Hello there. You may remember me as the fairly young boy planning to commit suicide as soon as I reach the weekend. That was exactly one week ago. You may remember that the only person in the outside worldthat know of my suicidal thoughts and cutting is also the sole person I love. This was my undoing. Two days before I would hang myself, she stepped in an contacted the school guidance counselor. Naturally, this is a rather large issue, and long story short, my father, a police officer, picked me up from school and was require to Baker Act me. I was taken to a mental evaluation centre, after my whole family learned about my depression I had evidently hid so well from them. Everyone cried, including my dad. I had told them everything, and I would soon have to try and explain to psychologists. I was treated like bacteria under a microscope, or perhaps just another troubled child going though a phase. Yes, that is what I am, but phases fucking hurt. Anyhow, they did not keep me there, on a account that I had never displayed suicidal tendencies beforehand, although I have been suicidal several times. Of course, I wouldn’t tell them that if it means that I have to say tere for a few days. When I got home, my mother immediately started insulting and guilting me about my predicament. She took away all possible means of contacting the outside world, which evidently wasn’t enough, since I am writing this post. I think that the whole situation woke me up. It would have an impact on the people surrounding me if I had the chance to kill myself. I was in a state of limbo for the next few days, not quite happy, not quite sad, but not suicidal. Then I saw the girl again. I know it’s pathetic, but it hurts just as much as before, knowing that she loves someone else now. She reported me because that’s what any human being with half a brain would do, not because I matter to her. I don’t. I’ll stop rambling now, I suppose. As I was saying, I have slowly spiraled back downwards into depression. I feel as if somehow it is my fault that she evidently doesn’t love me anymore.
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I am actually rather proud of the fact that I am able to type this, as I have pilfered a first generation iPod Touch from the household. Nobody knows about it, curiously. It’s barely working, and it cannot text or download applications, but I have music and the Internet. Please excuse any typos, as the keyboard on this ancient device is really quite shabby.
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I have no idea why, but from what I’ve read here, the standard practice for a depression diagnosis is, “take the person and throw them in a room and isolate them.”
WHAT?
If anything, you’d need family. Friends. Supportive people.
I think a lot of people (myself included ) are afraid/hesitant/unwilling to tell family/friends/etc because of…exactly what you went through, really. People just go nuts and that’s hardly helping.
I forget the term… but they do stuff like that to trigger you, so they can observe your condition while it’s actually happening, rather than relying only on your verbal account of whatever experiences (which may or may not be accurate).
I am triggered by songs that hold meaning to me, or any song I can scavenge some deep metaphor from. Which, unfortunately, includes many songs, such as radio hits.
But they woulnt try that, besides, it’s not like I’ll burst into tears at the songs. I know how to hide emotion, of course.
Alas, I don’t know if I’m suicidal anymore. She can’t possibly care for me anymore, let alone love me, but if I die, I don’t know how it’ll affect people. Plus, if I fail, I’ll be locked up for quite a lot longer than three days.
same reason i had to stop listening to music entirely. What once was my sanctuary, became utterly unbearable.
Today would have been Kurt Cobain’s 47th birthday. (He was a musician who’s dead now).
I seem like a masochistic person. I stick with the woman I love, web though he hurts me, whether she tries to or not. Much like my music. It reminds me of her, which is good in some ways and hurts in others, but I listen anyway.
Honestly, being treated differently doesn’t even bother me too much.
I just want her to care about me again. Love would be nice, but we can’t have verything, can we?