I feel like I should mention despite all this I want to repeat that I don't have a real plan and I am not going to take my life. I could never do that to my loved ones despite the pain I'm in. This board really only exists for me as a kind of a escape, a role play where I am literally face to face with the idea of ending it all and you know what? It actually helps me. Am I the only one who has this mentality?
(Venting diatribe response as per usual from me ....
Pretty similair .
I've been negotiating the freedom from those ties .
Well . I can do it now .... why not ?
In real life I've been avoiding 'living' in the accepted sense ... and being here has let me self evaluate amongst others without the usual TABOO noise precluding discussion .
It's important to me to live according to some expectations , and if those are not there then it may not be worth it.
A lot of those are directed at myself , and the realization that I have been 'living' in a world I built inside my mind and my emotional world that was according to some shitty blue prints of formative experience .
Destruction of the bullshit and creation of something I regard as integrity .
There is a very real sense in that shooting the shit on here is easier than planning traction in the real world ...
( edit to add : FOR ME ... plenty of folk don't know where to start discussing the internal world ... it's easier to bulldoze the real world and not even notice the internal , 'cos 'conditioning ... ?)
...but it feels like that may be changing .
I don't think I will ever invalidate suicide or rule it out as an option , but my attitude is evolving ... and that is change , and I guess thats ok .
The internal OCD mantras of self destruction have become infrequent rather than a constant ....
A friend ( an arch trickster from my past ... a loveable devil character , de-legitimizingly (?) said to me
very recently : "I've thought in the past that you probably think you are depressed more than you actually are ."
This was so infuriating , but I just let it go as a hair splitting analysis because I failed to see the difference .
Is there one ? Maybe he was right ... maybe I have talked myself into my depression in the same way I am trying to talk myself out of it ... ???
Who knows .
Thanks to everyone who reads this and has accepted my 'trying to find out' here .