To Moving On
My thoughts in a blog as I slowly recover from a mental breakdown a few months ago. A breakdown caused by ignoring my issues for over 20 years.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Been a while
Good morning, myself
It's been a while. Like a year plus, you've through a lot; I thought we were doing better, but we starting to relapse.
The flu season has been a bad one, you've been deathly ill a lot. And more than likely your going to lose your job in a few weeks.
More importantly even though Callie, who we'll need to discuss later, came back those viscious, dangerous thoughts have started to return. Honestly, wanting to roll your car to get sympathy from your love ones and a way to get out of loosing your job?
I'm better than this. This was supposed to stop after I lost my job at Mercy. The only job I've ever wanted as a career, at least since college. Why am I still resisting getting my license back and getting in that horse.
I'll need a job anyway. I can only make so many excuses for my current one. Bring a hard worker when I'm there isn't enough when I've missed probably twelve days in three months. Must of them because I convinced myself I didn't want my job.
Oh by the way the job I'm taking about is winnebago first shift. Currently we work 70 hour work week. Which is about 16 hours more than body can handle. Dan is going to kill me later on when I start going to work again. He's pretty much Mr Rutt all over again, except he doesn't fill me with respect and I can leave whenever I want. And by that I mean quit.
Oh sorry and by working for bego I mean I'm back at Express Services.
I don't understand why in doing this again. Is it sure stupid defense mechanism against getting hurt. I hope not, all it ever does is hurt me... I do seem to enjoy things that hurt me. I wonder if they're connected?
Oh well,
Nathan
P.s. as to of the Matt-Paige front if your curious, they're getting married in August. And if he screws it up I'm told I have full rights to hurt him. And Grandpa tells me she maybe pregnant and they may already be married on paper because of it.
P.p.s. I really hope that's not why I'm having issues. If be so disappointed.
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Moved on to Metastasized
I have moved on, it only took
three mental breakdowns, 5 months, and a whole lot of lost time from my
friends. As well as the worst news I could receive. My father's rectal cancer
has returned; all of a sudden my squabble with Paige and Matt seem insignificant.
I'm completely devastated, I feel
very similar to the worst of my psychosis except I have a real current reason
to be sad. Last time we were so hopeful when we went to the office in Mayo to
see the doctor, we were so surprised when the doctors' informed us it really
couldn't get much worse. Stage IV-Type 0. It was a miracle that it hadn't metastasized.
It's been five years, five years of my father being in remission, five years
since I was forced to help him heal; to spend every waking minute with him
while he's in pain. Apparently the surgery didn't catch all of it. The found it
metastasized in what they currently believe to be his peritoneum, the layer of
tissue around the abdomen.
Now all I can think about is the
worst. I'm only now just starting a new relationship online with a single
mother I met, but now instead of making sure Katie isn't just another Kimmy, I
also have to worry that my dad could be dying. I'm not sure how to give her the
time we deserve.
I'm scared and I'm not sure what
to do. This weekend I get to go see Celtic Women in concert, a group I've
always want to see live. Yet, all I want to do right now is curl up in my
apartment and forget the world exists, but I know that won't help.
I suppose all I can do is to keep
breathing and moving forward.
~Nathan
Friday, June 3, 2016
To Moving On...
I wonder, why is that you affect me in such a way?
It's been five months since I met you and without trying or
meaning to that you changed my world. My feelings for you aren't love; I didn't
get to know you that well enough for that. And yet the sound of your voice puts
my heart in my throat; as well as instilling a feeling of adoration and want. That
are then immediately followed by feelings of embarrassment, anger and a
profound sadness. Whether you are there or not. I want so hard to be happy for
you and your relationship, but I can no longer pretend that I'm not interested
in people. Keeping that secret isn't fair to me or to others.
I need to live and learn to love myself so I will no longer
look into the mirror and feel disgust, both for the things that I did when I
was young and for the person that I've allowed myself to become. But it's time
for me to move on. I need to be better than my abusers and move past the horrors
of my youth. I need to love myself, for myself, so I can help the next
generations to learn from my mistakes.
They say that to learn to breathe you must first breathe
out. That the first lesson to truly relax is to accept that which you stress
over and then let it go. Even if you can only do it for a few minutes; in time
it will get better. For the past few months, I have allowed my anxieties, paranoia,
and depression control my life. The psychosis from my past has controlled my
future, and my hopes for the future have drowned my present.
For years I've tried to hide from my memories, and I have
gotten pretty damn good at it. Though at times my memories started to poke
through to my conscious mind and I was forced to go to Sanctuaries. Be they at
my friends or to church. But this year when I finally bounced off the ground,
when my memories started to return I had no sanctuary to go to. I no longer
felt safe at my friends, as they had betrayed me; I no longer felt at home in
the church. I couldn't even feel the presence of the LORD, while I was there.
For a long time I had blamed other for my problems. Though
they may not be blameless for my current issues, they are not the cause of the
root issue; my problems are my own. I have survived to this point, but I have
refused to live; as I was unable to love myself. I disposed the person I was as
a child and I hated the person I had become.
As this chapter of my life comes to a close, I look to the
present and wonder. What can I do at this moment to improve myself? I need to
take care of myself better; I have to begin to care for my health. To not just
use it as an excuse for others to pity me for it. I need to care my things, so
I can have control of my finances and my life. Yet, I won't make a promise to
do these things, for I have tried that before. And when I broke those promises
to myself, even if to no fault of my own, my psychosis got worse. Even if the
promise wasn't keepable.
As I think about the past, I can now see both the good and
the bad. I see that which I could not see before. Love from others, as well as
my own disrespect. Even though I was hurt when others disrespected me. I had
wanted so much of others, but I had refused to return those same wants.
It's time for me to breathe out, let it go, and move on.
~Nathan
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Sleep
So I'm diabetic, I have been official for around 10 years
and I probably have been for all of my life. And when my mental health begins
to deteriorate I used to allow my blood sugars to elevate. It was a quick fix
to calm my raging thoughts.
It no longer works and to make matters worse as I now start
to reign my sugars in and my health improves it making my mental health worse.
My nightmares have returned.Most of them are old thoughts mixed with very weird vivid dreams of me blaming myself for my past, for things I had no control over. I know logically that this is only my subconscious trying to categorize the past few months into something useful and then to discard the rest, which may finally put the last few months of my torment to rest. But now I can't sleep unless I'm exhausted, either in body or in mind, so I don't dream. And my body still can't take exhausting amounts of work.
On good news though at least old thoughts are starting to fade and don't hurt as much. Silver lining I guess.
Nathan Damm
Monday, April 11, 2016
Resentment
For a long I've had feelings of anger and resentment towards
my parents. And now I have these same feelings for Matt, Paige, my friends and
GOD himself. And now as I write this, I wonder if it's only resentment towards myself.
I accept my own resentment of
myself, the resentment that I never told her how sorry I was. I didn't know how
to express my feelings for her, to explain how I wanted more than friendship. I
had hoped that maybe those notes would give me enough time to get up my courage
to tell her or to prove my worth to her (and to me as well) or something. But
in the end, all they did was scare her. I slipped and started to doubt myself
and I ended up blaming her. And I lost it all.
There aren't words to express my
sorrow.All I can do is ask for forgiveness,
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Anger and Aggression
I'm starting to
feel like I'm in middle school again, afraid of my own shadow. I realize it
sounds a little odd, but please try to understand that my shadow has always
been the manifestation of my aggression.
When I was young
I was bullied on, I have a picture from elementary school where I'm literally
over a head taller than everyone else in my class. And I kept growing, I never
got to get used to my height, I never learned coordination. Back in the 90s
when you were big and bullied the teachers told you to bully them in return. So
I did.
The problem was,
when I was bullied no one really seemed to care. At least no one seemed to care
about me, but when I bullied them back, and then my classmates would fawn over
them. They would make sure the asses were alright, to make sure the Ogre hadn't
hurt them. Then I would get dirty looks for days. And in the end I would just
be bullied again and no one would care.
Soon my size and
strength began to be a curse and I began to fear my anger and aggression. I
began to force my anger down so that I couldn't touch it. Soon I couldn't draw
it out at safely. I would become pent up and frustrated and then I would snap
under the smallest of pretexts. I would lose potential friends and more,
because I couldn’t express myself in constructive ways. I couldn't draw out my
anger constructively while lifting nor could I push my aggression in
competition. And I never really learned how.
And that leads me
to now. Now I'm 30. When I lift my anger comes out naturally and I can feel my
muscles tear from the extra strain. And I'm afraid to get together with my
friends and compete in noncontact sports because my Shadow, that which is the
manifestation of my aggression, may rear is its head and roar. And then I'll
have no control of myself at all.
Respectably,
Nathan.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Hopes, Dreams and Catfishes
So the girls I had been talking to online was another Catfish. Now logically I've known for a week or two that something was wrong, but emotionally I needed the crutch. I wanted it to be true so much. I wanted someone to look forward to seeing me, to be wanted. I liked caring about someone's safety and not having to worry if they would get the wrong impression and I'd somehow loose a friend.
Still it was nice to talk to a real person. Even if all the information I was given beforehand was fake, I like to believe that what we chatted about on yahoo was real. Of course, this also makes the blow worse as well, doesn't it? Unlike the others, I had actually grown feelings for this woman. Feelings of friendship and companionship mix with caring and at the end a hope for the future.
Once again my hopes for a future are destroyed by someone who cares only for themselves. And my dreams of a family of my own have been made nightmares, seemingly of my own ineptitude. Right now I feel horrible, as all I can think of is the relationship that caused my last emotional spiral. I feel horrible because I want their relationship to fail and not because I want to attempt another relationship with the girl, but so that my old friend who tore out my heart will feel the pain that I do now. I've repeatedly told myself it the past 12 hours that I want this so I can pursue a meaningful friendship with the girl. But that's because I fear if I do pursue it now, some of my old friends will try to use that slowly budding friendship as an excuse to force me to become friends with him again.
Once you combine these two issues with my financial woes caused partially from my emotional/mental breakdown at the beginning of the year, along with my mom's horrible attempts to help me coup, it just feels like I'm being pushed away again.
As to my Mom's attempts to help, she calls almost every day. Which I like, I like knowing someone cares, but she keeps throwing my mistakes in my face I don't know if she's attempting to make a joke or if it's a reminder. But either way, at the end of the day I've generally already used up most of my mental fortitude against it. I tear down myself throughout the day as it is, just to rebuild myself. So that eventually I can feel whole again, while still being myself. But having her remind me of my money issues, while I work my second job at home, while my bills sit on my table in front me needing to be paid, when I already can't pay my rent, I don't know what to do. I don't want her to stop calling.
But I'll keep working on it. I'll keep pushing myself as I can. I let my fears of my past allow me to stagnate for too long. I'll do what I can to use my anger and my will power in useful manners. I'll clean up my lifestyle and then who knows. I never would have guessed this, not now…
Respectably,
Nathan
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