The-red-centaurSenior Contributor
I dont feel like i exist right now
Im not sure how to put my thoughts into words but im going to try to get a few things out. I have been bottling things up the last few weeks, I feel teary yet I feel so numb and empty.
I feel a weight on me to keep pushing myself to say afloat and just keep on swimming. Like this pressure to say I'm ok and be bubbly and positive.
I have been getting so dazed and confused lately, I have been disassociating into the other a bit and forgetting simple things. I feel dark stabbing thoughts and feelings that I keep pushing down and I feel scared to let it out or express.
September brings memories of things I wish I could forget, and then the 25th is a reminder of how dark things became and how my physical disability is my fault.
The pangs of that hit me this evening as I told my coach what caused my injuries in a slip of tongue at the soccer league wind up thing.
I hide that part of me from most people who know me outside of my support workers. Like letting people see my scars is easy but them knowing why I have them still fills me with shame.
Anyways, I have been swallowed by my pain and past so many times that I am scared it will overcome me if I let out. But I also know that the more I push it aside the worse it will eat me until I regress so much it could take a while to come back.
The weirdest symptoms I feel is the detachment from my body and reality in general. My skin feels abnormal. My mind feels like its floating but my body so physically heavy. When I feel my limbs with my hands its like they dont exist. Even in clasping my hands in each other my fingers dont feel real. I look in the mirror and feel like I dont recognise the face in the mirror.
I have put my body through so many horrors and it went through a lot of other horrors too. I cant feel it anymore and it scares me. I took a while to try to heal my mind before and connect it to my body and repaired a lot of the disconnect. I feel it slipping away again. I feel life slipping away. I cant even feel the warm sun on my face or the soft rain on my hands.
I feel like I feel nothing anymore, and lots of memories have faded that I'm wondering did any of it actually happen. Maybe I just made the last 30 years up.
Idk what I'm needing or anything. I have tears welling in my eyes but I feel nothing. Im not sure if I'm sad or just tired. Or wishing for a reason to just let it all go and take myself back to those years when I had nothing but destruction.