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SuperAnxietyGirl

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I decided I should make a thread here so I can express my feelings better and basically have a diary.

Tomorrow I'll write out my trauma and problems I've gone through...good practice or when I talk to my best friend.

Right now I am pretty upset. My dad is trying-again- to get off of his anti-depressant medicine and it's going badly...like usual. My 5 yr old brother is as sick as can be and he accidentally threw up in my parents bed and my dad got mad at him, then at me for "not cleaning it right". My poor brother even said sorry to me while changing his clothes. I wound up in our bathroom sitting on the counter with my legs over the sink with the phone and door locked. My bedroom doesn't have a lock so I felt more comfortable in the bathroom since my anxiety had gone up a lot.

Later I heard my dad stomping around and slamming things. I heard him apologize to my mom but then went on about how my brother puking in his bed was such bullsh*t. Yeah, that erupted my PTSD. Lovely. My anger started to boil. I know my dad can't help it, but no one cut me slack when my medicine caused me problems (I had bad effects to a throw up medicine). I actually wound up grounded for its effects.

Then for the second time ever I had the "craving" to cut. No one knows this, but when I finally stopped taking my throw up medicine it was because I had wanted to cut for the first time. I had never understood the feeling and want to cut and it was completely new to me. I can't help but feel ashamed that the want has happened twice. I have not done it, but I hate the way my arms cry out to me to hurt them. It makes me feel shameful.

Then all of this made me want to tell my best friend everything. I'm waiting til I see her this summer, but still. I want the support. I hate fighting alone. I'm so tired...so tired of it all. All I want is for the guy I like to like me back and to have him there to hold me up and to help me carry my burdens. Of course, that isn't going to happen. I always seem to want what I cannot have...
 
Hey, I really feel for you and your brother. One day, you'll be able to get out of there. I can really identify with the vomiting thing - I remember being 4 and Dad going psycho on me for vomiting - he screamed that I did it on purpose to "get back at" my mother (WTF?) and insisted I clean it up myself. I ran away and hid instead.

We are here for you! You are not alone :hug:
 
Sounds like a really horrible time for you @SuperAnxietyGirl. And summer seems like a long time to wait (wait, are you in the Southern Hemisphere?) to tell your friend. Anyway, I'm glad you're telling us now. I know the weight of that shame—it's crippling and it's silencing. So please keep talking here. You're not alone. We're listening.
 
@macca, wow, yeah...I think he's back on his meds since today he's been fine... I know he couldn't help it... but it always makes me anxiety shoot.

@Amne, I am in the northern hemisphere. So, yes, it is a long time to wait. I've known this girl since I was 11, possibly younger since I think we met when we were around 8. So I wanted to tell her this in person since it'll probably shock her to find out. And thank you!! It is nice being heard for once...
 
Today/last night hasn't been very good... I've been having nightmares every night, but last night's involved a particular man whom perhaps tomorrow I will explain... anyways, he was chasing me and when he finally caught me and had me cornered he grabbed me and then started saying he wanted me and such...... it was horrible and I had even started to question in the dream whether he was that bad or not... When I woke up I forgot about the dream and then I remembered and curled up in a ball under my blankets.

Then tonight, I found my old diary and I idiotically opened it and started looking around. I eventually found a two-sentence entry that wrote: (This isn't exact since I couldn't read my handwriting) Mom and dad dumped all of the beer. 'I am so happy'. That last part really hit me... Tears mmediatly hit my eyes, they didn't fall, and my hands and body started to shake.

Sadly I have years of memories lost. Not sure how it happened... apparently the memories were too much to bare. The two diaries I have contain those lost years...
 
Today has been good... I had another nightmare, I narrowly missed being hit by a car, it was all in slow motion and I remember so vividly the fears of death. Apperently my already-dead cousin didn't make it though. I cried so hard in the dream that I think I may have actually cried in my sleep.

Today though I went to my youth group and people pay so much more attention to me than in Georgia. It reminds me that I'm not there anymore...that I'm here. I'm no longer a shadow...

Next week we go caroling (my first time)! I know this happiness won't last, but until then, I will enjoy it. I also wonder now if I've figured out why I have such a hard relationship with God... I'm wondering if it is because I hate myself so much? People tell me to pray when I'm upset...well I almost..relish...in the pain... Like I feel as if I deserve it and I don't want to take the way out...
 
@SuperAnxietyGirl When I was your age I knew a few eople who were "cutters" so I familiarized myself with the phenomenon. Although I have my fair share of anxiety issues and other stuff going on, I just wanted to note that from what I understand *I AM NOT A DOCTOR* one of the primary reasons people start hurting themselves physically is because it allows the person control over the pain. The physical pain also distracts the person from the emotional pain they are dealing with. When people feel helpless about their emotional and/or psychological pain and are stuck in a bad situation, it can seem almost comforting to inflict pain that the person has control over. The thing is, not only doesn't it work but also, it's likely that someone will notice and put the person harming themselves in an institution where they have even less control over their surroundings. I don't know you, I don't know your exact situation, but from what you've written, it doesn't sound like you're the one in your home who needs to get psychological help.

Again, I'm not a doctor and maybe I'm wrong but I had a really bad time as a teenager as well and what I knew then was that I wasn't suicidal, I didn't want to hurt myself, I just wanted to be in a different situation. As soon as I was able to leave, I did. Do you have an adult you can talk to about the way your parents behave? If so, I would suggest confiding in them. Sometimes an adult knows about options that teenagers aren't aware of. I know I confided in my best friend's parents. It was the best thing I did. I was able to get control over my life and end the situation I was dealing with. Later on, my past ended up catching up with me by leading me into a bad marriage but that's another story. My point is, I know what it feels like to be stuck and I hope there is someone near you who can help you.
 
@ever1_needs_som1, there really isn't anyone I can trust. And even then, it's just my dad that's the problem and it was because he tried to get off of his anti-depressant. As for the cutting, I never did it, I was just sort of surprised to have the temptation.
 
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