Homeless

Am I too proud to move back in with my parents… again? I think so. As soon as I left that house they put it up on the market. They’ve bought another place. I kept them there. I’m ashamed of that.

Now, She tells me she can’t afford to keep supporting me now. That’s true. I’ve helped drive her to bankruptcy and I can’t imagine being intimate with someone I’ve caused so much harm to. But even if I was to get it together for myself, she doesn’t want to live with me.

I’ve never tried to commit suicide. But today was so bad I took her pain pills and drank. I was knocked out for a while. It was not a suicide attempt. It wasn’t a cry for help. For me, it was the help.

I am a danger to myself. I am being reckless because I cannot stand the situation I am in. Unless she changes how she feels or a miracle occurs, on December 21, 2012 I will be homeless. And with that looming ahead of me, suicide IS an option I am considering. I cannot deny this fact. My life has not been, is not and will continue to be not worth living.

In the time I have spent with her, I have been mostly a burden. A pest. She described our relationship as “parent/child” and that hurt the most. It hurts because it is true. I am a child. I am ashamed.

I am ashamed of my whole pathetic life. This is not black/white splitting. I am a pathetic waste and certainly have been since adulthood.

My life is permanently damaged in large part due to an undiagnosed mental illness. I have BPD. If I had had the ability to make a suicide attempt prior, I would have gotten the care I needed, but I didn’t. A suicide attempt would be a long time coming.

This is where my life is headed and maybe it needs to be there. I need to just be a mentally ill homeless person for a while. This might just be what happens to someone with my condition who miraculously escapes treatment for so goddamn motherfucking long.

One response

  1. I’m so sorry you are going through this right now. I too struggle with BPD and know the isolation and feelings you are sharing here. You aren’t a burden to anyone. You didn’t make any one bankrupt. These are choices that the persons involved chose to make. You have a mental illness, a recently diagnosed mental illness, like I do. I only found out in 2011 and I am 43 years old. Until that diagnosis I have struggled with chronic depression and anxiety with panic attacks.

    Get in touch with your government mental health facilities. They will be able to help you get into a shelter; or as I can see, hospital stay to help you start to get well. Please don’t self harm, you are worth so much more than that.

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