Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

stuck

I have too much to do.  

So many things, all at once.

I shut down.  I hide.  I doom scroll and sleep and drink.

I need to believe in myself/my work again. 

So many good people are supporting my work.  

Telling me, "get back up!".

They'd do anything for me.

I wish I would.

I'm scared.

So many things have hurt.  So many lives I've built and burned.

Fuck.

It's hard to get back up again.  I'm so tired.

Please help me.  

What am I supposed to do?

What work is for me?

Help me find my place again.  Help me be useful again.  Help me do good again.

I'm so tired.  

Please pick me up, dust me off, and put me in the game again.

Struggling is real.

Friday, April 7, 2023

birthdays

Today I turn 46.  Older than I ever imagined.  But, possibly, only half way through my life.

I always celebrate my "last day" the day before my birthday.  My "last day" of 45 this year.  I won 2 chess matches, lost 0.  I won 2 pinball games, and lost 3.  I caught up with an old friend and celebrated our 10 year friendiversary.   

I sang, I planned a trip to do route 66 with an acquaintance I'd like to make a friend.  I loved on a 10 week old shibu inu puppy.  I taught 5 students, and coached 2 more.  I made it home safely.

I wrote in my journal.  I tried to read my tarot cards, but I felt off.  I brushed out dreadlocks from a good friend's depression hair.  I made a new cat friend, I saw two dog friend's and two cat friends outside my house.

I saw a rose gold full moon rise.

I apologized for interrupting and listened as well as I could.  

I left my husband to be depressed in bed and tried not to let it bother me.

I did my best.  Now I need to nap.

Goodbye 45.

Hello 46!

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Changes are fucking hard.  Oh man.  

It's super bad when you want to change your haircut, it's a whole new level of suckage when your life gets the rug pulled out from beneath your feet.

Sometimes, I wonder how I haven't taken the fast lane to purgatory.  

The past few years have been just as, and honestly, even tougher than I've had to face before.  Why I have to tear apart my whole world every few years is beyond me.

I'm not sure who I should blame for all the ruination.  Clearly, I am the only common denominator.  I am getting better at accepting that.

I've tried so hard to make everyone else happy.  I failed them all, miserably, publicly, and horribly.  I was never concerned with what I actually wanted in life.  I didn't ever think about myself, it was not allowed.  I only ever thought about what I thought everyone I loved and cared for needed and wanted.

Boy, that was not the right answer.

My health has taken a real beating.  Mentally and physically.  My finances have gone up and down again.  My relationships have been a real roller-coaster ride.  

I mean, food allergies, severe chronic pain, long covid, memory loss, severe depression and anxiety, weight gain, hamstring injuries, severe allergies coming out of the woodwork, surgery, massive family disputes, alcohol and drugs, business collapse, eviction, rage attacks, panic attacks, nightmares, ptsd, shame, guilt, pain, failure, defeat and illness.  It's really been something.  

I have fought and fought to do what I thought everyone expected of me, and it's nearly killed me.

I'm ready to do for me.  It's time.