Put me out of my misery. If I can't have the me that worked so well for so long, I'm not interested in making do with this bland, colorless, unappealing version.
In the last week I've gone from sobbing and raging b/c my best friend has been diagnosed with something icky - treatable, with an almost certain chance of full recovery, but icky icky icky nonetheless - to a jaunty hypomania that's made me productive, sleepless, and irritable. Between Friday and Sunday nights I got a whopping 5 hours of sleep.
Last night, Bowser strongly suggested I take extra Seroquel to knock me out. This morning I woke up feeling like someone sat on my head and stole my feelings. I hated it. HATED IT! I was fully aware that there was an empty place where my feelings had been and a give-a-shit attitude where my energy had been.
I SO get it, May. Sometimes it's not too bad, sometimes it's even fine, but then there's times like this where you just roll your eyes whilst squinting and clenching your teeth and the only thing to say is
Fuck it.
I can't put you out of your misery, but I'll sit here with you. We're supposed to be loving company right now anyways.
"I compare myself with my former self--not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been mildly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In short, for myself, I am a hard act to follow."— Kaye Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
About Me
May Voirrey
I'm a middle-aged woman living under the delusion that I'm much younger. I'm married, and have a canine/feline assortment. I am estranged from almost everyone, especially after they all couldn't run away fast enough when I was first diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and then became suicidal--and dared to talk about it openly. I work with people from all over the world. I probably could have done something great in my lifetime, but my brain didn't cooperate long enough for that to happen, so I proudly embrace my averageness, mediocrity, and limited contributions to the betterment of mankind. So much wasted potential. Oh well. I have a lot to say about that and many other things.
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In the last week I've gone from sobbing and raging b/c my best friend has been diagnosed with something icky - treatable, with an almost certain chance of full recovery, but icky icky icky nonetheless - to a jaunty hypomania that's made me productive, sleepless, and irritable. Between Friday and Sunday nights I got a whopping 5 hours of sleep.
Last night, Bowser strongly suggested I take extra Seroquel to knock me out. This morning I woke up feeling like someone sat on my head and stole my feelings. I hated it. HATED IT! I was fully aware that there was an empty place where my feelings had been and a give-a-shit attitude where my energy had been.
I SO get it, May. Sometimes it's not too bad, sometimes it's even fine, but then there's times like this where you just roll your eyes whilst squinting and clenching your teeth and the only thing to say is
Fuck it.
I can't put you out of your misery, but I'll sit here with you. We're supposed to be loving company right now anyways.
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