- Date posted
- 1y
I'm messed up
Tw: vent I think I romanticise mental illness and I'm terrified that I find it attractive. I don't believe this - I LITERALLY STRUGGLE EVERYDAY but I STILL somehow think mental illness is cool for other people. I'm worried I might be attracted to it ffs - I'M MESSED UP. I feel so awful and I hate that I'm like this. I tell myself "no, you know that's wrong" but it's like my view is so messed up that I'm like nah. I hate it and I'm so scared. I can't take anything else. Day after day another thing comes along and at this point.. I'm just gonna have to accept I'm an awful person, right? I know thoughts don't define a person but I can't keep giving myself the benefit of the doubt. I'm so scared. I don't know what to do anymore. Everyone says "oh, well, thoughts don't define you, it's only if you act on them! :)" but how am I meant to live with myself. I'm just so done with everything. My brain feels like when you're drawing, and you rub something out, draw over it again, rub it out, draw again, until the paper is falling to pieces and you can't do anything with it anymore. There's just so many things wrong with me and I don't even deserve to be posting anything here. I've prayed, I've vented, I've apologised over and over to whoever in the universe is listening, but it's not enough. I'm sick of trying to be good anymore. I'm sick of giving it my all. I'm sick of being a sick person. I just want to be good. Why is that too much to ask? I don't want to hurt anyone. I don't want to have bad thoughts and views. Why isn't that enough? Thoughts don't define me, blah blah blah blah. Maybe they don't, but how am I meant to live with my thoughts? I'm the one that's in my head, that's having to hear these thoughts and constantly tell them to be BETTER. They're not intrusive, I know they're not. I know that's a classic ocd thing to say but please just trust me. I'm tired of people telling me they're "just intrusive". I know some can be, but these are genuine thoughts and I'm tired of denying it. I know everyone can be better and change, but how am I meant to when I DON'T KNOW HOW?? I just need someone to tell me HOW. I know I would never ever hurt even a fly. I just want to scream and cry until someone tells me how to fix this. I would never want to die, of course not, I just want to know how to be better, how to be the change I want to see in the world. I just want to be good, that's all I've ever wanted. I'm not here for reassurance, I just want somebody to understand for once.