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Another day

By: RichardW
Mood: Lonely
Date: Mar 22, 2008
Music: Radiohead - There there


For all the people who know me, i did that stupid and cowardly attempt a little while back, damaged my liver etc and am still here with the same frustrations. Taking new meds to control my Biopolar and havent cut for a while so a suppose things are ok. After reading some peoples thoughts of me being selfish to my son and wife, i have had time to reflect. My wife has forgotten my attempt already and has fallen into making the same old arguements and demands as before and is making life again so awkward. Then there is my gorgeous son, i love him with every breath i make, i worship him but then my dilemma. The meds are working sort of, yes, but the scars from my cutting, the obvious scars on my wrists (six in all), my eyes not ever again to be a healthy white due to my body deteriation and then my mind. Ups, downs, ups downs, panic attacks, paranoia, memmory loss, suicidle thoughts. Again, why was i selfish to attempt to kill myself, does my son really want to see all this. Does he want to get to know the fallen father or have people tell him good stories of when he was well. Selfish, i think not, my son should be with someone who can teach him good things, someone strong minded not weak, someone who can walk down a street without having paranoid seisures. My shrink thinks i am very complex, more like he is unable to help, i get more help from this site to be honest, i can talk to people who really know rather than a book worm. My scientific mind is always in overdrive, i swear to all that reads this, i am only calm and relaxed when i help others, it saves me from my madness, my star sign, my duel identity. My health is sooo bad, but i dont care, i just want my son to not have my ailments, but i think more and more from anallisiing him that he will do so i have to be around to help him when it starts. How the hell can i when i dont understand myself. I cant get my true feelings out on paper, i am a person to person man, but when i offer help it is deemed that i want something. Is this what the world has become. I was once a Deep Coal Miner, where people helped one another but then came back into the world, a selfish world were someone cant offer their help without a alteria motive. Jesshhh. The tangents of my mind. Always asking questions. To all the people who know me, dont worry i not ever gonna try and kill myself again. I a failure at it, 4 times i have failed, its a joke. But one thing i have learned on my reflection of recent happenings, I AM NOT SELFISH!!!!!    

I am me, take it or leave it, no bull, just straight forward, no s**t me. By helping you if you'll let me, you are actually helping me.



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From: esmerael
Apr 12, 2008, 08:40 am
you are not selfish and nor are you cowardly, honey. anyone who claims this does not understand what a cruel and insidious illness this is. none of us tries to take our lives out of petulance or to hurt people. it is a last act of sheer despair. you ought not be judged on it and nor ought you judge yourself by it, because there is more to you than desperation.[br]and i do not believe that you offer your son a father who is broken, but one who is strong, who has survived, and who can teach him that suffering is not the same thing as weakness.[br]take care, dear. peace and strength.xxx

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Apr 10, 2008, 12:51 pm

janean; wrote;  Please dont ever think your son would 'be better off with a different man'.   

I have five son and one daughter and as sad as it sounds I have thought about suicide i figured they'd be better off well i dont know how or why but someone must have got through to me because those same kids I thought would be better off without me ARE what Keeps me ALIVE today, We are making it see I have two sisters that I figured could raise them, plus aunts from our marriage but then I thought they would be split up and I did not want that either, I'll raise them I brought them into this world what they decide to do when they are older is their time to have a life, my oldest is 18 and my youngest is 10 with four more in the middle. eight years till the youngest is out of high school, by then I should have some grandkids from the older ones, i think that is what all is keeping me going, i have not seen any green grass on the other side.



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Mar 22, 2008, 09:01 pm
It's good to know things are getting better for you since that suicide attempt.

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From: janean
Mar 22, 2008, 06:29 pm

Oh! Dear Richard!!!

my sister committed suicide in 88 and left two young daughters behind. They had no better mother after that. Sure she had her problems as mom did, I have and another sister has but only one mom can make a difference the same as one dad can make a difference!! The girls had abusive step parents (they each had different dads) and bad lives until the older girl moved out on her own and took in her little sister and raised her. They are doing remarkably well for themselves now but they had to do it on their own. PLEASE, Please dont ever think your son would 'be better off with a different man'.

We love you Richard, and we are here for you. He will one day grow up to understand who you ARE and he will love you just the same.



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From: saphyrre
Mar 22, 2008, 05:44 pm
i must concur with what dazed said...you are his only father. the one who he will look up to, and want to be strong for and with. i have to be here for my kidlet...more and more each day tho, i'm learning that i WANT to be here for the kidlet. to show him that his mama does love him, that he isn't the reason i am sad, mad, upset, or angry all the time. i want to be able to show him that there are good things that come from his mama...but the good comes with the bad...and vice versa. i am a good mama. i will always be a good mama, and the kidlet will always love me because i'm the only mama he has.      don't give up on the father in you. doesn't matter what ppl on the outside are saying, it's what you truly want on the inside that matters...you want a son who loves his parents and will cherish them until he gets to put them in a nursing home and laugh his way to the bank. (lol sorry couldn't help but add that in there...)    the kidlet will always be here for me, and in return, i will always be here for him. take care.

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Mar 22, 2008, 04:56 pm
hey you know although you may think that your son deserves a well healthy ect ect what you said there father. The thing is bud your son needs HIS father no matter what kind of rut he's in no matter how things are. This is the truth ..every child needs their parents and although you may feel as if thats not true it is. he'll always look up to his dad. My mom was once similar to what you describe there. it didn't  matter to me..she was MY mom and i loved her with all my heart no matter what. I'll stand by her side till the end because no matter what and no matter who noone could ever be better then my Own mother and father and thats just the way it is. it's the same in your situation. Replacements are never better. keep your head up bud not all days are bad x

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