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10/14/08 10:38 pm - !!!

last night was close.  But I have my energy back! Ha, I could do so muchhhhh.   But there's a cloud following, a dark, dark cloud.   This cloud is trying to rain on me, on me!  Like that will happen.  I haven't a clue what to do.  I've been medicated.  Not event hat can sedate this wonderful energy.   This wonderful fire.   Oh, but I do pray, please oh please, don't let it rain on this fire.   For when the two mix we get a very nasty result.  Ohhhhhhhhhhhh,  it's going to be a splendid evening, I daresay, a splendid evening.

10/12/08 08:59 pm - The End?

As it nears November 1, I grow more anxious.  Anxious in the negative sense.   My whole body is tingly.  I don't want this to happen again; however, I know it is.   Is that self-fufilling prophecy?   Do I stop it in advance?  What do I do?  If I tell someone than that means I want attention, right.   Please, someone, help.

10/11/08 11:50 pm

that I needed to discern the difference between a major problem and a minor one.   Well, I am too ashamed to admit that I might in fact be having a major problem (especially considering that it is a major internal problem) .  The truth is my modd swings have never been so drastic nor have they been so rapid.   I'm forgetting more and more.  Is this crazy? 

I keep seeing myself in mirrors, windows, glass - this reflection - I cry.  God, I don't want to look like me.  I name a billion things wrong.  I ate so much today that my body feels like it might explode, my stomach does anyway.  I'm tired of throwing up and ex-lax.   I hate not eating for a day.   Fat-free everything when I do eat.  Just make me skinny and pretty. ANYONE.  Is this possibly making the moods worse?

So my major problem.  Well, iot isn't major, but I'm tired of her mocking me  She takes shards of glass laughing saying, go ahead slice yourself up.  She said that my throwing up is why I look thinner.  And thin is good.   She said I gave her the crazy look the other day. If shes it again she's calling 911.  I don't mean to mess up everything for her.  And as everyone tells me how much she loves me, they then like to remind of her condition.  She isn't healthy because i stresss i her out.  Me not being normal, not being well makes her worse.  Maybe if someone could show me how to love myself, my body, be healthy I'd know!

HA! And today what she said sent me over edge.  I thought I would just lose.  Instead I slept (At 2 PM) for three hours.  Is it bad to want to leave?  When I have this great life, is it bad to want to leave?

10/9/08 08:45 pm - tonight

was group, literal group with other (external) people.

I think I told them too much.   I think I've been telling everyone too much.  In fact I was much happier when everything remained surpressed, tucked away in trunks in each room.  I liked life better when the door was closed.   When there was no hole in the wall, I never heard screaming.   I keep comparing myself to Debbie Blau in Rose Garden.  Though I know I am not schizophrenic, I cannot help but to notice these similarities.  Hence, in my notes I keep making refrences to my internal structures as opposed to her.  Her Upuru is my green, as the Pit is the Green Room.  I - too - have poison, however it is the Red, my blood.   Debbie is much more sophisticated than I, more smart adn talented.   She has the ebauty of language and mythology.   My life revolves around color and random thoughts.  I don't know how much longer everyone can hold up.   The days are becoming harder, night almost unbearable as they once were before.   Is it normal to always be spinning?  Can someone even spin on the inside?  I think that's what's happening.  I want to talk to someone.  Well, I need to actually.  More than anything I wish I could talk to Dr. S.  She would know what to do.   And this medication.  HA!  Give me a break, like that will change anything.   I hate to tell these "experts" but I highly doubt medication is the answer (in my case anway).  You see the voIces, the visions are not external.   They are all inside.  I am actually sane, not crazy.   I do - however - appear crazy because I do the same thing over and over again, and expect different results.

Help?

10/8/08 09:52 pm - Ramblings. . .

 Last night was a bad night.   My family had another blow up.   When they yell, my insides shake.  I don't know why.   I hate yelling though, and it scares me.   When they get angry, they get a bit aggressive too.  I don't like when mom gets physical.  i know she's frustrated, but it hurts.
Things are confusing me, more so than ever.
I don't know what happened before the fight. Some people said that they were/are worried about me.   I'm not positive about what I did or said though.   I don't like no knowing.  I hate not knowing.   But other things, inside, are starting to make a bit of sense.  I suppose a bit is better than none.  There are dreams and fantasies and fears and terrors that I feel, yet I know not why.   Everyone thinks it's funny how I hate green.  If only they knew.   If only, I knew why the stupid color green was so horribe, so icky.  I want my head to stop spinning, and be quiet.   I want to be able to sleep.  I want my days to be longer than my nights.

They keep saying I need medication, but that nothing is 'wrong' with me.  Why do I take pills that do nothing?  
I'm not even allowed in school unless I;m medicated.  They want to sedate me through life.  I don't want that though.

I think I am sad

and mad.

10/7/08 05:26 pm - I am currently reading

 the book, My Lobotomy.  Synopsis: Howard Dully's stepmother is a mean lady.  She and his dad lie to him, exaggerate to a doctor; thus a twelve year old Howard has a lobotomy.   I don't think they perform many lobotomies anymore. They shouldn't.  See, it's that whole stigma surrounding mental illness.  Someone once told me that mental problems are not flaws, but neurobiological differences.  This is true.  Yet, why rush into this surgery?   I've met some intelligent, beuatiful people who are confined to barred rooms because of this "illness."  They cannot separate themselves from this illness.  Their "bipolar" (or whatever the most recent diagnosis is) and their personality cannot be separated.  They have fused as one.  Makes sense?  
 
Mental illness is almost like a friend, or rather a way to cope.  Just as I turn to my best friend when I am sad.   People turn to their sorrow or their delusions.  They bring comfort.  It's their way of applying logic to such an illogical world.   That is why, for instance, in my English class, I want to scream.  You can't apply "logic" to mental illness.  That's like doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result each time.  If I take a cigarette and burn my hand, it will always be hot.  It's not going to be cold, ever.   Mental illness will not make sense to some who is legally "sane."  Is being misunderstood really that much of a disappointment?  Who would want self-absorbed, collar popping people to fully understand your feelings, thoughts, emotions?  Maybe sometimes a voice in your head is a helluva lot nicer than tht kid in your history class who always yells "fuck."

10/7/08 12:55 am - Beginning

I wish I remembered things better.   That way when it comes time to write about my life expereices, you know, essays and things, I am able too.  I think I am just too opionated.  Shupe said my tone is too negative.  Hello?  If you have a two second conversation with me, I think you'll realize I am a rather pessimistic person.  I suppose I am sarcastic too, well I am sarastic .  I made this thing, so that my writing would be more organized both in form and in the actual location.  (meaning scraps of looseleaf, backs of tests, and old folders are too fickle) 

Lately, the whole "OMG! How are you?" thing has been bothering me.  Most of us say that we are some version of good, thank the interrogator, than precede to ask them how they are.   In reality we are both probably having terrible days, and unless this person is your shrink, best friend or some other close confidant than you're fantastic.  I don't want to become one of those people that when you see in the store you purposely walk the other way.   I think I already am though.   My Gram always rolls her eyes at the people she knows who are never okay.  She says they are always sick, sad, or just shitty. Please, do not let become an "always shitty" person.   I swear I'm fine now. 
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