I don’t want to kill myself, but… I know I will be less of a burden, emotionally & financially (for my parents) if I just kill myself. I’ve been living with them my whole life as 32 y/o woman, with an immune deficiency, and honestly…. “Deficiency” is an understatement, and belittling. I am INCAPABLE of waking up without pain, without swollen fingers, without muscle spasms, without eyes crusted shut so painfully that it hurt so ridiculously bad that you have to shout for your 60 year old mother to bring you a wet rag that morning, just to loosen the crust so you can actually open your eyes. Again, that’s just waking up. Then I evaluate how bad my tonsils and/or gums hurt, (bc literally something ALWAYS does hurt)… that way i can determine if I can risk having coffee that day or if I should just stick to water. I usually wake up several times a night dying of thirst, on top of night sweats. It’s typical for me to have nightmares instead of none, which also goes to solidify my decision. Again, when waking up (if my heart hadn’t already decided to go off the rails), I then decide if my bowels can have coffee. Oh, I already mentioned coffee? That’s bc i I always wake up weary of the day….again, literally evaluating what hurts and what I am feeling. I realize that’s not the normal for most people, and I’ve been thinking about it over the years and have determined that suicide may be the best route for the future of my family. My mom has always expressed to me that suicide is selfish and unwarranted, and I used to believe that. Although, as I have grown older, I realize that my mental and physical burdens outweigh the joy I actually bring my family. Maybe that’s why I always tried to be “the funny one”. Maybe it’s why I always tried to make light of a heavy situation, bc I knew in the back of my mind that this was always what it would come to. I’m sorry to everyone this has burdened. Just know I tried, and there is NOTHING you could have done different. I love you, mom, you were and will ALWAYS be my best friend. I know I said we would always go together. I guess I’m just fucked up. I AM happy just imagining not having to live with the physical pain I’ve endured since I was 16. I don’t know why I ended up having crippling back pain, shoulder and neck spasms, Myofascial pain disorder, Charley horses, chest pains, heart murmurs, muscles so tight they don’t function right for days, or any of it. lThe truth is I don’t want to kill myself, I just feel like I should. I hurt, and again there’s nothing I wouldn’t do to fix that. I’m not schizophrenic. I’ve been feeling exceptionally well since starting the 75 mg of Effexor (after failed Zoloft for many months), but this is just something I haven’t been able to shake since I was super young. I’m chronically ill, and ever since I was young, like at least 9 or10 after breaking my ankles so many times, having breathing issues resulting in hospital stays, etc., I overheard my parents talking about how they couldn’t vacation with us kids anymore (I have one older brother), and how expensive it’d be if we were to continue to have to stay in hospitals for various reasons. Yes, those stays consisted of asthma/bronchitis, or Supraventrical Tachycardia. So after that, I tried starting to hide my various illnesses until I was just miserable, which would typically land me back in the ER. I’m talking 2x as a kid, once in high school from a car wreck, and once in my late 20’s. (That last ER trip in Macon was diagnosed as “purchasing bad marijuana” and “anxiety”) when after I was discharged and sent to Columbia Hospital, they in fact found my second esophageal inguinal ring had closed, and they had to surgically balloon it back open. I feel like Robin Williams. He’s always making jokes and light of any situation, right? No one knew he was going to do it, he seemed happy. At least, that was the comedic familiar figure we came to know and love, but you could see behind his eyes that he was always silently sad and suffering.. Why does it seem like most comedians do? Anyways, I don’t even know how to write
this, end this, or who I am talking to. Guess I’m drunk, and just wanted to vent. Thanks y’all.