Bear with me, I haven’t done this before. I don’t even know why I’m doing this. Basically, I have nothing to live for. That’s the basics. I’m 21, I have no family, due to severe abuse in my childhood, and since I was 10 I have suffered from mental health issues. I overdosed many times and started self harming. At 14 I was put in care, and had to go to a young people’s mental health unit for 4 years. Since leaving there I have always been very up and down but last July it got worse, and I tried killing myself through overdose. Didn’t work, as you can tell. This past year has been hell. Literally. Every minute physically pains me to get through, let alone every hour, every day… I have started self harming again and 2 weeks ago I took another overdose. Once again, I failed. I can’t even do this properly. So I’ve searched the web, and come up with hanging myself. Someone said to me the other day, maybe you don’t want to die, maybe you just want the pain to stop. No, this isn’t the case. I want to die. I don’t want anything. I’ve been fighting to keep going for 11 years, over half of my life. And I literally have no fight left in me. I don’t even want to try, because I always seem to end up here, feeling this way. I feel so worthless, empty, and disgusting. And I genuinely think enough is enough. I have just been diagnosed with bipolar, and its possible I have Borderline Personality Disorder. I’m just lost. Here but not here. Watching people living their lives, while I am merely existing. This isn’t a life. I have no family, I have few friends, my past haunts me even now. And it shouldn’t. I should be over it by now. But I’m not. God this probably doesn’t even mae sense, my head feels so fuzzy, all my thoughts entangled. Sorry.
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“I’m just lost. Here but not here. Watching people living their lives, while I am merely existing. This isn’t a life.”
– sounds like the exact things I’ve said many times. I suffer from physical pain, though, so that’s why I feel I’m merely existing. If I wasn’t in constant pain, maybe I could actually go back to “living” and enjoy life. But I wonder once one’s mind travels down this path, is it at all possible to return? Once one thinks this way, feels as though they understand the world for all the pain it really causes, is it even possible to go back?
I wish you didn’t have to feel the way you do. I wish your life could have turned out differently, as I wish mine did too. At least here, on tihis site, we find we are not alone.
I totally understand. Im 36 and had repressed that I had been abused for that past 28yrs. Started when 8 and finished when I was 12, guess they didn’t like secondary school children. I say they as i had 2 non family members abuse/ toture/ control me.
You are not alone though as I once thought I was. I have pushed the self destruct button on EVERY single relationship I have ever had before my secret came out. I was diagnosed with Complex PTSD as a result of the abuse, which as a healthcare practitioner, I know can be easily mis-diagnosed as a personality disorder.
I am struggling too, very much so with flashbacks and nightmares but I’m still here…just! I set up a group on FBook called Survivors of Childhood Abuse if your interested in having a look…
Find some kind of peace my friend…