The past 24 hours have been a complete roller-coaster. I started out yesterday morning feeling somewhat optimistic about the day, was fairly productive, then irritability and annoyance crept in that was so intense I couldn’t control my behavior. I ended up leaving the house so I wouldn’t take it out on my sweet boyfriend, and was able to calm down a little.
Then, it was back home and then out and about with Dad. I felt numb, detached. Either the meds or the mania are making me feel almost high. Everything is so vivid, my senses are painfully alive, and it’s almost like I’m having an out-of-body experience. I don’t remember much of what was said, but I do remember getting home and being really upset. I know that wasn’t Dad’s fault, that there wasn’t anything he did or said, it just was.
QoB came over after she was done at the shop, as she has been doing regularly since I started feeling bad (one of the few things that makes me feel better and sane). She explained a few things to dear, sweet boyfriend that hopefully made sense to him and as to why sometimes I act the way I act. God, I am so worried that he will leave me. He says he won’t, but this is so much to handle.
After that, dear sweet boyfriend made a fire and lit the grill. We had pork chops, asparagus, and baked potatoes. Very good. We then watched a movie and went to bed. That part of the evening was good. I went to bed feeling satisfied and somewhat at peace.
Now I’ve been up for an hour and I can’t stop crying. I fucking hate this. All over the place. I feel sad and anxious and racing. I feel angry and the most intense self-hatred. I need to get off my ass and take a Klonopin, but it’s almost like I feel like I deserve to feel like this. I need to get my shit together before dear sweet boyfriend gets out of bed.
I am unsure of my plans for the day. I know that we are going to drop off the two dog rescues this morning and pick up my CPAP supplies. Maybe we can do some driving around or go out to the lake. I need to feel better. I need to feel more in control of my emotions. I practice and practice my DBT skills but they do not always give me relief. I wish there was some quick and easy fix but I know there is not.
I really miss my sister and it makes me cry to think that I have disappointed her by taking this turn in my life, although I know deep in my head that she is not disappointed. I really want her acceptance and, although I know I have it, it feels like I am not worthy of it.
I just miss everyone in general. I still see QoB, dear sweet boyfriend, Big Dog, Dad but everyone else is missing. If I could be doing anything right now, it would be making pancakes with my sister, tucked away safe in her house in the big city, where no one knows my problems.
I just want some semblance of normalcy, whatever that might be. I want to not go from crying to angry to crying to overly happy (elevated) to depressed and back again. I want to feel stable for longer than two hours and I not feel like I am a burden on the people around me.
I can’t stand being around myself, so I don’t understand how anyone else can stand to be around me. So I worry that they will leave. I worry that dear sweet boyfriend will head out and never come back. I worry that I will alienate my friends and I will never hear from them. I know QoB and Big Dog will always be there, but I worry they will get so tired.
I’m sick to death of feeling this way. I don’t feel like I deserve the love of anyone, from my dog to dear sweet boyfriend to family. Sometimes this just hurts so much, its unbearable. I’m not getting ready to end my life or anything like that, but if I didn’t have the support system that I do, I’d have been dead long ago.
On that note, here I am, trying to stay alive, to make it through. To be ok. To not even be ok, but just to be.
Even though it doesn’t always feel this way, this is dear sweet boyfriend talking to me:
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