For a while I had taken myself off the anti-depressents. Let myself off the leash so to speak. Thinking ‘I don’t need these everything is fine.’ And things were fine for a little while when the drugs were still finding their way out of my system.
But when they were all gone the panic attacks, anxiety and depression came back. I started thinking about death more than the usual amount, and even had a plan of how I was going to kill myself.
Well now I am back on, but not at my previous dose. Things are a lot better, but not healed exactly.
As of late I wonder about my level of crazy. Is the level of discord I feel with my partner manufactured in my insane head or are there some issues that need healing. Do I not really know how to be with a man emotionally? Am I too crazy to be with anyone? I still carry all this guilt about the column I wrote. My perception of gender and sexuality is so fluid/queer I didn’t see referring to my boyfriend as a lesbian as insulting. I also thought it was a given that there were things that one would share with their lesbian friends that they might not be able to with their male partners. I see now how it all was hurtful. I am just feeling disjointed confused and sad, and well this week is my last week of therapy. I don’t know what to do, how to feel. I love my partner and don’t want to lose him.
yay drugs?
December 15, 2008 · 3 Comments
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lesfriendly // December 16, 2008 at 10:06 am |
aw girl. *pat* i hope everything turns out okay
kelsi // December 16, 2008 at 8:24 pm |
hi darlin’… i’m so sorry things aren’t good for you right now. i know that vast and deep feeling of crazy and inadequacy. it’s awful.
but i hope that if you guys have gotten to the point you’ve gotten, then you’ll be able to talk it through. i do think that just as identifying a lesbian as a straight man would be awkward, i can see why he might have felt misrepresented – but i also know that you’re smart enough to explain why it isn’t a bad thing at all. love you, lady!
dirtandglitter // December 16, 2008 at 11:46 pm |
Lesfriendly- Welcome to my blog. I wish you had arrived at a happier less insane moment in my blogging life, but I am happy you are here. Thanks for the kind words.
Kelsi- I miss you dear heart. I need to keep in touch with you a lot better and am hoping once things even out to be able to do so. I think that things will smoothe out and I do just have to keep in mind that I have a chemical imbalance. Mom says I should go see a psychiatrist and be properly evaluated and I think she is right. I am just afraid to get the “Yep your certifiable” diagnosis. I have always been nuerotic but these past couple months it has been severe ups and downs. I don’t know if it is having a sick mom, living in a foriegn country, graduate school, tension with family, poverty or if it is just that I am crazy. At any rate I am trying to be better. I hope to be able to talk things through with my partner eventually. Now is not the time. Everything is still raw and we just need to get past this. As far as saying he was basically a lesbian, he refers to himself as one all the time and I didn’t realize that was just for us in private. Also I gave him the opportunity to read the column in advance–even emailing it to him. So I really just need to stop flogging myself about this. I feel bad that I hurt his feelings, but I have more than apologized and expressed his importance to me. It wasn’t the lesbian thing that was the only thing that hurt him, it was also the idea that there were things that I would share with my lesbian friends that I might not share with him. I think he felt like I have a secret other life or that there are things I can tell lesbians that I can’t tell him. Which isn’t what I meant by it. It is a challenge for me navigating this world of straight. I have had several years of being queer and this one experience with straightness. And I fail to understand the way men think and process. But he says he is over it and I am the one dragging it on. So I will just let it go and try not to take personally whatever emotions he still has to work through. Anyway I love you friend and will talk to you soon I hope.