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May 4, 2009 at 6:40 pm · Filed under My Stories, self-injury and tagged: anger, coping mechanisms, flashbacks, self-injury, suicide
I need advice and help. I can’t talk to anyone. Therapy has gotten too hard for anyone to understand, and when I try to share, I can’t explain in any way that can be meaningful to others. Or in a way that helps them support me. I’m stuck in the chaos of my head alone. I’ve had to swear to myself to “be normal” and not talk about this to them anymore.
This is partly why I haven’t been here lately.
I’ve also truly learned what “fair-weather friend” means. And how that shatters ability to trust.
It’s no one’s fault – I know how complicated this is, and I know how fucked up I am. Shit from my head has started to come out first person and I am starting to lose it. Finally the way they advise in therapy, lowering the wall, is just leaving me in confusion, chaos and rage.
I need advice. Wednesday AM, I have to get on a plane for a trip to see family – haven’t been there in a while. They don’t know anything. It will be 24/7 – I am sleeping on their couch. Last time I was there, I was just “really tired” from a conference I’d just come from in the same town. I felt so fake. You guys know how this goes with all the threads of thought.
I am already going nuts and don’t think I can be “happy normal” for 4 days. I am self-injuring with the stress of the trip and with my own rage inside. Today was horrible. Tomorrow is my birthday and it will suck. I just need to somehow get through Sunday.
Right at this moment, trying to formulate these thoughts, is the most rational I have been able to achieve in more than a day.
Probably because I just realized that you all are the only ones I can truly talk to, and who can truly understand.
I am losing my ability to dissociate and “be normal” and fake it.
I don’t know if it is even possible for me to find a way to even partly enjoy this trip, but 4 days of being fake to hide, I don’t know. I’ve used that strategy a lot in the past, but don’t think it’s going to work this time.
Advice please.
May 4, 2008 at 4:03 pm · Filed under Therapy and Treatment, Understanding DID and tagged: DID, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, ego state, flashbacks, in-patient, multiple personality disorder, multiplicity, PTSD, self-injury, shame, therapy
I hate that word, “Disorders.” But the name is less relevant than the fact that at least part of the medical profession acknowledges it.
I have been researching specialized treatment for abreactive work. In-patient programs for trauma. Let’s talk about some of these facilities and what the offer.
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