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Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder,Depression and Anorexia,I am described as a 'chronic' self harmer.My pets are my life,why don't you get to know us :)

Wednesday 27 April 2011

Feeling lost

I am feeling really lost, I had a appointment with my psychologist today, dues to the Royal Wedding my weekly routine has been messed up and that always sends me into a mass of anxiety. I asked what will happen when I am discharged and said that I am scared of not having any support. She said that I could get in contact with groups in the community, I can't really remember who she said, to be honest I wasn't really listening. She said that she can understand that I am scared, but I have had therapy for a long time and that I have been quite open about my unwillingness to change things, so there is no point in having therapy any more. I get what she says, I have had a lot of therapy and recently I have given up on wanting to change, but that is after years of trying so hard, of giving it everything I could and getting no where. I feel anyone would feel disheartened.

Around Christmas I was honest with her about my plans to starve myself to death, my psychologist sat by and watched as I went to a BMI of under 15, I was offered no extra help, just continued seeing my psychologist once a week, who is not a eating disorder specialist, every week I was told her my plans were still the same, she would say the same things and send me away with the task of thinking about why I was doing this etc. I was given NO other support. Just after Christmas the binge monster set in, I felt devastated, not because I was gaining weight and getting fat, but because every pound I gained was a pound further away from my goal of starving until I died. I even wrote this in a letter to my psychologist, I said to her that that was why I was so distressed, that my goal was getting further away, still I have had no extra support.

I am crying as I am typing this, I feel so so low. What do I want from her? I do not no any more, but I no being discharged is not fair. I should be being offered more help, not having it taken away.

Over the last few years I have done so much damage to my body, yes I no I have done it, nobody made me do it, but nobody tried to stop me either. Nobody has reached out to protect me. I have to confess I am jealous, when I see some of the support other people have had, I wonder what it would have been like if I had of had the same.

I love my psychologist, she is the only person in the world that I have ever truly let in, but I feel like she has just sat back and let me destroy myself. Once when my self harming was massively out of control, I had had operation after operation on my wrists in a matter on months due to cutting the tendons again and again, my family rang my psychologist and begged her to do something, to have me sectioned, she said that if I was determined to hurt myself then I would do it no matter where I was. Can you imagine how distressing that was for my family, I no it was me doing it so it is my fault, but nobody tried to protect me, I just got the same one hour a week with my psychologist. I was so ill, I must have been to be carving into my wrists the way I was, why didn't someone protect me?

All along it has been the same, the only times anything else has been offered was when my CMHT were starting a DBT course, I went for an appointment to see if I could join the course, I was denied because I was to unwell, I couldn't even hold a conversation at the time, I was too anxious, too depressed. So it carried on the hour a week with my psychologist. Maybe I expect to much, like I say I love my psychologist, she has helped me a lot, but I do not no what to do any more.

Bloody hell, I can hardly see the screen as I am crying so much. My original goal is back, this time the binge monster isn't going to ruin it, I guess one good thing about the fact I am being discharged in June is that there will be nobody to interfere, but mind you nobody would have done any ways. 

6 comments:

  1. Please please don't cry I feel so so sad thar your feelig like this wish I could do more than offer my love and cuddles! Hate to think o you crying as you type. And hate the thought of you having no support and having no want tonlive and be healthy and I don't want you to starve to death ! I reallly really care abut you, your amazing and someone now consider a good friend :-( is there anything j can do for you? Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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  2. Oh Amy, this is so heartless of them to leave you without support. Your psychologist should have been replaced by someone with empathy. Don't give up because of this, keep strong. You'll be moving to a new flat and things . will get better. Hugs <3 xx :)

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  3. I can't believe they're giving up, that's horrible beyond words. You deserve so much better, you're a lovely person and all you've been through is even more of a reason to fight.
    I'm not saying it will be easy to get the courage to fight, but it is possible Amy. Believe me, it is <3
    Sending you all my love
    xoxo

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  4. Amy, just hang in there till you get your new flat.Think of Bobby, Betty and Ben.They love you. How will they cope if you get really ill? The comments on here show you have good kind friends that really care about you. I KNOW that doesn't take the hopeless feeling away and probably makes you feel guilty. Have you tried talking to other girls who are feeling as bad right now? Sometimes helping others is far easier than helping yourself and will make you feel a whole lot better.

    I felt this bad in hospital. I got sooo down I planned my own suicide. It made me feel better thinking I had a way out......it WASNT.Listen Amy, you have suffered so much you KNOW what its like. You would be sooo good empathising and helping teenagers going through the same.....You are on this planet for a REASON. Maybe a young teenage girl is feeling EXACTLY the same and DESPERATELY wants YOUR help and empathy.

    Trust me, it would make you feel so much better to help someone else and you would be f****g BRILLIANT at it........BRILLIANT!! coz you CARE!!

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  5. Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
    When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
    These are the quotes of a person who couldnt see or hear but because someone cared there with us today her name was Hellen Keller.I care !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    LORD OF THE BROKEN DREAM














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  6. I can understand your feeling, i can understand how tiring it can be to keep fighting and dont get anywhere.
    But sometimes, when we feel lost we have to look around us. You are not fighting alone, you are not walking in this labyrinth on your own.
    Recovery is possible, but the starting point is when we decide to trust and let go, and share our fear and let people come in and help us.
    Instead of being home self harming, go to a friends place, to your parents.....start sharing and fighting together. Because is the people that loves you that is gonna hold you when you feel u want to vanish. Its the people that cares that will be there. And its them the ones that will suffer the most if you just give up and decide to die. You are an amazing person, you have helped me, more than you actually think. So please dont give up! Its a new starting not the end!

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