Who do you turn to when you have no one to turn to?

I finally got out of the house today and went to Starbucks. It was a little rough getting there but I persevered. I wanted a latte and by dog gone it, I was going to get one! It wasn’t as sweet as I was hoping it was, but it did it’s job. And I got some writing done while I was cruising through Facebook and Twitter. It doesn’t make any sense right now, but I think I will work on it later tonight to see if I can make it make sense. It was like once I started writing I “threw up” and my brain couldn’t make sense of the thoughts anymore.

Back and bowels are having a fight as to who is going to win the pain shoot out. I almost lost control of my bowels twice since coming home. I fear that if I do, I will commit suicide. I am that vulnerable.

I tried to bring up my suicidal tendencies to my therapist today but she got all panicky so I dropped it. I could tell from her voice she was not going to be listening to me and just freaking out about losing me. I never felt so low as I did in that moment. I felt like I had no one to talk to about my ideas or frustrations to do with suicide. It’s just up to me to deal with, once again, on my own. I can’t talk to my pdoc, she is out of commission for a while. And the most she can offer me is a hospitalization. I don’t need to be hospitalized, least I don’t think I do. I just want to talk about what it would be like with me not in the world anymore to someone non-judgmental and criticizing. And also, not be freaked out by it. My therapist is a good therapist. She has kept me alive the past 10 years, some how, some way. But she still gets fucking juiced up and down right untalkable when I bring up suicide or feeling like ending my life. If I can’t talk about it in therapy, who can I turn to? Sure I have my blog, but last time I posted a post on being suicidal someone hunted me down to make sure I was ok and scared a few people in the process. I was lucky they didn’t call the cops. So now I am hesitant to put that on my blog for fear of being taken the wrong way. And if I don’t have my blog to vent to, what the hell is the point of writing this blog every day?? I have been keeping things neutral since that incident. I keep to myself and I hardly write in my journal anymore. Since being discharged from the hospital in August, I really have been questioning things. I am unhappy in therapy, with the process itself, and I am not sure after 15 years, it is going to change. I know my medication regiment is stable and doesn’t need to be played with. I guess I just miss talking with someone, and having intellectual discussions with people about psychology and suicide. I miss being in academia. I miss having the research tools at my finger tips. (Call me a geek!) But I no longer have that and that makes me depressed. I know that if I were in school and pursuing my passion, I might be feeling better but I can’t afford school. It just costs too much for a bachelor’s education and I don’t have the money. If I didn’t screw up my student loans, I would be going back to school now. It would give me routine and sociability with my fellow classmates. I sometimes feel like holding a cardboard box in the square and say “college tuition” just to see if I would get a response. Be a fun experiment, from the sociological viewpoint.

I have thought of passing this on to my therapist, but I figure why bother. She doesn’t “listen” anymore…

7 thoughts on “Who do you turn to when you have no one to turn to?

  1. Therapy should be a place where you can be real. You shouldn’t have to worry that your therapist is going to panick, or freeze on you. I’m sorry she’s being like that. I’m also sorry your struggling and feel so bad. Sending hugs if wanted? If you’d like to become a viewer of our blog visit
    http://manymults.wordpress.com/

    I put it on private so I can be more real, and only invite certain people to view it. We have did and ptsd. Take good care! xoxo

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  2. Glad you got out & latte! Don’t know what a ‘latte’ is-never had 1-BUT could you have added sugar to it? Yes, I live in Bumfuck, Egypt as a friend used to say & I’m quite accustomed to Bostonians thinking anyplace west of the eastern Aleghaney (sp) mountains is uncivilized, but we haven’t worn buckskins & lived in log cabins for several years. We do have electricity, indoor plumbing, cell phones etc. LOL I don’t know where to go or to whom 1 can talk when everybody is gone! It’s been YEARS since I’ve had someone! I do phone ‘friends’ on occasion but after the “Hello’ they launch into their spiel because they don’t have anyone either so I end up listening to them. The night our 2nd born son died suddenly, I phoned my BFF of 50 years at 2AM to tell her–as soon as she wakened a little, she launched into her spiel. I finally interrupted her & said ‘Jack’s dead’ & hung up. So I’m NOT a ‘good one’ to answer your question or be much help. Just wanted you to know I DO UNDERSTAND your dilemma & need. I DO hope you find someone though. It can be terribly painful & lonely but it’s not HALF as bad as reaching out and being rejected. I’ve ceased reaching out-in fact there’s little reason to even have a phone or computer- but I’m sort of doing ok on my own because I don’t ‘feel’ anything any more.

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  3. I usually use a word doc first before posting so I write what I want then edit it as I see fit or not to, depending on my mood. it helps to get it out. Just write in a word doc and then if you are inclined, cut, paste, publish. Got to get the hurt out somehow or it will eat you alive.

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  4. I honestly know how you feel. The need to find that kindred spirit or just someone that understands. Mine lives about 15 hours from me, and trying to convey things over the phone isn’t the same as having them there in person.

    And its okay to use a blog to speak out about your inner demons. I wish I had the courage that you did to express it. I feel like if I started I wouldn’t be able to stop.

    Depression is a silent epidemic, I truly believe it. So many have it, and yet we are the silent majority because so many refuse to want to discuss it.

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