I've completely misunderstood her signals. With all the other shit going on in my life, that's the thing I fixate on.
I can't figure out if I'm f*cking stupid or just awful.
Then I dumped it all on my best friend, unaware that she'd just had terrible news and she basically caved in on herself and went incommunicado for the rest of the day.
I got a tearful, sobbing voice message this morning, apologising for freaking out when I wasn't coping.
She apologised for what I did to her. Can you believe that?
They're sending her back to work with us. In an environment that has left her traumatised. I've told her she can partner up with me again and I'll watch her back, but I don't think it's enough.
I'm tired of comforting sobbing female friends and colleagues in my office because of the actions of their fellow officers. I know how the system works and that I can't report things to HR if I've only been told about them, but I...I don't f*cking know. What could I have done??? I failed them. Stick it over there, on the big f*cking pile of my failures that have ruined other people's lives.
I just go around and around in my head, you know? Everything is awful and it's all my fault.
Yes, other people do these things, but I ought to stop them. I'm supposed to make everything okay and everyone safe and I can't even help those closest to me.
f*ck.
I deserve all of this pain and worse. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I tried to do the decent thing, but I'm too much of a coward. I'm sorry.
I started spiralling yesterday- about all sorts of things, but the one that really got me is my fear that Cake Girl is not actually interested in me romantically and that I've completely misunderstood her signals. With all the other shit going on in my life, that's the thing I fixate on.
I can't figure out if I'm f*cking stupid or just awful.
Then I dumped it all on my best friend, unaware that she'd just had terrible news and she basically caved in on herself and went incommunicado for the rest of the day.
I got a tearful, sobbing voice message this morning, apologising for freaking out when I wasn't coping.
She apologised for what I did to her. Can you believe that?
They're sending her back to work with us. In an environment that has left her traumatised. I've told her she can partner up with me again and I'll watch her back, but I don't think it's enough.
I'm tired of comforting sobbing female friends and colleagues in my office because of the actions of their fellow officers. I know how the system works and that I can't report things to HR if I've only been told about them, but I...I don't f*cking know. What could I have done??? I failed them. Stick it over there, on the big f*cking pile of my failures that have ruined other people's lives.
I just go around and around in my head, you know? Everything is awful and it's all my fault.
Yes, other people do these things, but I ought to stop them. I'm supposed to make everything okay and everyone safe and I can't even help those closest to me.
f*ck.
I deserve all of this pain and worse. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I tried to do the decent thing, but I'm too much of a coward. I'm sorry.
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