Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Today's weight: 68kg

What will everyone think when I'm gone?

It's not what you're thinking. I'm just upset and lost and probably a little confused but I can't see the confusion clearly right now. I have so much to say and yet I can't seem to find the words for it.

I just wanted things to work out, but now I don't know if they will. What if they don't?

Some days I feel like no matter how hard I try, I'll never get anything right, I'll never be good enough. I'm never going to be that person I'd envisioned.

How can I be?

I'm too messed up. Too broken. Too confused. Too worried. Too scared. Too, I don't know, me?

Why?

- CG

Monday, March 28, 2011

Family, go die.

Today's weight: 68.5kg

Is it to much to ask for a good day? Where people just let me be happy? Is it?

Apparently.

Because I'm a disappointment because my walls aren't lined with an array of awards for my mother to brag about. And that's really disappointing, naturally. How dare I not be her honour roll child who is perfect, happy and has a nice normal job at Safeway. How.Dare.I. And how dare I like to to be left alone! How dare I be moody. How dare I like privacy. How dare I have a fucking personality.

I don't even like them. They seem to make a sport of upsetting me. And then when I'm all upset and shitty and don't want to talk to them they go mental and tell me its all my fault. It's not my fault, so fuck off. I don't come home to be put down. It takes five minutes after a good morning at work to bring me back down. Between school and home life is just fine and dandy.

I'm obsessed with my weight, I cut, I'm depressed and I can't decide whether I'm angry or upset. What's the point of this? Is it to make me hate life? Because I hate life.

No amount of butterflies, people telling me they care, the pretence of care at home, or the pretence of normality is going to fix that.

Fuck.It.All.

- CG

Thursday, March 24, 2011

FML

Today's weight: 69kg

She says I'm not a big med taker, and I'm not. But she doesn't understand. She doesn't understand at all. Every med I take is regulating my body and how it function. Regulating how it functions. I don't need anymore. I don't need anymore and I don't want anymore. They taste bad. They taste bad and they're screwing with my natural functions. I'm unpredictable. I'm unpredictable, wildly moody, but mostly I'm just sad. I'm just sad and it hangs over me and it's kicking my arse. It's kicking my arse and I can't stop it. I want to kick it, but how do I kick something that is intangible. It's all intangible and only drugs can fix it. I don't want drugs, they taste bad. How can it be good for me when it tastes so bad. It tastes so bad and I just want someone to talk to. Not to problem solve. Not to problem sole because I'm not ready. Not ready and too antisocial. I just want someone to listen and tell me I'm normal. Tell me I'm normal and I haven't done anything wrong. I haven't done anything wrong and I'm not doing anything wrong. You don't understand. You don't understand how I cope. You don't understand how I cope because it looks bad. It looks bad its taboo. It's taboo and emos do it. Emos do it but I'm not emo, I'm just confused. I'm just confused and sad. I'm sad because everything is wrong and nothings wants to go right. Nothing wants to go right because the universe hates me. The unierse hates me and I don't know why. I don't know why and I don't understand. I don't understand and I'm hurting. I;m hurting and I'm lost. I'm lost because no one can tell me why. Why have all these things happened and why they keep happening and why I wake up every morning and why I keep trying. I keep trying because I haven't got the guts to end it. I haven't got the guts to end it and I'm harbouring too much pride. Harbouring too much pride so I won't ask for help. Not asking for help because I'm not convinced I need it. Not convinced I need it but knowing deep down I do. Deep down I do but I don't want someone to help, I want someone to listen. Someone to listen because she doesn't understand. She doesn't understand how I'm not a big med taker. She just knows. She just knows but she won't listen. She won't listen, she'll try to understand and problem solve. I don't want to be problem solves, I just want someone to listen.

- CG

Ps. I killed George

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

That awkward moment where the teacher has to ban the use of the phrase "animal porn"

Today's weight: 70kg

Not happy about this. Not happy about this. Not happy about this at all. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK etc etc etc.

And I really, really want to cut. It's like the thought is just sitting there, in my mind, and I'm thinking "do I, don't I, do I, don't I" and I don't know. I really want to do it. And then I don't want it. And then I really, really want it.

So I drew George. George is my butterfly and he sits on my forearm, where I cut. If I cut, I kill George, and I don't want it to come to that, but I don't know!

I guess it shows the George is doing his job if I'm experiencing this indecision.

I really like George!

Actually, the whole point of posting tonight was to write a list of all the things that are wrong with me, so here goes...

1. My left achilles tendon has tendonitis
2. My left ACL is strained
3. My left patella tendon has tendonitis
4. My right patella tendon has tendonitis
5. My right wrist possibly has tendonitis and most probably RSI
6. My right elbow has tennis elbow and a hypersensitive nerve
7. I have acne that varies in its horrendousness
8. One of my poisons [meds, but poisons is such a better name for them] causes me to be short of breath, which means when going up or down flights of stairs or removing elastoplast from a horse's hoof, which essentially makes me puff
9. I had PCOS, now I don't and now just have weirdo hormones
10. I have a soft heart murmur
11. I have a slow right ventricle - it's action is delayed
12. I have major depression
13. I have an anxiety disorder
14. I have low to non-existent self esteem
15. I obsess over my weight
16. I self harm

And there you have it. I'm feeling a bit confused about everything. Who am I? Where am I going? What am I going to do with myself? What if I screw everything up really badly? Why am I scared? Should I be scared. It goes on, and on and on, and I'm sad and tired and over it and I just want things to be nice and happy and simple, so I don't have to worry and stress and freak out and cry and obsess.

I really think George is going to die.

But I don't want him to.

I don't even know what to do anymore. What am I supposed to do? I don't want to deal with it anymore. I hate the cards I've been dealt with, I want a redraw. I'm asking so many questions and receiving so little answers. I know that most, if not all, of these questions are difficult, if not impossible to answer, but if they're so hard to answer then how do you cope? How do you go on? How do you right the wrongs when you don't know what they are and no one else knows either?

What kind of reality am I living in?

I look at that list, and I just think, why am I doing this to myself?


Why?

- CG

Saturday, March 19, 2011

So I totally Forgot about Doco Night on 7Mate and Now I've missed It

Today's weight: 69.5kg

As I was standing on the scales today I realised that posting my weight on this blog is only feeding my obsession. I also realised that this probably wouldn't change how I feel about myself. So I continued to stand on the scales and berate myself for weighing so much. I realise I'm not fat, I really do. I'm just worried about about weighing more than 70kg. Is that so irrational?

But, I definitely did forget about doco night and I definitely missed an interesting air crash investigation and I'm very disappointed! However, I got to watch a ship sink and now there's something about the Universe and space travel, so all is not lost. Ah, yes it is. Dad just put the cricket on. [I thought about mentioning the death of my brain cells, but then I remembered that I actually like cricket, so it would be misleading to write that]

So I'm feeling pretty blah tonight. But I have some news. I am two days clean of cuts. Now I am fairly sure I've just jinxed myself, but we'll see. Point is, two days.... So yay? I dunno. I'm not feeling yay about it all. It's not even that I went out of my way to stop, I just went to do it and thought "Why do I do this again?" There's this whole long list of reasons that I feel justify my behaviour [and do justify it indeed depending on whom you talk to] but nothing on that list seemed relevant and I felt like I was doing it out of habit, it was a routine. And if it's simply a routine then what is the value of continuing it?

I don't know whether my mood has evened out, or I've just slept a lot more than I needed to and am thus more prepared to deal with things. Actually, I don't know that my moods have evened out much at all. I'm still particularly snappy with people. Say the wrong thing and you shall die [a horribly slow and painful death in my head].

I think that'll do for tonight. I'm getting a touch distracted.

- CG

Friday, March 18, 2011

Blah Blah Blah Blah Fuck

Today's Weight: 70kg

So yesterday I went to see a cardiologist.

I know what you're thinking - "Aren't you a little young for that?" And yes, yes I am. Even the doctor said so. But I learnt some interesting things about myself yesterday. I have a soft heart murmur. Yep, believe it. I'm not sure I can right now but I guess I kind of have to. And, my right ventricle is also slower than my left. Sometimes people are born with a slower ventricle, but by age five it has usually corrected itself. Of course mine didn't. Of course.

But the murmur is quite the revelation is it not? I get that its pretty harmless to me but of course my heart is defective.

Of course.

Why would I get to be normal? Huh. Why?

So now I have to do all these tests and I'm just not happy. So many questions, so little answers. Because you know, they've "never seen anything" like me. FML. Like seriously. I hate my life so much. So much.

I don't even know what to do.

Why can't things just work like they're meant to?

Why?

What did I do wrong?

Who hates me?

Is it the universe?

What did I do!?

I hate my life. I hate it. I don't know why I'm living anymore. I really don't. It's not fun. It's not happy. It's painful and sad. Depression, anxiety, whatever other shit they've labelled me with over the years, it's all kicking my arse. I can't win.

I'm not even sure I want to anymore. What's the point in fighting this losing battle any longer?

- CG

Monday, March 7, 2011

No One Wants to Own my Issues

Today's weight: 68kg

So, I saw one of my many specialists (past and present) today. She bounced me off to yet another specialist because the genetics department at the Royal Children's wants nil to do with me. They had some fancy name for "you're in the grey zone". Which basically means that I have some issues that could be in their department but they've elected to send me back. THE BASTARDS. So thanks to my issue with a certain medication that isn't a textbook side effect it probably isn't safe. So they're sending me to another specialist! Now watch this other one send me back. I'M NOT A FUCKING BALL. Stop treating me like one. I'm tired of ending up in the too hard basket. Do you understand the worthlessness that implies. That I'm not worth the time. How I'll never work this out, because you lot won't spend the time thinking. Using that apparent superior intelligence you lot apparently have. MAKE IT BETTER FFS.

I don't understand how modern medicine can sit there and marvel at me week after week. I don't understand at all.

And seriously, like I needed this on top of everything else that's going on. I'm just over it. Had enough, putting the breaks on. Forget it. I don't even care about school anymore. I only get so much homework done because I hate socialising at the moment. I'd rather sit in the library so everyone can think I'm a nerd than sit in a moody silence with people.

I don't get to win in life. I just suffer. And hurt. And ask why. Of course, no one ever has any answers. I'm just in that damned too hard basket.

Tonight this'll end in cuts.

Tomorrow, who knows.

In a month? The solution may be those horrendous anti depressants. Let's hope it doesn't come to that because I'm telling you right now I've had a gutfull of medications and won't have anymore. Specially not ones that are out to regulate my body. Like I said, had a gutfull of those.

- CG

Thursday, March 3, 2011

This time I cannot disguise all the Doubt I'm feeling

Today's weight: 67kg

Well this made me pretty damn happy when I stepped on the scales this afternoon. But, I'll allow the admission that I'm worried by my "you could be thinner" attitude. It's just stupid.

There's this stream of talk that goes on in my head and its like "you're fat, and you're really just no good, completely worthless, why would anyone think anything of you, you're not good enough, you'll never do better, stop cutting its ugly, eat less, smile - people are staring, you do not fit in anywhere, etc etc etc." It just goes on and on and on. I'm listening to it again though. Sometimes I don't even notice and other times I'll catch myself listening and then I just wonder what I'm doing and why.

Why am I doing anything? I've had a chat with myself and I don't want to get up in the morning. I don't want to socialise, I don't want to do a damned thing. But for some reason I just keep plugging away at everything. So why? I know I spend a lot of time doing my homework because I like the distraction it gives. I don't get lost in thought when I'm thinking about Why Tsar Nicholas II had to abdicate in 1917 or why $100 dollars gives you $50 simple interest after X amount of years at X rate. It's not that I'm out to be a super nerd, I just like the peace and the distraction.

Mind you, all this extra time better get me some nice marks otherwise I'm throwing in the towel and just thinking. Because you know, it'd be nice not to be ridiculed for scoring below 90%. I really hate that. So? Go place your fucking expectations on someone else, I don't want to hear them! I don't want to hear your judgements! I'm doing the best I can with my current state of mind. I can't give you anymore! I.just.can't. So leave me alone. It would be much appreciated.

But of course, that is all just wishful thinking. Because nothing I do will ever be good enough.

I'm just so, so unhappy. I don't know what to do. I've tried and failed constantly at straightening myself out. I don't know why I can't manage it or what I'm going to do. So it's pretty much resulted in cutting. And this is daily at the moment. Two or three at a time. Always in the same place. It's becoming a touch painful actually. Considering moving where I do it, but I don't want to resume on my arms, because I have a natural tendency to inflict damage there. Three years later and you can still see the original scars.

I just keep getting more and more wound up with each passing day. I can't unwind. It's going to be fun when all this spontaneously comes undone.

- CG


PS. Jellyfish evaporate in the sun.