braaaains i really hate feeling powerless to a mental illness. i really don’t want medication and i know i need to be in therapy. though i feel like every time i’ve gone, they aren’t really listening. however i worry that if i really said everything i wanted to and a therapist really did take it all in, that they would have me drugged up and locked away. ocd is a term that’s really thrown around a lot. everyone i meet is “ocd”. fuck you. no you’re fucking not. get inside my fucking brain and you will know what it’s like to not be in control of your actions. to check the lock on the door constantly every night. to have to rub the same spot on your neck until the skin is raw. to repeat the same “chant” all day and all night in your head in fear that terrible things will happen if you don’t. you will have to do everything is 4s. NEVER in 3s. you will make sure every last coin you see is heads up. everything you touch will be deliberate and all too thought out. you will attract attention. people will be polite and not say anything, just look at you like you’re off balance. well shit. i need some balance.
i know i wasn’t always like this. i remember it really starting when i was 13 or so. like really obsessive daily tasks. i feel like it went away for awhile. i wish i could pinpoint what started it and what made it dissipate and especially what made it start back up again with such a fury. i could make a few guesses.. but even with knowing, there does that get me? ok great, this thing happened and it made my brain all whackadoodle. that’s nice. now fix it. how do i stop doing these things? i tell myself all the time that i am stronger than my crazy. i look in the mirror before i go into work and say “just for today. let’s not be crazy”. it doesn’t work. i feel like someone else has taken over my brain and i’m just watching myself slip away. i worry that if something terrible did happen, god forbid, that i would descent into a madness that i couldn’t escape from. i need to escape now.
i want to be mentally and physically healthy for myself, but more than anything, i want to do it for my children. H is too young to see it (presumably), but I know T is so smart and she sees my habits. She tells me to stop sometimes.. she knows something isn’t right. I know what it’s like to grow up with a depressed mother and it’s crippling. I want my brain back. I love them too much to not be there for them 100%. i need to be well. i want to be well. i will be well.
natasha is the only person that read this. and that’s ok. <3
braaaains
i really hate feeling powerless to a mental illness. i really don’t want medication and i know i need to be in therapy. though i feel like every time i’ve gone, they aren’t really listening. however i worry that if i really said everything i wanted to and a therapist really did take it all in, that they would have me drugged up and locked away. ocd is a term that’s really thrown around a lot. everyone i meet is “ocd”. fuck you. no you’re fucking not. get inside my fucking brain and you will know what it’s like to not be in control of your actions. to check the lock on the door constantly every night. to have to rub the same spot on your neck until the skin is raw. to repeat the same “chant” all day and all night in your head in fear that terrible things will happen if you don’t. you will have to do everything is 4s. NEVER in 3s. you will make sure every last coin you see is heads up. everything you touch will be deliberate and all too thought out. you will attract attention. people will be polite and not say anything, just look at you like you’re off balance. well shit. i need some balance.
i know i wasn’t always like this. i remember it really starting when i was 13 or so. like really obsessive daily tasks. i feel like it went away for awhile. i wish i could pinpoint what started it and what made it dissipate and especially what made it start back up again with such a fury. i could make a few guesses.. but even with knowing, there does that get me? ok great, this thing happened and it made my brain all whackadoodle. that’s nice. now fix it. how do i stop doing these things? i tell myself all the time that i am stronger than my crazy. i look in the mirror before i go into work and say “just for today. let’s not be crazy”. it doesn’t work. i feel like someone else has taken over my brain and i’m just watching myself slip away. i worry that if something terrible did happen, god forbid, that i would descent into a madness that i couldn’t escape from. i need to escape now.
i want to be mentally and physically healthy for myself, but more than anything, i want to do it for my children. H is too young to see it (presumably), but I know T is so smart and she sees my habits. She tells me to stop sometimes.. she knows something isn’t right. I know what it’s like to grow up with a depressed mother and it’s crippling. I want my brain back. I love them too much to not be there for them 100%. i need to be well. i want to be well. i will be well.
natasha is the only person that read this. and that’s ok. <3