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ICU

Want to sleep

by impossible_girl 3/15/2015

written by impossible_girl

I look at the shoebox I keep my various prescription pill bottles in, and I wish to gods I could be certain that I wouldn’t just wake up in a day, in three days, in a week in the local ICU and another useless stay in the mental health unit and another 90-day court settlement. Attempting suicide is a civil offense in Wisconsin, you see, so a person already upset because they survived then gets to go — via satellite television — before a judge and work out an agreement for treatment. Nice, huh?

I barely talked my psychiatrist out of having me hospitalized […]

3/15/2015 4 comments

ICU

by scartopia 3/14/2015

written by scartopia

Emergency surgery

Just another emergency surgery

3/14/2015 1 comment

the things we do just to keep ourselves alive.

by dayoldhate 12/22/2012

written by dayoldhate

I can’t get this feeling to go away. I feel bitter, I feel lost, I feel helpless..Â I want to drink myself into a coma. I try so hard to make everyone happy even though everything is literally falling apart all around me. My best friend’s sister died 3 months ago in a drunk driving accident, she was 19. Â even though we weren’t that close, she was still like an older sister to me. and I have never seen someone so young and so beautiful be so still and so lifeless. she didn’t even look like herself at all.. it haunts me everyday, all I can […]

12/22/2012 1 comment

Not Expected to Live

by fightingforlife 6/3/2011

written by fightingforlife

In July 2009, my mum heard the words no mother ever wants to hear “Your daughter is in ICU. She’s not expected to live.” Almost 2 years later, I am still alive, but my mum is not. Talk about irony. I had landed in ICU (for the second time in 18 months) after taking an overdose of my anti-psychotic medication, Seroquel. I remained in ICU on life support for 48 hours, and then spent a further 2 days in hospital under close observation and on IV anti-biotics after contracting pneumonia from the breathing tube.
I had my reasons for wanting to end my life, but […]

6/3/2011 4 comments