I keep dreaming about suicide.
In these recent dreams, I am always fighting myself.
I am filled with this immense anger and rage that roars through me, possessing every inch of my body.
It causes me to stick pins in my flesh and press sharp blades into my skin. I am trying to drown myself in the ocean, but I keep floating back to the surface for air. I try to jump out of a tall building. I never hit the ground, I only end up falling into an alternate reality.
I then attempt to pass my rage onto the objects around me, so I try throwing appliances and breaking windows only to realise I can fathom absolutely no strength in my limbs, and that I am completely and utterly helpless.
I try to cry, or scream out for help. But I am too weak to produce any tears and no words manage to escape my mouth.
They are really disturbing and draining. Considering I am not really suicidal in my waking life right now I am confused by these dreams.
In some of the dreams I am confronted with my abuser who is mercilessly slaughtering my dog, cat and family and there is nothing I can do to stop him. I can only watch as I am confronted with the most brutal pain I have EVER felt.
I wake up hysterical, my body trembling and my bedsheets soaked in my cold perspiration.
I try to repress all the emotions evoked by these dreams as I move through the motions of life, mostly I am separate from my body but I always find myself emerging into my human form and breaking down into tears at the most random intervals. I will be walking through the shopping center, or sitting in the car and suddenly I’ll be triggered slightly and I’ll return and start sobbing uncontrollably.
I am starting to feel overwhelmed. I have nobody to turn too. My therapist decided to close my file at the end of last year because she couldn’t help me anymore. I desperately need a psychiatrist because my medication is all fucked up again. I can’t even remember when I last took it as prescribed, but again I have absolutely no support systems in place to help me.
I haven’t been to therapy since I was in rehab in August last year. I have nobody else to confide in and my emotional state is eroding more each day. I am screaming silently for salvation, terrified to ask for help because I am afraid of everything. The only way I know how to get help is by acting out and losing control, resulting in sheer mayhem and chaos for myself and everyone around me, but at least at times like this I am heard.
Instead I seem to masquerade around presenting the illusion to everyone else that I am okay, when in reality I am lost.
I don’t want to intentionally be self destructive to get the help I require. In the past I would only act out because I was hurting, out of control and desperate and I never saw the negative implications of my behavior because of the pain I felt.
I feel I have more insight into my illness now and the implications my behaviour has upon the people who care for me. I don’t want to put everyone through that again.
I feel like I am too much of a burden for everybody and just because I am in pain, does not give me the right to act however I want.
I just continue to self medicate with an array of OTC and prescription medications and marijuana to cope with the sleepless nights and incessant anxiety I feel, but this cannot go on forever. I am exhausted.
I think I am just going to go to the doctor and when they ask me how they can help, I will just break down in tears and beg him/her for help.
I have never asked anybody for help like this before. I have never put myself out there like this and admitted I was feeling down or helpless, and admitted that I wanted help. I was always so defiant and would consistently refuse help and deny my problems in order to avoid confronting them.
I always thought that people would assume I just wanted attention or that nobody would care. I am desperate now though, and I really don’t want to end up locked in psychiatric wards or jail again because of my problems being left to spiral out of control.
I fucking hate feeling like this.