It is hard to look at few past posts Iâve written here. For my mind was not completely one at those moments. When I took a glance at my writings it made me even cringe, yet I didnât delete them. Why should I ? I asked myself. Am I ashamed of the vacant language and deeds Iâve done? Do I care what people think of me when they read it? It is not like you can change the past or what happened. It is what it is. So accept yourself how you are and what you do.Â
Astonishing how controversial I can be. I can confront anyone but canât sometimes confront myself. Afraid of no one but I scare myself the most.Â
So Iâm not going to mind whatever or however I wrote. Those were the feelings at that very moment and they needed to be recorded. With limping grammar or temporary excitements administrated by bleakness or substances. I need to write down every thought that has a meaning or a buried logic. Record as much as I can before IÂ deliberately or accidentally slay myself.
Astonishing how many and how diverse barriers I am put to run and jump over on my way. And I donât even know where Iâm going. Forward, just forward.Â
Let me tell you something substantial. When I started writing this blog I had no idea I would be after two years here where I am today. Part of me hoped it would be a journey walking towards a better, more satisfactory life where I document my development. Those two years have showed me that there is no such thing! Even if you really pull yourself together there are events and things that wonât depend on you. Life can surprise you in the most unpredictable way. Change your plans and add on new obstacles. Make you do things you never thought you would ever do.
And what I think today is that itâs totally fine. Itâs okay. If you assent the possibilities of suddenness. Because I tell you - things happen whether you want it or not. Itâs how you attend and play on that moment of turmoil or how you handle the âpost-warâ. In here I believe it is necessary to be a little selfish in non-harmful way towards others. Let me give you an example I had to go through lately with. What I call - a Mania Love.Â
With past relationships I have wondered how they end up very alike. A couple months of mirage and then falling hard. And it is not because it takes usually few months for one to get to know another one. That too of course. But what I mean in my case is freely said:Â âFeeling like, was I drunk the whole time I was dating?â Now digging a bit more deeper. In cases where one (or both) have medical issue, in my case mental disorder(s). Sometimes that one can misjudge the feeling it is felt during the relationship. I have wondered many times, through all of my life how come I truly believe to be in love with a person, and one day I wake up and feel nothing as if someone took that chemical away from my brain while I was sleeping. Now that my dear ones, is a result of Mania Love.Â
Whether for bipolar or borderline personality disorder, in my case I believe to have a mix of those both (yes that IS possible!) and when I think to be in love with someone, that is really a coincidence of meeting a likable person while your mind is producing chemicals that makes you feel overstimulated and manic. Once those chemicals are starting to run down you will find yourself in a point where you donât even know how the hell you ended up in here, thus feeling like you were drunk the whole time, even when you were physically 100% sober.
It took me quite many ex-s to get to that point, where from all of different options of a failed relationshipâs reasons you find truly the right one personally for yourself. I recently broke up with Sancho. And that was the breaking through relationship that took me to this point. It helped a lot that we were couple of years friends before we one day randomly decided to start dating. For me it meant that I already have a respect for the person and he doesnât have to âearn itâ. Also that I valued his friendship that much, that before starting to do my usual what I tend to when I wake up one day feeling âWell this ride is overâ and instead of being honest I unconsciously start manipulating my relationship in a way that another would leave me instead of being that cruel one myself. I have to say again - unconsciously, because the main surface is still hoping for the impossible one, that maybe this time it will go differently. Maybe this time it will work. But it never does. Because it was not a real love. It was something that a certain condition of your brain played you with. So you were literally manipulated by your own brain. Hoping and believing for something unreal.
I have a hard time with hurting someone, I would choose anytime to carry the pain myself if I could spare another ones feelings. So when I got that terminal feeling being with Sancho it put me in a very hard situation where Iâd have to make a decision whether with what I was used to or hurt someones feelings with a quick break up by confronting myself and do things differently this time. I have always had a bit of different connection with him because only when you have the same or same-a-like disorders you can really understand another one. So met him being totally sober and told him exactly how I felt. I was ready for any kind of reaction. That was an experiment with myself in order to find a better working solution for obscure situations like that. And for my surprise the outcome was far more satisfactory I was ready for. He understood me completely and was calm and on that very moment I felt I had jumped over another a truly BIG hurdle I have had with myself on that running track. We remained as friends like we were before.
Another interesting example was my recent experiment with drugs. Now I have to mention I have always been a very lousy drug lover, I had my couple of moments back in teenage years but then it stopped until starting dating a junkie. And because too easily accessible accessory on the table. While already running with mania, my brain producing manic love and bipolar wanting to satisfy its dangerous extreme adrenaline streams. That became a guilty pleasure. Well... to be honest not very guilty. Because I dodged the bullet of addiction but was really rather playing a Russian roulette. Drugs or alcohol became an energy to run with when I got bored. And boy was I bored! Mania doesnât care how risky your ways are to find adrenaline, it just wants it and it demands it NOW. And whatever is the closest, is going to be played. Welcome to the wonder and madness of Bipolar life!Â
On the other side of shore I was cool as cucumber, well cucumber with anxiety and depression of course but I didnât need any extras to kill boredom. The other side for myself personally was even more destructible. It took me totally off from communication with anyone, anyone at all. I would silent my phone, stay offline from all the social media options. Lock myself in and rarely step outside. Perhaps only when I needed to get some groceries. Another harmful behavior appeared. This one is my long addiction of 10 years. The bulimia is far more dangerous as you think. As with substances you only have one day of hangover and you continue your life normally, then being asocial can lock you up for weeks or even more, while being totally sober and knowingly hurting your health. I did not do this for weight reasons I did not do this because I enjoyed it. I did it because. Just because.Â
And I have wondered and tried to find an answer for the reason, now I might have a guess but I am still not fully aware. Even when BPD & bipolar are on their standby mode and mania is off the table, somewhere deep inside my brain there are still reactions going on. Whether itâs Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or wanting to have at least a little ruling of your life, it has chosen this way to express. I feel like I always need to have Something, whether its this or that but something is always playing in the background. I believe it might be for the reason I have never truly had a stable life, except some years of marriage, Iâve always had some kind of a âwarâ to deal with. Thankfully for that rare experience of marriage I do know however that I am able to have a stable life and even enjoy that without seeking excitement from shady places. But in order for that I would need to get that therapy I have waited for like a Godâs revelation. And by this we get to my next point. The life in polyclinic.
I have already written before how hard and nearly impossible it is to get a right therapy in this country. Iâve been in my polyclinic now for 4 years and besides been falsely diagnosed and prescribed with oh so very wrong medication i have not gained any help from there. Changing doctors didnât help much because I still have to go through all ridiculous obstacles the system demands and just yesterday when I had my another stressful appointment there I learned that they had forgotten to tell me a very important fact about covering the cost of therapy. Obviously if you are rich you can step inside a first therapy-center and pay loads for your mental health but since I have no other income than being unemployed (which status is caused by my illness and lack of treatment) then I have to rely on the funding from organisation of the government. And obviously it is made as hard as its possible, bureaucracy with this system is solid. It can be reached if you commit your life and energy on getting it. And since I have no other options, and is really the most important and only thing that is left in my life - my questionable health, I have to dance by their book. If I ever even think about getting somewhere or doing something in my life.Â
I know I am supposed to be all sober, but look at the simple facts - how long this have already taken. Without therapy and medicine. Left just to deal myself and my disorders on my own as best as I can. I donât blame myself for substances here and there. I do however manage to get to every appointment and accomplish all of my responsibilities. I only ask myself, for how long ?
If I see homeless or extremely drunk people in streets mumbling on their own and looking as they have lost their minds I donât anymore think that this is a result for heavy drinking. These are people who were supposed to be patients in clinics taken cared of on RIGHT TIME. I could be there already or I could end up being there. I donât blame people who were not as strong and stubborn in continuing impossible mission. I could end up there any day, or I could end up accidentally or deliberately killing myself. You canât just leave sick people on streets and later blame them being loco drunk or high. There were reasons why they ended up in there. I guess thatâs enough of reason for me to march on with those silly rules of system and let life to surprise me what ever happens next.
My last weekend was crazy, partly guided with mania. After my break up I felt like wild bird out of cage. I needed to find something frenzied. i needed to have furious sex breaking furniture and ending up in hospital with an injury. I needed something that would not be boring. And something that would take away my mind from that hard race Iâm on. I needed to flirt with death and challenge myself. I needed to find new exits and discover new routes. I needed everything and anything. I needed to have fun with my Evil Twin Sister. I needed to do whatever The Fcuk I Want!
And I did. And also I broke my ribs, once again. Oddly I wasnât disappointed or sad when I stepped down (elegantly by the way) from that train. I have already had broken ribs about 2 years ago so I knew the drill. You wonât get cast on your upper body but I choose not to take painkillers. Because pain is good, pain is your friend, if you feel pain - you are alive. And also you know how not to turn or move so you wouldnât harm yourself more than you already are. So here I am, obtaining, obtaining and hurling and hurling. Every disaster is a worthy lesson. I am not sorry. Amazed by my strength and power. I am a true challenge. My whole life is a true challenge. And for some odd reason - I donât mind it anymore.
As my friend commented on my ribs:Â âIn Soviet Russia, broken bone is a minor injury.â Â I agree.
Have been a hurdler my whole life. This time I feel I am turning another page. And it shall be extravagant, like my soul.Â