OKAY i will admit this post is me admitting it. i really don't wanna tell my wife bc i am not at home and the usual arrangements are impossible. and if i tell anyone they will just be worried, ergo possibly more prepared but will pay for it in immediate stress (on top of regular stress from being working people). i could tell m., but she's in another city. moot point. so im writing it down. i will delete it if i deem it unsightly later, after different fear overcomes me.
whatever happened to me last summer? the mild psychotic episode? about 18 hours of percieved "sitting inside a meat robot" and being unable to say shit for unknown reasons? it's like that again but THE DIFFERENCE is i can talk in riddles now!!! no paranoïa, or maybe like... 10% paranoïa. for example this post is uncomfortable, but i seem to have had retained many of my analytical skills. they tell me it's semi-fine i can afford this post. i also had one hallucination then (i think it might have had been pareidolic, but like pareidolia usually doesn't affect me at all and that one scared me shitless) and nothing like that happened yet.
THE SIMILARITY between now and then is
- fucking nicotine withdrawal. i knew it i knew it. this time im very kind to myself and i only reached 2 week mark because i had bronchitis dammit. baby will go to hookah bar next tuesday okay baby?
- infatuation/obsession. luckily this time it's not a living breathing person, but rather a concept. i don't forsee collateral.
- my (trustworthy) therapist is on vacation. i do not discuss stuff like this with my other doctors. you know. i dunno if they can hospitalize me against my will, i think they don't, but im not risking even a remote possibility.
- whatever i feel when i feel a migraine aura, the neurological thing that makes my skin tight, an uneasy sinking feeling of exhilaration? it's here, 3 days and ticking.
- overcomplicated relationship to language returned. like have you noticed ï in paranoïa that's a neutral behavior, but i don't completely control it. commas, apostrophes, verbosity, unusual syntax.
- higher than normal libido like i know that's pain compensation you're not fooling me buddy.