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What now?

July 2nd, 2009

The past 18 months have been difficult. Lost allot of things, cars, house, jobs, wife miscarried etc. Then in March my wife’s email was open and saw that she was into a couple of online relations with other guys. They were pretty explicit. One was local and they had made arrangements to meet. I called her on it. At first she lied about it, then came clean. We discussed it. I forgave her but can’t get it out of my head. Our relation ship was the last failure that broke my back. Life just seems to be unbearable. I love my wife very much and was the only person I really trusted. Not now. I feel like a paranoid husband. Always wondering.  Can’t talk to her. Each time I do I feel like I’m the one that fucked up. Few weeks after my discovery I found a cable to string my self up by and was writing a letter to my little girl.  This was the first time I decided to go through with it. It was the thought of my daughter that kept me from swinging from the back porch that night. Now there are days on my long commute to work I just pray for an accident, a head on a 2 lane road to work, blow out sending me off the cliff into the river. Maybe be on my way home I’ll stop by the local bridge here and swan dive into rocks below. I don’t like being here. I don’t like me. I have failed as a father, son and a husband. I have a brother that tried to commit suicide when he was in high school and I was in the military. Had his wounds kept bleeding while he slept he was have succeeded. I understood why he did it. He didn’t want to be a failure. I had been there. We have the same mom and I don’t like her very much. Long story behind that. Now I really don’t know what to do. Recently I had been working in a gun store and wanted to put one to my head and finish it. I guess it’s a good thing the shop had been out of ammo for a while. As for help….well there is a double whammy for me. Getting help will hurt my chances for employment the with Gov’t. Can’t get a clearance if you want to expire. They will ask and I can’t lie about it. I need the job in the worst way. Then again with my current employer I have life insurance and my family will be covered if I have an “accident”. Some days are great. Others days the pain is unbearable. Things like this have happened all my life but I really feel like I am at a end. 38 years and I didn’t want to find my self here. I really don’t know what to do. I’ll just know when I do.

Damn good thing it isn’t a crime
I’ve got a dirty dirty gun up against my head
Cleanse and purge the ill from the inside
A burning conscience severs the stem

-STatic X

The song about sums it up for me.

Nothingness

July 2nd, 2009

It’s not that I feel too much. . . it’s that I feel nothing.

Better next time

July 2nd, 2009

I’ve been my practically my whole life in fear and revulsion of gays. Growing up, I never knew why I  never knew why I hated them so much, especially older, white gays. Whenever they were around me, I would start sweating heavily and try to get away. If I couldn’t get away, if for example I had to attend a meeting and they were there, I would look for trouble and try to antagonise them. This is not in my nature, so I couldn’t understand what was wrong with me. I knew it wasn’t some latent homosexuality in me, because what they did disgusted me and I always thought if I was ever raped, I would go on a rampage and kill as many of them as I could before taking my own life. Luckily for me, very few coloureds are gay, so growing up, I hardly had any contact with them: but I got the shock of my life when I went to live and work in Cairo for a few years. I met lots of foreigners from first world countries while I was there, and of all the white men I met, either through work or socialising, only 2 of them were straight!! Even towards the end of my stay there, when I mixed mostly with locals, I found that because of the society that exists there, many of the young Egyptian men and boys would do gay things to each other, and with these white gays, who I figured came to Egypt specifically for this reason. Everyone who lives there knows that it is rampant, but nobody speaks about it, because according to their religion, it is taboo. So, as you can guess, I spent the last few months in Egypt either alone at the sites or socializing with the few foreign female friends that I had made in my four years there. I also never understood why sex was the most important thing to almost all of my friends, here in Cape Town and over there. It was as if they were obsessed with getting more and more partners all the time. Everything they did in their lives was about trying to get a girl, fuck her and then brag about it. When I was interested, I would try my luck; but most of them worked and schemed and bought things, solely to get women in bed and talk shit about them afterwards. Coming back from Egypt, I also realised that many of our women here are also obsessed with having sex as many times as they could get away with. I knew that if ninety five percent of the people that I knew, were like that, then there had to be something wrong with me. I tried to rationalise and convice myself that maybe one third of us was straight, another third gay, and the other third, like me, just not bothered and even turned off of anything sexual, just so that I could feel that I wasn’t the only one: but I knew deep down that I was just fooling myself. There was definitely something very wrong with me; but I didn’t know what or why. I saw a doctor, thinking there was something physically wrong with me; but everything was fine, so it had to be a psychological problem. I tried finding out by reading books on mental illnesses and psychological problems; but in my memory nothing really traumatic happened to me that could have caused this disinterest in sex. Don’t get me wrong, I like the company of women, and I’m not scared of them or of being rejected; but the moment they allow me to do something sexual, even as small as allowing me to touch their breast, I would lose interest and in many cases respect for them for allowing me to do that. The loathing and anger I felt at myself, knowing that they were not the problem; but yet still hurt them just for showing interest in me, caused me to become more and more withdrawn and at really bad times, planning my suicide, because I couldn’t see any happiness for me in a relationship at any point in the future and therefore there was no future for me, if this is how it must be. The only thing that brought some semblance of joy, was my interest in ancient cultures and philosophy, in fact I over-compensated with these interests for lack of interest in sex. Such was my life, until about three years ago, when I finally understood why, yet wishing that I never found out; because knowing the root cause of my psychological problems, was much worse.                                                                                                              I was sitting outside of the library, on a bench under a tree eating a sandwich, in one of my rare moments of relative peace, reading a book on self-hypnosis to reveal suppressed memories. Further away, there’s a short bridge over a thin stream, and crossing the bridge, was this old, white piece of shit, walking very slowly in my direction. The fucker was busy watching two young coloured boys with their parents, having their lunch next to the stream. The way he was looking at them, was with almost total concentration; but he kept walking to where I was sitting, and I immediately knew what this cunt was thinking, because I remembered this fucks’ face from when I was eight years old. I’ll never forget his face and I hope to see it in hell one day. Everything came back to me from that day, like a hard smack in my face, and I couldn’t move or speak as the motherfucker came to sit right next to me on the bench, still watching these young boys intently. I wanted to fuck him up, kill him even. As I’ve said, these thoughts are not in my nature; But this was one life I would take and make him fucking suffer badly, even if he is probably in his seventies by now. I’ll have no pity and laugh and spit in his face; while causing him severe pain until he fucking dies. The shit doesn’t even deserve death, just anguish for what he did to me and probably many other young boys. But that day, I couldn’t even move, and I’m sitting there, knowing what the fucker’s thinking, even now, almost 30 years after he violently raped me, repeatedly. I remembered everything that happened that day, even the before and after, is like something that happened only yesterday. I remember the confusing, disgusting things he said to me and the threat he made about cutting my dick off and keeping it in a bottle, the metal taste of the coke he gave me, the black worker who caught him, but could do nothing because of the apartheid laws which only served the whites, even the two rand he gave the black guy to take me to the street and point me to the station. I walked in the street next to the railway line with blood running down my legs, walking past all these white people who saw my pain, but did fucking nothing. That day was the first time I ever saw white people in the flesh, before that was only in magazines and on tv, where they are portrayed as being so good and nice, those fucking people I now knew were pure evil. As coloured and black people, we were not allowed in the Cape Town CBD, except if we were sent there by whites to do something or fetch something; but what the fuck did I know about this fucked up adult world. All I wanted to do was to walk around the place I was born in and see these supposed angelic whites. I guess curiosity killed the cat. That was 1979 when I walked the loneliest, longest, most painful road I ever took, from Cape Town to Salt River at age eight. All innocence brutally ripped out of my life. I was always filled with love and wonder before then, but these fucking South African whites made sure that ended on the first day I met them. They don’t even fucking belong here. My land, my body, raped by these fuckers. In my memory before I saw that piece of shit at the library, I remembered clearly only what happened after I got to our old neighbours’ house, as if my brain tried to over-compensate the fact that the earlier memories of that day had to be suppressed. I clearly remembered the dark colour of the bath water they washed me in, the food they gave me, even how strangely quiet they were while we were eating. I remember falling asleep there and waking up at home. They didn’t tell my parents, because after I saw that cunt at the library, my piles got so bad, I had to go for an emergency operation and, because I was struggling to deal with the physical and emotional pain, I decided to tell someone about my secret and that was my mother. She told me that they never knew. I now understand where my anger against gays, my need for revenge against whites, my self-hate and destructive habits, and my over-protectiveness over youngsters stem from. I’ve read in these psychiatric books that in many cases a victim of child abuse becomes an abuser himself and so the cycle continues; but as someone who has worked with youngsters before, I’ve felt no sexual attraction towards them, rather I feel that I want to protect them like a father and even die for them. Honestly, there were a few teens who I thought was sexually attractive; but the moment I got to know them, I felt disgusted with myself for being attracted to girls who were more than twenty years younger than me. Maybe this not as rare as I thought, because now that I’m older, many men my age, and even much oldermake no secret about feeling that way about them and would jump at the chance. Consciously, and probably sub-consciously, I would try and bait and trap men who I thought were capable of doing what that sick fuck did to me, and I found that in life and in cyberspace, they can easily get what they want, and get away with it. Child trafficking probably makes more money for the criminals than drug and gun trafficking, and sites that have images and video’s of youngsters are probably the biggest money-makers on the internet. In my search for something, really anything that could turn me on and keep my interest, I came upon many dodgy sites that give links to some really sick shit. In the news we read about child rapes and murders almost every day. Sometimes I feel that that cunt should have just killed me afterwards, to save me from all this unnecessary shit, and that I would be living in another life, another body and that I would have at least a chance at happiness. I’m sure if he did do that, nothing would have happened to him, because in those years who cared about a dead, raped coloured boy? They would just look after their own and he would just continue in his evil ways; but at least I would be free from all this shit that I’m living through now. Unfortunately, I’m still here. Damaged goods. Maybe psychiatrists or hypnotists can make me forgetagain, before I finish what that fucking shit started so long ago and just end it all, start over, try again, and hopefully have no sick fuck messing up that life as well. Sorry for all the swearing; but thanks for listening. I feel a bit better for putting this shitty life story out there, hopefully it won’t last much longer than this. Thanks again. Goodbye.

A time to cut

July 2nd, 2009

I just woke up and i already feel like shit im going to slice my arm here in a bit NO ONE REALLY CARES ANYMORE IF THEY EVEN DID EVER CARE IN THE FIRST PLACE MY UNCLE KILLED HIM SELF LAST NIGHT HE HAD THE POWER TO DIE SO DO I

The Phone Call That Saved My Life

July 2nd, 2009

It was a rainy May morning, and my parents were both at work. My brother was at school, and I had decided to stay home because my stomach felt queasy. As soon as I logged onto Yahoo, I noticed my twin sister and best friend, Dena, was on too. She must have stayed home also. My parents had just had ANOTHER huge argument before they left the house. They don’t get along too well, and they’re getting a divorce in August. Anyway, all I knew was that my life wasn’t worth living, and I wanted to end it. No one but Dena cared about me, not even my parents. They just fought with each other all the time. I had decided. I was just going to end it all and kill myself. I thought about how I would do it for a while. I finally settled on pills. I took the box of pills from the bathroom and set it next to me as I wrote my suicide note. Suddenly, my cell phone vibrated in my back pocket. Now, I ALWAYS answer my phone, no matter what. So of course, I tugged it out of my pocket and answered. “Hullo?”   ”Hi Bri Bri!” Dena’s voice said. I smiled slightly. “So what are you doing?” she asked. I glanced at the pills sitting on my desk. “Uh,nothing much,” I lied. I felt terrible lying to my sister, but I felt I had to. She is suicidal and a cutter also, so I didn’t want to put her in  a sad mood. Dena and I talked for a while, and over the course of that conversation, I put the pill box back into the bathroom. I knew that Dena loved me, and my parents loved me, even if it was just a little bit. I truly believe that one phone call saved my life.

Suicide young prefromers

July 2nd, 2009

 The very first time i had ever cut  my self on purpose was when i was 11 with a shaving razzor I saw my sister that was visiting from Tennessee kissing my nieghbor and i dont know why I felt even that young that cheating on someone was and is wrong but i remembered my brother telling me something about cutting helps some times so i grabed my dads shaving razzor and broke it apart and started cutting downward pretty deep it stang for a while and kept stinging for days but after i thought about it in some way it did help so i kept doing it.People ask me how can it help i tell them it bleeds out the bad pain i have inside me.I saw a guy on tv that said that he was not upset that he was burned so bad but that he could not describe how it felt to be burn for so long.I thought how could you not describe it so i found my brother’s lighter and lit it for a while like 15 min’s i thought it was going to run out of gas then i held it on my arm tell it stoped burning when i pulled it off so did some skin it was all bubblely and nasty bloody.I would describe it as refreshing it may sound wierd but it truely was im going to take some photo’s so if you email me i’ll show anyone who wants to see just ask my email is meinreichistwunderbar@gmail.com

veteran

July 1st, 2009

I’ve only read a few days of posts, & I’m kinda hesitant to add mine, but here goes…I can remember when I was happy last-up until the day my mom pushed me away when I was giving her a hug, saying my sister was wondering if I was a lesbian. I might have been 8. After that I dreamed of being away-camping somewhere & I would lay in the backyard going thru catalogs for the gear I’d need.  I always used to have so much love I couldn’t contain it.  Within a couple yrs I climbed to the patio porch & threatened to jump.  I don’t really remember who was there, or what the reaction was, just the anger I felt.

I started cutting my wrists about 14 or so, as I was trying to get the nerve to go deep.  I couldn’t do it, tho, so I decided to use pills.  Knew mom had Demerol for her kidney stones-never found them. to this day I have no idea where she keeps them.  All I could find was aspirin & cold pills, so I tried that-no go. Just felt queasy for a few hours. After, the thought of pills made me sick & I got the idea of liquid meds.  Liquid Tylenol should work, right?  Acetominophen antitoxin is the worst! Got scared & called a hotline-they traced the number & called back, mom had got home & she answered! They’d already sent out the police & an ambulance. So that was my first taste of rescue, complete with 3 days in the hosp having to drink a concoction that smelled worse than rotten eggs!  Not my last, but never again wih Tylenol! After that it became Sominex from the drugstore, & never at home!  I’d get on a bus & ride, then go into a store, buy a drink, use their restroom to take the pills-still extremely difficult-then just walk the street-but I was still scared to go alone & called the hotline; I didn’t think they could trace a pay phone…WRONG!  I was almost gone when the police got there, had slipped down in the booth-anyone remember those? or even payphones?-& wedged the door shut with my nearly unconscious body-but they managed to get me to the hospital in time. Stomache pump for that. 

Anyway, from 16 to 19 I was in & out of psych wards.  Meds didn’t help me much-still don’t-but I’ve stayed alive.  I do know a number of people who did eventually find the right meds & did fine.  Maybe the many, many, many pill OD’s built up my immunity, but I think I had a natural immunity anyway.  Over the years I’ve tried so many meds, I don’t know their names.  In ‘02, I underwent surgery to implant a VNS.  The research was promising for treatment resistant depression, & my hopes were high.  Took longer than I’d hoped, but after a few yrs I felt better for awhile.  THAT’S my problem-FOR A WHILE.   ‘For a While’ has gotten me thru 30+ yrs, but as each new treatment fails, I’m more ready to say ’screw it’.  Adding major health problems & disability, I just want to sleep…….

Boredom is death

July 1st, 2009

Hey,

I haven’t posted here before.  Actually, I feel a bit out of place among all the angst-filled teenagers and people who have real problems and shit like that.  What’s my problem?  Hard to put down in words, I guess, though I spend a lot of time trying to do it.  I’m 33, I’ve lived a comfortable, middle-class life with kind, if emotionally-distant, parents.  Did well enough at school.  Went on to university.  Expected to “achieve” something.  But, really, something was wrong from the start.  I write this, because, I don’t know, maybe there are other people in my situation out there.  But, I don’t know, I seem to have been, virtually since birth, unable to find any kind of joy or direction or purpose in life. 

So what am I doing on this site, you may ask?  I have no crippling emotional pain, no traumas to overcome, I just, with every day, as I wake up, ask myself, what the hell do I have to live for?  And I don’t mean that in the “Oh, what glories do I have to be grateful for?” kind of way.  It’s just, ever since I can remember, I have hated myself, and been bored to distraction with life and everything it has to offer.  And it’s not like I haven’t tried to find something to like–I’ve tried it all, well, inasfar as I’m willing to.  I just think I was born half-dead and there’s nothing I can do about it.

Sure, as a teenager, and later, even now, actually, I’ve gone down the self-destruction route.  Drugs, drinking, underachieving, self-mutilation, bad relationships.  None of it really did anything for me.  Later I tried the self-improvement–higher education, travel, blah, blah, blah.  But I still wake up every morning just hoping that today’s the day that I have enough courage to finally off-myself and be done with this miserable farce of a life I’ve been living.

So, I guess, I’m getting to the end of the line of things.  Drugs, therapy, don’t bother suggesting it, I’ve done it, and, yes, when I’ve been in cataclysmic depressions, they’ve helped me get back to my baseline, but what am i supposed to do when my baseline is so far from anything I want to continue existing at?  I ride the train, every day, and I look at the people sitting and standing around me, and I try to look inside them, and figure out what it is that makes them want to keep on living, and although I can imagine–family, friends, careers, maybe what they’re going to have for dinner–I’m just having a difficult time mustering up the enthusiasm for much more of this pointlessness.  But, until I get a proper backbone, I know I’m not going to be able to kill myself, which makes it all so much more depressing.  Why perpetuate such a useless, unwanted life?

I have a friend who’s going through a real crisis at the moment, and he has, on more than one occasion, invited me to join him in a suicide pact, but I always defer, and end up trying to talk him out of it.  But why?  That’s all I want to know, I guess.  Why should I have to go on living, if life no longer offers anything promising or interesting to me?  If it never did?  Am I the only one who is so tediously bored with this supposedly joyous and wondrous gift of existence that we’ve been granted?   When can I say when? 

That’s all.  It just need to be said.

Helpless.

July 1st, 2009

I don’t know what to do anymore. Last night I sat there in my room in my closet with the scissors to my wrist cutting.. not very deep. and i just kept imagining me going a little bit deeper and slowly dying. I don’t WANT to do. I want to escape what I’m feeling and I can’t find a way to do that, my only outlet is death. I try so hard to be stable it’s like I’m either SUPER happy, SUPER sad, or SUPER something and all I do is get yelled at for it by my mother. I’m trying so hard I don’t know what to do anymore. I want to be happy.. so badly. I just can’t be. Last night I cried my self to sleep. And this morning I didn’t want to wake up. I hurt so bad on the inside, i can barely feel anymore. I put myself down every day I always blame myself and treat myself like shit, and I CAN’T stop. I’m not sure why exactly I do it either. I’m totally confused and need to find refuge in something, ANYTHING. I feel so helpless. I don’t know what to do. Every day I get yelled at by my mother or crapped on by my “friends” there’s no use in me being here any more. I hate this, so fucking much.

I’m Helpless At This Point

July 1st, 2009

I really can’t take this anymore. I’m sorry to all of you who take offense to me, since you all have real legitimate problems that I want to help you with if it weren’t for my own selfishness and self loathing got in the way. I’m sorry.

I hate my family. I always try to see the good in people rather than be a total pessimist, but I am always proved wrong. I hate how my father comes home everyday piss drunk. I hate how my little brother is treated like a king when he acts like an asshole 24/7. I hate how my older brother doesn’t give a shit about how horrible and disgusting his girlfriend is. I hate how my parents are bona-fide neat freaks, and they make m mop something almost 10 times a day even though my hands are calloused and bloody from ringing out the mop. I hate how my mother makes me  weigh myself everyday, and how she claps and is estatic when I gain weight. And you know what really gets me? Is that they look at me with the same (if not more) hate that I look at them with. It puzzles me when my brothers friends come over and never want to leave. I just look at them thinking you dumbasses! don’t you know this is the seventh circle of hell?  Sometimes I even laugh because they really have no clue. And I pity them for that.

I will apologize once again for how utterly ungrateful you all probably think I’m being.

My future seems to get considerably darker every day. I don’t see myself graduating high school or college or even getting a job. Hell, I don’t even  see myself losing my virginity. I don’t see myself doing any of those things because my everyday life is a constant reminder that I can’t. So I’ve come up with a plausable solution for all of this. I have my death planned down to the T, and it sounds extremely wonderful:

First, I will ask my mother if a day could be ‘Peaches Day’ (its what my family does for one certain person of the family; its like a birthday) and she will say yes. When my day comes, I will wear all my gorgeous dresses that I sewed myself but never had the confidence to wear; my whole family will dress up too (all in black, preferably). We will go have dinner and they will give me presents and i will be smiling with happiness because I know that I won’t have to endure this bullshit any longer. I don’t have to see my family lie through their teeth anymore when they say how proud they are of me. During dinner I will look at my parents and tell them how my brothers girlfriend molested me for over a year and how supid they were. They will be shocked and start crying and yell at my brother (or not) and i will just sit there smiling and eating my food, knowng it is only a matter of time. The rest of the night will consist of arguing between my parents and my brother, so I will have to the oppurtunity to slip away and go to a huge field of flowers not too far away. It’s there that I will swallow my bag of aspirin and down my bottle of soda, and just sigh with relief and happiness.

This may not all pan out the way I wanted too, but I will try my best. I was obssesed with fairy tales as a little kid, so it makes sense that I want my death to be a bit fairy tale-ish.

I apologize once again.

Sincerely,

Peaches