I got really scared today. but i think, in the long run, its totally helped.
So, once again i found myself rocking up in a and e today.This was due to a number of reasons really. massive stress and anxirty, about pretty much everything you can think of.ive got til friday next week to get all my work in, and i really dont think its possible-and im not just being a pessimist here.and im terrified i wont be able to do it, because I NEED to move away and start uni, i need to settle somewhere else and start again in my head.and i cannot wait yet another year to do this, defering is totally something i do not want to do.uni will give me something to focus on after the court case, which i will need to get me through.and i want to get on with my life, yknow. the other big resaon is that i got such an arsy email from someone that should really know better. i swear my tutor is waiting for me to fial so he can be like 'well, you should have come to more lessons instead of sending so much time in hibernation, in hospital etc etc etc'. knob.
anyway so i ended up cutting quite deep again.cos im stupid and i forgot how much it fucking HURT last time.swell. so i get to a and e and nurse got kind of worried and hooked me up to loads of machines and things, cos i apparntly lost a bit too much blood.they ended up giving me some fluids, and i felt a lot better after that. anyway i saw a really nice doctor, who's seen me there before.shes so unjudgeental and understanding, said shes had friends in similar situations, and she gets how it might feel helpful to me. but she looked at it, and got all serious, proper doc mode. I nicked where i had started healing up inside from last time, and she said i was beyond lucky i stopped where i did.she also told me that if i do this again, im going to be in hospital for a long time, having a bowel ressection. apparantly internal scar tissue on your bowel is very bad news.and you end up woth colostomy bags.and she has seen it happen a few times, so she is not just trying to scare ten shades of hell out of me. if i nick that bllod vessel one more time, i will need a graft. she saw someone last year who had to have their arm AMPUTATED because they cut so much, and cut their graft off the artery so many times it could no longer be fixed, and had no blood supply.this woulb be BAD NEWS in your stomach.
FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUUUUUUUUUUCK!
pardon mon francais, im really freaked about this.ok, i knew you could do some damge, i was just in denial about how bad it could be.i thought id done the worst i could do.and what scares the hell out of me is that each time i end upcutting, its always worse than the last to get the same releif.
she wasnt saying it to lecture-she said it all really nicely-she just really wanted me to see what could happen.she said she was really worried about how deep i was cutting, and spent a really long time trying to help me figure out other thingsi could do.she even told me about 'safer' ways of cutting-which she totally wasnt supposed to-and said that its better to do a hundered shallow cuts than one deep as fuck one, and that mayve that would give the same effect.though, obviously, the scars would be a bitch.
the thing is, im really greatful for her for taking the time to make me see
but now i feel so ashamed of myself.and i didnt realise how scarily common si IS.and i cant stop thinking about the girl who lost her arm, and how she might have been feeling to get that way.
this is fucking terrifying.
i thought they were being over cautious with all the ops and scans i hd for my bowel.no one ever admitted to me just how serious the implications are.oh my freaking god.i feel scared anxious, and sressed.
which ironically, is triggering me to want to cut so bad.
i guess my self destruct button is jammed in. NOOOOOOOOOO i cant i cant i cant
i am taking total responsilbility for the way i react to my feelings here-i just really wish people would think more before they are so unneccessarily bitchy.
i really wish i had someone to talk this through with, cos it feels way to big right now.
i want to cut cos im scared about this,how screwy is that?but i know that i cant. I mean, i cant even change a hoover bad without making t spill out, what hope wouldni have with a stomach bag(im taking piss out of myself here, please do not think im being disrespectful to anyone-im truly not),
help please
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7 comments:
Vic, WHY ARENT THEY GETTING SOMEONE FOR YOU TO TALK TO AND WHY ARE THEY JUST LETTING YOU GO BACK HOME TO DO IT AGAIN???
Im so sorry but i am freaking out with worry about you and the fact that no-one seems to be doing anything!!??? I LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH!!! XXOO
Please message me or email me privately,PLEASE!! xxoo
i'm wondering the same as jennifer a little... but also, i am glad the doc was so good, she sounds like she helped at the time?
i really want to help lovely, but i dunno what to suggest especially since i'm guessing you've been told all the breathing/ice/elastic band tricks before...
*HUGS*
xoxo
I'm so worried about you hun, and the lack of support you have recieved throughout all of this is really scary itself. I wish I had some useful advise or words, but all I can say is you deserve better help and support than you are getting.
SI is really majorly serious business, and you and all other sufferers deserve to be taken seriously.
Hugs
Sarah x
You do deserve to be treated better. But Vics, in all seriousness you CAN'T do that again, I really really really really really really really don't want you to have all of those scary implications. I have no experience of SI. I was wondering if there were ANY types of group therapy near you? Or maybe you could go to your GP and just be completely straight with them and tell them you NEED a one on one therapist, not a 'play dough team', just you and someone else to talk to.
You're worth so much more than a cut in your bowel.
xxxx
hun, you gotta stop. I know it's hard, trust me I do, I have at least a hundred of my own scars, but we want you to be around. It's very very hard to stop, I know from my own experience, but once you stop, it really does get easier the longer you try. Please please try to stop.
*hugs*
Sarah
Aw Vics...I think personally I would disagree with the doctor about multiple shallow cuts over deep ones, because with me, shallow ones always led to deeper ones. I couldn't pick and choose, if I cut myself I would want to keep going. But other people might be different. I wish you'd been offered better support too but I'm not surprised you weren't, freaking NHS.
You have a pretty good relationship with your GP, right? Does she know that there are residential units for people who self harm in the UK? Long term ones I mean, therapeutic communities where you can go for a few months or a year to get real help. There's one called the Crisis Recovery Unit in Kent (they take referrals from all over the country), and another called the Henderson Hospital. I know two or three people who have been to the Henderson. I know it would mean deferring your university place for a year but it is so important that you get better support to stop self harming, it could be life changing. I have links - Crisis recovery unit: http://www.slam.nhs.uk/service-finder/service-details.aspx?su=SU0308¤tPage=0&speciality=Mood%2c+Anxiety+%26+Personality+Disorder
There's been a suggestion that the Henderson might close so it'd be better to ask your doctor about that. But maybe it'd be worth thinking about?
There's also the Acorn programme in York - http://www.theretreatyork.org.uk/ourservices.php?ref=21 and the Cassel therapeutic community in Richmond.
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