Well it has been a long time coming. I went to the doctor for some drugs. I have felt this way for so long and kept it very closed off from everyone. It took a lot to make me realize how messed up I am right now.
People always just said I was quiet; shy and reserved. In school I know that most assumed I was a snob or stuck up. I am so not, but I come across that because I can’t ever get a damn word out when I am spoken to. I get all hot and flushed. I look at the floor. I twist my hair. I must look like an idiot. A silly little girl.
I can’t make any friends. I have made a few, but after a month or two I tell them that I basically don’t want to be their friend anymore. I have hurt every friend I ever had. I drop them suddenly just forget about them when they get to close for comfort. And I think I am doing it on purpose. They just always fall in love with me. Not in a romantic sense, but they smother me. Once I open up to someone they always seem to think I am there new best friend. Which I love for a short while, but then I want someone new to worship me. I am so terrible. I am always complaining that I have no friends... hmmmm I wonder why.
I am not a mean person though. I love people. Really I do. But I can never get up to leave the house. I agonize over it. Going to the grocery store is the highlight of my week. And even then I must look so stupid. I need to do my makeup and look all cute. What the hell for? I know I don’t need to impress anyone! But it makes me feel better about the whole situation...
Funny thing is everyone thinks I am so normal. I am so good at pretending by now. It started when I was 13 so I have had a lot of practice at getting out of situations and seeming normal at the same time. It works. I have so many excuses.
I guess the worst thing is that I want to be normal so very badly. I want to be able like myself and feel good. I want to be able to talk to another girl without analyzing her every word and gesture. Thinking she is better than me, prettier or smarter or skinner. I want to be able to go on one car ride without having visions of my inevitable death in a horrendous car crash. I want to go one day without just knowing that my baby will be blue and cold when I go into to check on her at nap time. I want to stop my irrational fear that a demon will pop out from underneath my bed at night and pull me under. Or that a rapist will break down my door and murder my entire family. I want to stop saying "I hate you" in my head when ever my husband makes the tiniest mistake. I want to stop seeing the words divorce, in big red bloody letters, in my head, cutting in to me. I want to stop thinking about how I will die. Thinking about the worst possible ways it might happen.
I am not suicidal though. I am scared to die. It just feels like something terrible is bound to happen to me. So many bad things happen every day. My life is screwed up in many ways, but there is so many more things that could happen. And they are out of my control. I guess I feel like if I think of every possibility then there is less of a chance they could come to be. But it is silly I know. I am scared of ghosts and demons capturing me.... why don’t I just grow up!!!
I hope the medicine will help me. I don’t like drugs. I used to smoke weed as a teenager and it made me happy for a while until I got the worst panic attacks of my life and thought that I couldn’t breath anymore. I know this won’t be just like that. But I don’t like to depend on anything out side of myself. But I know I need to give it a try for my families sake. At this point I don’t even know if it could get much worst.
The thing is I don’t even know what you would call my problems. I am only depressed some of the time. Sometimes I feel great. Whenever I go out of my house is mainly when I feel like a freak that should crawl under a rock. I am pretty good at home, but I am so mean to my husband at times, others I am a perfect submissive little wife. I just want to be the best woman in the word. Better than anyone else. I get so mad though. About small things, like him leaving his socks in the living room. I am a clean freak But I do love him and I am glad that he can still love me after all we have been through. I don’t understand how he does it.
That’s all the venting I can handle for now. This is the first day of meds so I can’t wait to see if they make a difference. I sure hope so.