(here he goes again....)
Can't you spend a couple of days with a friend - or maybe the parents?
Have you told anyone about you having a plan? I mean - is there anyone who you know?
Talking will help you - having someone there - who you actually trust means a lot.
Your in a cocoon - I painted a picture in some other thread with some guy ready to kill himself - like we sometimes go through a phase in life - and we look and feel ugly - feel insecure and so on.
We are in a kind of cocoon. Your further ahead of me in that your almost a professional - qualified to save lives!!! You will so so damned good at it also! You know that.
So its not your life GS. I mean - yes, we can do what we want - but this 'free will' is not always going to mean we make a good choice. If you carry out your plan - you'll think nobody cares - but I wonder how many in the UK would be going to the funeral? I mean off here. I'd hate to actually meet you like that - I'd like to see you and a few other UK members on some meet up. The way things are we could hire a room in a pub - pretend to be some convention on blah - di - blah and all wear a little badge with our screen -name.
Bad as you feel right now - what's to say that you are not feeling a lot better before Christmas? You have good days - I've read about them and FEEL your zest for life as well as the horrible pain you are in.
I've laughed out loud at your wit - and been humbled by your compassion and am actually impressed by what you have done in your life. I wish I was like you in some ways instead of - well, just some unemployed lowlife who the government would murder with glee.
I think I'd be a good counsellor - like you were thinking you would be good. Hell - you thought you would rewrite the books! And you will if you live. you will change laws - kick ass for your clients - see them as a kind of family the way Sam sees you. I wish you had a friend or two like her - and you would NOT be planning things.
Bad as things have been for you - I think it was fated that way - and for me also. We go through these horrible experiences and it does make us stronger and a lot wiser. You will recover - and I'm telling you - you'll pass your exams and get qualifications.
Somewhere out there - in this world - right now, some child is being abused. Some house - parents drugged up and drinking - 'poverty' because the parents don't buy books for the children. Maybe some sick uncle doing things for which he should be given therapy - and then machine gunned.
You KNOW the abuse out there - the hurt and pain people go through.
You also know there is love out there also. Right?
I rarely ever cry - but I am now? [almost]
Well - I guess its a mixture of knowing how great your life could be - and knowing how you cannot see it.
But I won't give up.
I will keep replying - and I don't expect answers in detail until one day when you actually do wake up - feel like dying, but by the time your out of the shower, dressed - you might even smile. Or feel 'alright'. Or not so bad!
A good day is all you need to make you realise that you should actually be phoning up a few people here - and they can phone you. I offered but sure - I know I might seem a bit loud or whatever. I'm a guy also - that angle has to be looked at - by any woman with sense - and you have buckets full of that. I'm just trying to be nice - actually am 'nice' - and if you ever want to talk I can listen. In real life - I actually always let people talk - and listen. I learn little from me! But I amuse myself sometimes. It has to be part of recovery to do that so I am sticking with that angle.
You got the offer GS to phone - and I hope others have especially other woman who have been were you are. Now they are - married - dancing with joy over a husband who is the virtue of all things wonderful! lol - well, some guy on a sofa who sometimes says "where is the remote control"
I'm trying to bring some levity to you. I know humour sometimes seems very annoying when depressed - but - it has to be said - a good laugh is better for you than meds.
Even a ghost of a smile is something.
OR - just thinking about something different.
So - I'll continue to try and be the defence counsel in this trial for your life. I'm not being offhand - I feel you have few people right now to be that defence counsel - who make you realise that you deserve to live.
In the cocoon - we do fear the loud bright world we have to survive in once we emerge. We fear flying - we might fall - our wings are easily torn and predators hunt us.
But you got to fly. We were born for this. We're social creatures GS - you know that and maybe you feel ashamed because its so very hard to actually socialise when depression unleashes the 'dark side'
I do have a few friends here now - people I actually like - people who impress me with their own progress - and encourage me. When I get my home phone it will be cheap for me to take and make calls. Free on weekends. So I do hope to be able to help with that - and hopefully will have some more good news in a week or so - as I might be able to help the forum more.
I was like you. In fact - the depression side of you - me and everyone is not really us. We emerge from the cocoon and realise that. My technique is not rocket science - no meds, no counsellors, crisis teams or anything. But who knows - bad luck might happen to me - I might be posting about a plan and you will be well - and I know you'd certainly reply if I said I was going to kill myself tonight.
So - there's me - a type-a-thon, a festival of words - and your someone who could be a friend. I know your kind of cutting off ties in your own mind - you don't want me popping up to say much - but a part of you welcomes it.
Good luck - God bless and I hope you each a stage were you say to yourself that you will try again - revise things, look at every area of life and adjust the ones not conducive to well-being. Across the board - diet, exercise, family ties if any - repair some friendships, get that study sorted !!!!
You know the things which made you happy once are still there.
My best wishes as ever.
Get well - soon.
Flush whatever meds combination you have been told about and have acquired and are keeping. I know all those methods - a regular walking encyclopaedia. But I keep it to myself.
Or I might email politicians with top advice on successful ways to pop their cork.
Hmmmm.....
Dear Mr Prime Minister,
Sir!
Thanks for reading my letter regarding injustice.
I actually coated this letter in a combination of cyanide and a chemical which allowed it to enter the pores of your miserable skin.
To wit, I have poisoned you,
Thanks for reading. Oh, and that's the 20 seconds up!
5-4-3-2-1 - ooops, your dead.
My!
Oh dear!
Enjoy hell ass****!
Regards and consolations.