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- 1y
Overstimulated an angry.
Life is so intense most of the time. I honestly can't function like other people do. I need to shower 3 times a day or I get overwhelmed and when I get overstimulated I get madddd. Like not like yelling but just silent and the need to communicate that I usually have goes away and I end up feeling really mean. I live in a group home and I'm always around people. Don't get me wrong, this is nothing new for me. I've lived in DCF for my whole life and with other people my age my whole life ya know? It's what I know. Buttt, I'm in high school and I work 3 jobs. I feel like I never have time and honestly I like it that way until I hate it that way. A lot of the time I push my own needs aside and I know how bad that is for me as someone who is diagnosed with CPTSD and Sensory processes. And OCD of course. My OCD presents as organization with my life. I need to feel like I'm in control and will push myself to a breaking point trying to do the absolute most that I can be doing while staying so strict about how I exist. I find myself breaking down every week in some type of way. I always get through it. The fact that I get through it proves to me that I can and will keep going but that doesn't mean it isn't so hard. I don't have a Mom and dad to fall back on if I mess up. I'm 18, if I do mess up bad enough DCF will kick me out and I'll be homeless. So I work. I work and I get straight As. Motivated by wanting a future and needing a place to sleep and food to eat. I like DCF but it's so hard having such pressure on me sometimes. I'm also the oldest in my house and the other people come to me when they need me. Keep in mind, one of my jobs is working at a therapeutic school with 5th graders that have IEP's. I love the job, I love the kids. Sometimes though, I don't get out of that mode when I go home. I also work at Dunks as a head closer. The second I turned 18 they gave me the title which was amazing but also so much pressure. I only turned 18 in September I love it though, don't get me wrong. It's kind of therapeutic to make coffee for people. But then I go home and it's just people and more people. In a place I'm supposed to be able to relax I literally can't sometimes and it messes with my time management which I get super OCD about. I hate being late. I also got called arrogant today by my third job. I work at a print shop and he told me that if I was going to go into the phyc field I need to be more humble. Yes I do talk about my jobs and sometimes I just don't answer people when they talk. And I am proud of the things that I'm doing and how I'm doing them because I built MYSELF. I don't and never will have mommy and daddy to fall back on. If I mess up I mess my whole life up. I know as someone who has been around phycology my whole life that arrogance comes from insecurity most of the time. I am insecure. I put a face on because working three jobs is hard. Keeping up with my personal relationships is even harder. Ya know, sometimes keeping myself breathing is a struggle too. I wake up every day and I say im going to do it because I HAVE to. I have no choice. This is my life untill I got to college. This is my world and I might as well make the best out of it. But I think he's right, holding my head so high because inside it's actually so low is pushing people to see me as arrogant because I am being arrogant. I can't push my feelings aside and look at someone and say "I hate this so much" I have to act like it's easy. If I don't then I won't do it. Because I can't bring myself past it yet. I've been stuck in a pity party towards myself before and it's not something I ever want to do again. So I act like I know everything so no one can doubt anything and they won't wanna ask questions. It's a wall I built to get to the place I need to go and that's honestly just pure survival right now. But he's right, I am arrogant. And it is immature to think like that but it's easier right now. People who see through my bullshit are the ones I keep around. I'm glad he told me though and I'm not mad. It's the people who are willing to risk a relationship with you to tell you about yourself that are the real ones. That was a lot, but yeah. Life is weird. I don't expect advice or you to read through this whole thing but that's where I'm at. Have a good existence, you can do this.