Drowning

I feel like I'm drowning at the moment. Nerves are wrecked. I'm always in sensory overload and my body feels like it's on fire. 

I've been thinking about death a lot lately. Death sounds so peaceful, well not dying that always sounds horrible but actually being dead is an eternal sleep and when I'm asleep is literally the only time I'm not anxious and feeling the effects of life and its many rubbish bits.

I'm not about to kill myself mind you. Don't think that. I just think sometimes it would be a lot better if I wasn't here annoying everyone.

Mentally I'm a bit rubbish I've been sectioned before but I'm trying to move on from that. My autism is triggered by most things and I feel like I'm constantly swimming but the waves pull me under and that's when I get in a panic and struggle. I hope I'm describing this well enough it makes a little sense to me.

I am keeping busy by reading my David Walliams books they are my favourite ones. But my eyes are tired so I can't at the moment.

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  • I found out most of our bad mental state comes from believe in what others especially medical professionals tells us, and most of it is rubbish

    just ignore those comments, there is no other way, laugh in your mind when you hear them

    from the fact you are talking about it it is clear you are not going to do it, but you can use this as a learning experience so if at any time in the future that kind thinking returns so you'll be prepared to prevent it from happening, there is no hurry to go to the other side already

    find something peaceful to watch or think. I imagine green open fields, deep blue sky with no clouds, and no people in sight or hearing range

  • have you ever been drowning? maybe the feeling is from that moment? I did first time on a deep water, rescued by lifeguard

  • It's interesting to realise how many people have at least one literal near-drowning experience in their past. I had a bad experience once like that as a child. I often wonder what was the closest I've been to death in my nearly 45 years. Whether it's something obvious, like the time I had a stack of pallets come crashing down next to me in a warehouse, or if it was some oblivious moment where a hypothetical person intent on a random stabbing might have passed me in the street, or a blood clot passed silently though my heart in the wee small hours of the morning. 

  • thank you

    I'm scared to think how it made my mom feel

    but I was a very difficult to stop as a kid, only my granpa had influence over me

  • Wow. You've had so many near-misses, that's incredible that you're still here. Glad you are :-)

  • So, swimming pool happened when I was 11

    Before that I had 2 serious head injuries, I was knocked out for few hours.

    First one at age of 5, falling of the ladder (I dragged indoors to explore top of the wardrobe when there was nobody around) that tilted backwards, and i ended hitting back of my head on a corner of the the table, my mom found me unconscious 5h later in a pool of blood, I came back to awareness 3h after that

    Second, at age of 10, winter time in February, snow everywhere, after Sunday mass, I run out of church to overtake people leaving and avoid crowds on a way home, it was downhill, with 20 stairs at the bottom of the hill covered with snow, just before crossing the street, I forgot to slow down, and slipped, knocked back of my head on the edge of a step, I woke up 2h later in a pool of blood, all those 500 people attending mass passing by didn't stop to help me, all good christian samaritans, since then I'm agnostic.

    after that I'm indestructable, not even my suicide attempt to freeze in a forest worked, I spent 2 days, naked at -30C, hunger made me  go back home, I was 14. we get strange ideas how to do it sometimes, I didn't know yet about my cold resistance

    I was hit by motorbike once, and once by car on foot

    i was hit by a car overtaking me when cycling twice on a busy road, I fell off the bike

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  • So, swimming pool happened when I was 11

    Before that I had 2 serious head injuries, I was knocked out for few hours.

    First one at age of 5, falling of the ladder (I dragged indoors to explore top of the wardrobe when there was nobody around) that tilted backwards, and i ended hitting back of my head on a corner of the the table, my mom found me unconscious 5h later in a pool of blood, I came back to awareness 3h after that

    Second, at age of 10, winter time in February, snow everywhere, after Sunday mass, I run out of church to overtake people leaving and avoid crowds on a way home, it was downhill, with 20 stairs at the bottom of the hill covered with snow, just before crossing the street, I forgot to slow down, and slipped, knocked back of my head on the edge of a step, I woke up 2h later in a pool of blood, all those 500 people attending mass passing by didn't stop to help me, all good christian samaritans, since then I'm agnostic.

    after that I'm indestructable, not even my suicide attempt to freeze in a forest worked, I spent 2 days, naked at -30C, hunger made me  go back home, I was 14. we get strange ideas how to do it sometimes, I didn't know yet about my cold resistance

    I was hit by motorbike once, and once by car on foot

    i was hit by a car overtaking me when cycling twice on a busy road, I fell off the bike

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