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My name is Casey. I love forensics. I am compulsive about keeping busy and being depended upon. I am trying to regain some sanity in this incredibly fucked up life I am forced to call my own.

High up on a deep depression
I'm only happy when it rains

Thursday, May 15, 2003

Medicate my fears. Make all this go away with a simple little turquoise and cream pill. Make my reality normality. Blend me. I'm sick of existing. Existance is futile. Medicate me and end this existance. I don't need to feel or think. Just sleep. Just eat. Just be. I am finished with this. Let the plastic emotions run through my veins. They tear me apart slowly, wholly. I am not in existance. I am not real. These emotions aren't being felt. These words aren't being spoken. This reality isn't seen by you... tears confused with rain... blood confused with paint... i see what you see. I know what you know. But i do not want what you want! I WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO SEND ME AWAY! Daddy, don't send me to a place where I will be watched. Where I will be ostracized. I am not sick. I AM NOT! I do not need help. I don't need to be watched. I don't need that. I need life.
posted by: my fears at 6:05 PM

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

I don't want help, I want consolation. I am very scared right now... as afraid as i will ever be. I don't want help, so stop thinking you need to give it to me! I don't want help and I don't want answers I just want a good cry and someone to talk to me until I fall asleep... which is a lot to ask of my friends... you don't know what to do... i don't know what to do... i am a heavy weight upon your shoulders that there is just no way to balance. Jason you are too uncomfortable.. would rather pretend it didn't exist.. Nicole you want to fix the whole problem, not the moment, which is admirable but ineffective... Zack you get so angry, and your rage doesn't make the pain go away.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in, but can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill that thing on the inside. Have you ever confused a dream with life, or stolen something when you had the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train was moving while it was still sitting still? Maybe I'm just crazy... or maybe I'm just a girl, interrupted.

My thoughts, my life, my escape has been interrupted by this apparent control that my form of control has over me. Places I never thought I'd touch are now forsaken... how? I am so afraid to stress myself out... or to relax... evil busies idle hands... it's a nice little catch 22. and i used to be okay with that.. what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.... but i have come to realize that what I thought made me stronger, happier, can kill me. It is a matter of life and death. Life and death are very close family, a small leap, a great slash apart... odd that you can cross from life to death, but never come back again. Of course there are pros to that... no more thinking til your head hurts, no more screaming, no more fights, no more burdens, no more lies, no more hurting others... only one last hurting yourself. But I cannot let go... i'm not sure anymore if it's more selfish for me to live or die...
posted by: my fears at 3:00 PM

I am not asking you for an answer. I am asking you for you. What we have is not so simple as to come to an exact and perfect answer. We must take it as it comes... We are trying so hard to solve these little variables while ignoring the whole equation staring us right in the face. Our equation is complex with a lot of variables to be solved... but we need to step back and think about what we're doing to our relationship for a bit. I'm straining and you're straining, and we're straining. I know I love you... and I don't ever want to let you go, but at times like yesterday I wonder if you+me can ever = 1... to be boolean... don't let the equation fail.
posted by: my fears at 6:48 AM

Sunday, May 11, 2003

A few things the people around me should read.

Okay, then isn't it just another way to describe a failed suicide attempt?

NO. People who inflict physical harm on themselves are often doing it in an attempt to maintain psychological integrity -- it's a way to keep from killing themselves. They release unbearable feelings and pressures through self-harm, and that eases their urge toward suicide. And although some people who self-injure do later attempt suicide, they almost always use a method different from their preferred method of self-harm. Self-injury is a maladaptive coping mechanism, a way to stay alive. Unfortunately, some people don't understand this and think that involuntary commitment is the only way to deal with a person who self-harms. Hospitalization, especially forced, can do more harm than good.

Should self-injurious acts be considered botched or manipulative suicide attempts? Favazza (1998) states, quite definitively, that . . . self-mutilation is distinct from suicide. Major reviews have upheld this distinction. . . A basic understanding is that a person who truly attempts suicide seeks to end all feelings whereas a person who self-mutilates seeks to feel better. p. 262. Although these behaviors are sometimes referred to "parasuicide," most researchers recognize that the self-injurer generally does not intend to die as a result of his/her acts. "[S]uicide attempts are reported not to provide relief, to be repeated less frequently, and to have less communicative value" (van der Kolk et al., 1991). "Patients with the [proposed Deliberate Self-Harm Syndrome] often suffer social ostracism and, in desperation, may attempt suicide (Favazza et al, 1989) [emphasis added]. Thus, although self-injurious behavior is not suicidal in intent, it can easily lead to suicidal ideation or even, when a self-harmer goes too far, suicide itself. Herpertz (1995) notes that self-injurers distinguish between self-injurious acts and suicidal ones, and Solomon and Farrand (1996) say "Although the [self-injurious and suicidal] acts themselves may blur, their meaning does not. What does emerge, though, is a link between the two acts in that one (self-injury) is an alternative to the other (suicide), and is preferable." In a review of the literature on self-injury, Favazza (1998) notes that only recently has it become generally recognized that self-harm is a morbid form of coping, one which is often turned to when suicide seems inescapable. He writes that "traditionally it has been trivialized ([delicate] wrist cutting), misidentified (suicide attempt) and regarding solely as a symptom [of borderline personality disorder.

Honestly! I am not trying to die. I promise. I don't know exactly what i am trying to achieve.. but it most indefinitely has ties to survival... thats the key thing here. as long as i'm still breathing.. my goal in life is survival... sad but true... just like me...
posted by: my fears at 9:46 PM

Thursday, May 08, 2003

Visionaries lie to themselves. Liars only lie to other people.

We're visionaries, you and I. Keep telling yourself you can quit. Necessity creates invention. "Some things hurt, and some things KILL YOU!"- A quote from undoubtedly my favorite sophomore. This hurts, but it can't kill me. You don't control death, or your afterlife. This is control, to die would be the loss thereof... but you, you are different. Why waste something as sweet as life? Count your blessings, please. Note all that you have to live for. Some things hurt, and some things kill you. Dont let the things that hurt kill you. Fire wipes away a trace of anything there ever was... such a complete way to become nonexistant. But it can't wipe away the memories without devouring those who hold them. What devours me devours you. You jump, I jump. I hate to use this cheap, inherently weak way of bargaining... how very pretentious of me to assume I'm something worth living for... but it's the only thing I know. He who thinks he knows everything has the most to learn. I started out the year with so very much to learn... but hume's right. acknowledge your ignorance, embrace it. realize you own weaknesses and defeat them. don't let them defeat you.

posted by: my fears at 11:01 PM

Wednesday, May 07, 2003

Red

Cruel, penetrating, seeping
Red
Controls my thoughts, my mind
Pain is happiness
Where happiness is fake
The sheet of my being
Stained with scarlet fear
This is not the way i feel
Sweet pain run rampant
Tear the sheet of my being
Mend the fabric of my mind
Thoughts clear, concise
Skin wrecked and ravage
I am nothing more to you
Than fear
And scar tissue
posted by: my fears at 7:16 PM

It doesn't hurt like it should.
posted by: my fears at 2:30 PM

Monday, May 05, 2003

Artist: Placebo
Song: Every Me, Every You

Sucker love is heaven sent
You pucker up, our passion's spent
My hearts a tart, your body's rent
My body's broken, yours is spent
Carve your name into my arm
Instead of stressed, I lie here charmed
'Cause there's nothing else to do
Every me and every you
Sucker love, a box I choose
No other box I choose to use
Another love I would abuse
No circumstances could excuse
In the shape of things to come.
Too much poison come undone
'Cause there's nothing else to do
Every me and every you
Sucker love is known to swing
Prone to cling and waste these things
Pucker up for heavens sake
There's never been so much at stake
I serve my head up on a plate
It's only comfort, calling late
'Cause there's nothing else to do
Every me and every you
Like the naked leads the blind
I know I'm selfish, I'm unkind
Sucker love I always find
Someone to bruise and leave behind
All alone in space and time
There's nothing here but what here's mine
Something borrowed, something blue
Every me and every you

My body's broken, yours is spent Carve your name into my arm Instead of stressed, I lie here charmed
If you haven't seen cruel intentions you should. Then watch american beauty. Then watch patch adams. After that you will be sad and forlorn and crying like me. I hate smiling. I feel like I should be miserable all the time, and I am miserable all the time, but I still have to smile that saccharin smile, laugh that hollow tinny laugh, and be strong because thats what they need me to be and thats what they want me to be. When will you people figure out, I AM NOT STRONG! I am so weak ...Instead of stressed I lie here charmed... I am such a failure. I can't even fail properly. Not good enough to succeed and live happily, but not bad enough to end all this shit. You're right nicole- I do deserve life for this shit. But I was right too, you know. I woke up and it was all still there. There is nothing worse than waking up to bad memories and heavy regrets. Nightmares are terrifying when you wake up and realize that that wasn't a bad dream, but your life. This may seem so insignifcant to you, so normal of me... but it really is a huge deal. I SWEAR I AM NOT OVERREACTING! i don't wear it like a badge, with pride. i am ashamed. i always will be.
posted by: my fears at 7:03 PM

Sunday, May 04, 2003

Dissect it until it breathes no more. Take away the pain by discussing its roots and reasons until they become words strung together, embodying no emotion. Hide the fear of your future by planning every second. Waste away your present in anticipation of a future you know will never come. Examine your breathing until you forget its necessity, you forget its importance... you forget how. Fear to my mind like oxygen to my lungs- dizzying and dazzling, enough to make you tipsy and want to scream. Pick apart your life and its processes until they have no worth, no weight. Fight to find meaning in the meaningless, words in the silence, worth in the worthless. Dissect me until I breathe no more. Pick apart my life until it has no worth. Fight to find my meaning, my words, my worth. I am inevitably, the meaningless, the silent, the worthless. I am the afraid, the pained. My future will never come. Dissect me, for your sake.

posted by: my fears at 10:51 PM

I know you hate to tell me the bad news... you never quite tell me the worst of things... and that bothers me. It bothers me that you are willing to tell the whole world, or at least any random person who might read your xanga, before you are willing to tell me. So here's how it's going to go: I will not run. Ever. I am hear for you zack, and I don't care what some quack psychiatrist says, i wont let you run either. And, from now on, tell me everything. You're the only person I know who thinks I am strong, please, treat me as such. I don't ever want it to be worse than I think it is. There is a huge difference between "irreversible damage" and "a chance I might die." I know it's a scary thing to tell me... I know it's a big deal.. but we deserve to go through it together. I would prefer not to find out on your journal. I get scared very easily, Zack... the idea that maybe you aren't telling me everything is the scariest thing I may ever face. It terrifies me more than the worst news ever could, because it's always worse in my head. I'm asking you selfishly, and I realize this, but please zack, trust me. please.
posted by: my fears at 8:16 AM

Saturday, May 03, 2003

Ok, so I think I'm finished playing with my webpage... i hope you all like it. Actually... wait. I don't give a fuck if you all like it! This is my lil corner of webspace, so you can hate it if you want.... cuz i fit in here. Which is a nice change of pace. I love how the people you think you can trust, the ones you feel safe with, are always the first to betray you. I'm not going to lie like some people and say I don't do anything to deserve what comes back to me. I realize that this is all my fault. Ths is my frame of mind, and no one could change that if they tried. My blood is mine and no one elses, so please don't feel as if it is on your hands. Don't take it upon yourself to save me. I will not be somebodies charity project! i can't be my own worst enemy with friends like you. Don't let me make you sad. I am not being wasted. I am not some great bit of human potential being thrown away. I am alive, and will continue to be so. Be happy. I'm breathing. I want to explain to you guys exactly what an anorexic/bulimic highbred is. Here are the explanations of each. One in bold, the other italics. Then I'll turn it into a nice happy lil collage. Enjoy.

Kids and teens with anorexia tend to be perfectionistic and shy, as well as bright and high achievers in school and athletics. Girls with anorexia usually do not engage in sexual behavior because of their embarrassment about their bodies.

Kids and teens with bulimia tend to be more impulsive and outgoing. Behavioral problems such as sexual promiscuity, crime (often shoplifting), and drug and alcohol abuse are common in teens with bulimia. When kids with bulimia are caught up in a binge eating and purging cycle, they may become very impulsive.

tend to be perfectionistic as well as bright and high achievers in school and athletics tend to be more impulsive and outgoing Behavioral problems such as sexual promiscuity they may become very impulsive.


posted by: my fears at 3:34 PM

Friday, May 02, 2003

I changed my blog today... iono why. I get bored sometimes. I have been searching for anything to keep me busy. I know there are things to be done, I'm just not allowed to do them. Temptation is everywhere... while I was looking at those sites on my links bar, I went to a bunch of trigger pages. A trigger page is a page that makes you want to mutilate or starve (i.e. thinsperation) and they did exactly what they said they would.. triggered me to want what I know I shouldn't have. It doesn't seem so wrong when it's my body. It doesn't seems so wrong when I now he's far away. It doesn't seem so wrong when I want it so much.
posted by: my fears at 4:38 PM

Thursday, May 01, 2003

It's almost a form of pressure to have all this pressure taken off of me... like a soda can in a vacuum chamber, I colapse not because of the pressure, but because of the lack thereof. Can someone please have some expectations of me? I fear this sort of freedom. It's strange to go straight home after school, to have no homework, to find that my datebook is blank. Strange, strange strange. This is abnormal and I fear it and I am suffocated by all this free time. Evil busies idle hands.. someone busy my hands with something productive.
posted by: my fears at 4:05 PM

I want to turn inside out. I want my scars to be on the inside, my blood to be on the outside. I keep trying to figure out what my goal was in all of this- control? yes, i thinks it's nice to control your pain... but it just doesn't sound right. punishment? yes, i do repent for my tresspasses. but no, that isn't as deep as my problems go. release? yes, it is relieving to release the tension inside, but what else? there is more. i know it. i wouldn't want it so baddly if that was all there was. perhaps it is genetic. i am well aware that this sort of thing runs in my family. maybe my needs are coursing through my blood, maybe it wants to be spilled. maybe my stomache was made to reject food. maybe this is who i'm meant to be. or maybe i'm just crazy.
posted by: my fears at 6:33 AM

Wednesday, April 30, 2003

I'm very tired. It's been a long day. I think Vy hates me. Fuck it.
posted by: my fears at 3:36 PM

Tuesday, April 29, 2003

I'm falling apart... I meant to put together that book of poetry as a joke... to laugh at how crazy she thought I was... but I had to stand in front of the class and read a few of my poems and explain them... I read one about my childhood where I was accepted... the class went quiet and my words were heard by everyone. Especially me. I finally heard the reality of my own words I heard exactly how sick I have become. I now know exactly how much of my life I have forsaken. I know how much I have given up, and everything i will never get back. I am very sick, aren't I? I thought it was a joke and it ended up being truthful. Why does my humor torture me so? Why can't I for once make fun of the crazy kids without being one of them? Why can't I be a sarcastic rude teenager, as deep as a puddle and short tempered? Why can't I be normal? But no, I have cursed myself by writing spells of disgust onto my flesh. My teacher started to read the words I put on my journal.."Win. Win. Win. Win." "Failure is death." "Repent." "Punish yourself before they get the chance." Words meant to be the epitomy of a too-depressed overachiever, sick in more ways than one can count... and those were my words. They made sense to me. They fell out of my mouth naturally. I lie and pretend I'm normal for a while, but i'm still abnormal, inadequate, sick. I'm still what I was.
posted by: my fears at 3:01 PM

Sunday, April 27, 2003

It's odd seeing your skin... reflections of pain... its not going to be the same again, is it? the passion swept away by pensive remembrance... happiness is inside your arms... but i can see your pain. i see it. i really do. i promise i'm not looking past it. but i love you.. no matter what... i just know its never going to be the same again.... which is okay. things change. we grow and shift to adjust to eachothers needs and pains... it's okay. just different.

posted by: my fears at 10:17 PM

I know that me getting medicated sounds like a very good idea to all of you... but you fail to see the realitites of who it will make me. There is a balance that I have to weigh out. I could take medication, and be healthy. I wouldnt want to cut, but I wouldnt want to paint either. I wouldnt want to write, or act, or run, or be awake at all. I could take my medication and be nothing. Or, I could stay unmedicated. Yes, sometimes I'm depressed... sometimes I'm destructive, but sometimes I'm so alive that the whole world seems to bow to my productivity, creativity, my living. Sometimes every moment of my day is so filled with passion and intensity that my mind is swimming and racing and I pace so I can think and I paint and I write and I live. I live for those days. I live for them because that is when I am truly alive.
My options are;
Prozac: This is specifically for bipolar imbalance. It evens out the chemicals in your mind that make you happy and depressed so that you only feel one big emotion and all your days blend together. It takes away your creativity, but stimulates hunger.
Zoloft and other anti depressants: This would basically eliminate my down days. I wouldnt be depressed anymore, but my highs would be much more intense. Right now, when I'm on an up cycle, I sometimes dont eat or sleep for 2-3 days at a time, just because I am so productive. Zoloft could increase these cycles to 7-10 days at a time followed by 7-10 days of normalcy. This is pretty dangerous to me.

Chemicals aren't exactly an option for me. I really do like who I am... I like how I am. Have you ever heard of Stockholm's syndrome? That's when you fall in love with your captor... I think I have some weird form of that. I realize how what I do hurts me... but sometimes I love it. Give me an up day, and it's all justified. All that depression is worth it. If you could live my up days, and know the intense happiness and excitement I feel, and you could know how long it prolongs... you would understand. I really believe you would. Up days feel like... I've been holding my breath for 2 weeks, and I finally inhaled.
posted by: my fears at 8:01 AM

Saturday, April 26, 2003

Fuck... fuck... fuck. How do you forget to eat? I was goin pretty good all day. No slips in that whole being a good girl thing... Until this morning when I realized I forgot to eat for the entirety of yesterday. It annoys me that I can do something so stupid and be totally unaware of it. I changed my mind... I don't apologize, because apparently this is all my fault. Well oh fucking no, I'm depressed again and therefore no fun to be around. I am depressed again, so shouldnt you be there for me? Whatever. I see what kinds of friends I've made. I dont regret anything except for apologizing about who I am. You can't change me. I won't get drunk with you. And FYI, alcohol is a depressant. It would just make me worse. But thanks for insisting that I needed a chemical to be fun. Fuck it.
posted by: my fears at 5:09 PM

Friday, April 25, 2003

I am so worried about my friends. All this ditching and partying compiled is very, very bad. I just want them to be okay again. I want to talk to Jason.. it's been a while. I want to laugh and joke around and go out at night without drinking. I want to get together for more than just doing homework, forensics, and getting drunk. Why can't I ask that? I know it's wrong. And of course, they have the right to drink. I just really miss my friends. I feel excluded since they've found this new niche. I just don't want to drink. I don't want to play mommy. I don't want to be the only sober person. I don't want to ask so much of all of you, and I don't expect you to give it up for me. I apologize....
posted by: my fears at 7:13 PM

Thursday, April 24, 2003

I am not what i appear to be. Please, don't assume you know me anymore. Don't offer me suggestions on things you know nothing about. You treat depression as this dirty secret meant to be hidden. Well, depression is like a big pink elephant in the room. It may seem polite to ignore it, but it's too stressing. Too tense. Just talk about it. Don't criticize the way I express my emotions. I am so sick of being told to smile. I don't care if "sulking doesn't suit (me)" My emotions are my emotions. Let me be pensive and withdrawn. Having to concentrate on being better for your benefit only makes it worse. Tomorrow... tomorrow is going to be a good day. Nothing is a good distraction. Distract me.
posted by: my fears at 3:18 PM

Wednesday, April 23, 2003

my world seems to be purely fiction. what is reality when waves of confusion wash over your every waking moment until you drown in your own ignorance. reality is something lost when you decide to smile without being happy. reality is something forfeited when bleeding is breathing. reality is something stolen when starvation is the only way to prolong your life. i gave up reality a very long time ago. I gave up strength, sanity, and happiness with it. content is not something i will ever be. i demand the truth from others, but how truthful am i? sometimes you just have to give in to your desires. don't worry all of you over-nervous friends of mine. my skin is unscathed and my lunch is safely in my tummy. desire is subjective. believe it or not, my desires extend beyond the need for control. my desires aren't always just perfection. sometimes they're attention. sometimes they're satisfaction. sometimes they're someone. thank you for looking past my scars. attention drawn could have really killed the moment. moments die violent deaths in my life. I kill them with sardonic words... with comic relief... with anything that can stop that desperate intensity from building. i fear such an intensity. I fear the connection felt when conversation gets too deep... when too many secrets are being realized... i fear the intensity of staring into your eyes before you kiss me. i rush the moment, but you don't seem to mind. you didnt look into my eyes much either. are my eyes empty like those girls in the picture? have i surrendered my depth to an illness? have i traded in the control i so desire for that sparkle in my eye you said all those pictures lacked? you don't have to answer anymore... i already know you'll never see my body the same way. and i'll never see yours either. always searching for tracks of something destructive... for the marks that "happiness" and "calm" leave behind. my body will never be flesh again to you. it will be scar tissue, and the rest just blank canvas. my eyes dull orbs of steel blue. so it's all nothing. i'm not afraid of the nothing between us. it doesnt matter to me. nothing is sometimes very tangible. nothing can be held, and carressed, and touched. nothing is a nice passtime, and nothing is a good connection. never too intense. never weighed down with emotional baggage. nothing is what i need sometimes. i know you can give me nothing. Who am I talking to? So many different people who need to hear the truth and up to now I was too tired or too disillusioned to see it.
posted by: my fears at 7:02 PM

Sunday, April 20, 2003

I live day to day in a world where I have no scars I believe. In a world where I am normal. I joke with my friends and laugh and fit it. I talk to them about going swimming this summer, about going bikini shopping together. I put up a facade of my normality for the sake of my own state of being. Perhaps this is wrong, or unhealthy... but in my life, what isn't? It's easter. I just got an offer over brunch from my aunt-- would you like a summer job helping out at my day care, I need you to teach some kids how to swim? I'll pay you well, and it's only once a week. Of course, I smiled and said "I really wish I could, but I'm interning at a law office, and I have debate camp." Note that I do all the competitive events in school where it isn't necessary to be seen in a bathing suit or shorts. I'm a clever one. Forensics, mock trial, varsity quiz, literary arts. "Just dress nicely. Where your business clothes. Shorts are inappropriate. Lengthen that skirt, missy!" I flourish here. A world where I can be normal outside of my own dysfunction. A world where I can excel and compete and never have to bare my skin. Only one person has seen. I'm sorry about that. Still breathing... still breathing...
posted by: my fears at 11:56 AM

Saturday, April 19, 2003

Okay, so here's the breakdown of my life right now; I'm in love with a very special person. I am trying to get better. I am getting lectures daily about things people know nothing about. I love talking to nicole. Edgar makes me feel better. Jason makes me laugh a lot. Days are long, nights are restless. I think about him, constantly. I'm gaining weight I think.. I'd know if they hadn't taken my scale away. I don't think they know that that only makes it worse. Then I only have my personal opinions to go by. What is it now, 5 days? God. Seems like such a long time. Song stuck in my head, Aerosmith, "Don't wanna miss a thing." I feel like I've missed so much. I'm sorry. I look right past such obvious things... in retrospect, i could have helped it earlier, but hey. We're together on this one, now. I'm breathing. Don't ask for much more today.
posted by: my fears at 4:16 PM

Friday, April 18, 2003

and the tables have, once again turned. why does it sseem so different when it's not my skin? i can forsake my flesh, fine, but anyone else tries it and it seems so... tragic... double standardsfor all! but no, no double standrd here. we'll be strong together... still breathing, but only for one person
posted by: my fears at 10:11 AM

Thursday, April 17, 2003

Take that nosy bitches who sam gave my url to. Casey 1 Society 3,400,345,600,999 I'm gonna catch up one day. Closing in on 72 hours. No one cares but me. Hahahaha.... i'm tired and sick and bored of everything and i have work to do but i don't want to. kill me now. please? dammit, i'm still breathing. proud of me yet?
posted by: my fears at 2:31 PM

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

i am barely breathing and i cant find the cure

I got one up on you, third eye blind... i know the cure, and i know the disease.. the question is, which is which? when the bounds of pleasure and pain begin to blur... thats where the trouble starts. i can't know anymore. which is my savior and which condemns me? i refuse to not care. i love that you are so laid back, but thats just not me. your double standard just isnt cutting it. if you can free your mind, so can i. but i wont i'm a good girl. going on 48 hours straight. here's my plan; count the hours for motivation. just count until you lose track, and thats where healthy is. it was easy at first, but i just went out to dinner for the second night in a row. it couldnt be as difficult as i make it... just breathe. i am barely breathing. still breathing, nonetheless.
posted by: my fears at 8:46 PM

Monday, April 14, 2003

long long long weekend... so much pain. i hate quiet almost as much as i hate loud noises. don't pretend like i don't exist. I'm here and i did something wrong and you know it. learn to face it. you worry me when you turn away from my pain. you see nothing, but pretend to be there for me. the one thing in months upon months of pain and hurting that you see is my being in the wrong place. wow dad. you really are perceptive. you haven't caught on to the fact that i just play with my food when we go out to dinner.. that i bleach the shower after every time i use it.. nothing except the fact that i slept over at jason's. 1 out of 3 aint bad. i'm proud of you dad. still breathing, no thanks to you.
posted by: my fears at 7:54 PM

Friday, April 11, 2003

I hate everyone. I'm sick. I'm going to be very grounded. My dad will kill me. So much stress. My stomache hurts. Yuck. Still breathing. For now.
posted by: my fears at 1:17 PM

Wednesday, April 09, 2003

Is it just my paranoia, or is that ad up there specifically directed at certain people. I really am going crazy. i'm an emotional wreck. run. we pretend issues are resolved but they never really are. i'm still breathing. are you surprised?
posted by: my fears at 2:34 PM

Tuesday, April 08, 2003

I want to be touched... but I don't. I miss him. I love him. I want his hands around me... but the idea scares me. I know what he'll find. Dangerous.

Maybe Sam's right. I am pushing Zack away. That's bad. Very bad. I just need to calm down, step back, and let this relationship work itself out. Not let my fatal flaw be a factor in our relationship at all. I don't think I can have everyone knowing about it, talking about it.. I'm not sure I can take that. So for those of you who are reading this (I don't even know who that is anymore) it was all a lie. It's easier to say that. Everything on this site is a great story of fiction intertwined with my life. Don't believe it... and if you do, don't read it. thanks.

casey
posted by: my fears at 8:43 AM

Monday, April 07, 2003

I knew that the first time would be like opening up the floodgates. I wrote my first ever sonnet. It scared my teacher. Found out that I speak naturally in 10 syllable iambic pentameter. Crazy stuff.

The strength of love cannot defeat my pain
My want for you cannot remove my need
You fight a demon that will not be slain
You care, but that won't change that I will bleed
I'm not strong enough to give what you ask
My disease will overshadow your love
To be with me is not an easy task
It's easier not to, when push comes to shove
I will no longer mourn my own disgust
I will not allow your pity for me
I know that I can ony break your trust
Take this chance now to finally break free
We must move past this infatuation
For your sake, run from this situation

Haha. I made my teacher cry and spent 5th period in the counsellors. They checked my arms. Ignorance at work.

Casey

posted by: my fears at 3:03 PM

Friday, April 04, 2003

I fucking hate Mrs. Berselli. My mom has this great little image of me. I am perfect. I am strong. I am a force to be reckoned with. All it took was a few simple words from Mrs. Berselli and all that came crumbling down.
Mrs. Berselli: "Is your daughter a cutter?"
Mom: "No... why?"
Mrs. Berselli: Oh, I don't know.. she just seems like the type. She's got some classic symptoms."
Which was immediately followed by a confrontation with my mother until 3 in the morning about whether or not I am. My mom knows I've cut myself. She knows indepth about the bulimia thing, but she doesn't know I've done it within the last year. She thought I was past my problems. She watches me eat my junk food like a good girl. She watches me get perfect grades. She watches me work my way to the president of everything. She watches me be the perfect picture of everything she wants in a daughter... but she doesn't see how I do it. She doesn't see my scars. She doesn't see my self-loathing. She doesn't see me purge my food. She doesn't know. She doesn't need to know. And Mrs. Berselli, before even talking to me about it, feels the need to confront her. And my mom had to confront me. And we had to talk about it. And i had to go home feeling like the shit I am. I hate this. I hate that I do this to myself and the people around me. i am moving on to third round in both events. I don't care.
posted by: my fears at 12:36 PM

Thursday, April 03, 2003

This is all too much. How dare we just pretend it never happened? We are both hurting because of my stupidity. We are both in pain, we are both marked with that pain. I knew I would do it... it started with looking at the shadows of my scars, and then branched in to making new ones. I had to punish myself. I failed. I just wish he wouldn't have gotten hurt in all of this. I don't want to ever hurt him, and I did. It's so awful. I am a really awful person for all of this. I promised Vy that I would try to be different... I promised everyone. But I'm still the same... I'll always be the same... some people never change. I'll never change. I wish I could... for his sake. I wish I could be a better, stronger person for him... but I can't. I don't know how.
posted by: my fears at 11:34 AM

Monday, March 31, 2003

I don't want to hurt Zack, but the mental balance between his pain and my pain, his happiness and my compulsion fell through. 21 slashes on the inside of my thighs, crimson red on perfect, pearly white tile. Hate, anger, anxiety, stress, disgust, fear, and pain, all left ina puddle. It's so easy.

There's no way for me to not hurt him. I know that no matter what I say, I'll hurt him. I told him... I told him going into this that I could only hurt him.

Here are my options;
1. Lie to him, tell him I don't do it.
Pros: What he doesn't know won't hurt him.
Cons: He could find out first hand. I hate lying.
2. Keep doing it.
Pros: It keeps me sane
Cons: It hurts him.
3. Stop.
Pros: Everyone is happy... except for me
Cons: It's impossible
4. Remove myself from his company
Pros: I won't hurt him anymore
Cons: I don't want to live without him.

There is no right way to do this.
posted by: my fears at 5:35 PM

Saturday, March 29, 2003

Jason almost saw my legs. It doesn't really bother me.. they arent really scars anymore.. just shadows. What used to be. Memories. But that's all my scars are in the first place.. memories of mistakes, of failures, of pain. Memories of release and pennance. I have repayed my debts up to one month and 6 days ago. I have taken back what I have put into the world up to then. I hurt them, so I hurt me. Karma must be assisted sometimes. You must control your own life, your own fate. Karma is too random, too unsure. You must choose to pay back your bad deeds. It is a decision. A noble one at that. Few people are willing to accept full responsibility for their trespasses. I am one of them... or at least I used to be...
posted by: my fears at 4:16 PM

Friday, March 28, 2003

Flesh is petty. The need for youth and beautiful young skin is appalling. My body means nothing to me.. it is simply the shell of my mind. A worthless cover to be used as necessary. My body means nothing to me, my mind is everything. I will do anything to preserve my state of mind.. but here's the problem- What best preserves my state of mind hurts the reason for my mind so much. Blood makes things easier. Love makes easier things worth living. I want to have both. What if I cut myself and he found it? How much would I disgust him? How little would he trust me? I have to keep this in mind every second of every day.. have to remove the ability from myself to pick up that blade. I have to remember what I would lose if I cut myself.. and it's a lot more than blood.
posted by: my fears at 4:21 PM

Thursday, March 27, 2003

Cold metal feels almost ethereal against warm skin. It's strange how you can be so close and yet so far from comfort.. from happiness.. from freedom. And the lines of what is pain and what is comfort blur so often. I can't tell anymore which is a gift and which is hell.. which sets me free and which enslaves me. I want so baddly to want to be healthy, but I cannot. I don't know what healthy is. I don't know what normal is. I don't know what freedom is. I cannot fly with chains on my feet, but what holds the key to those locks?
posted by: my fears at 4:19 PM

Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Okay, don't expect much from this site. Just honesty and pain. More honesty than pain hopefully. This is the diary of my dysfunction. This is where I write down my needs and pains before they become a reality. There is a time and place for everything, and this is the place for pain.

I am a self-mutillator

That was both honesty and pain. Pain is good when it comes right down to it. It pays a pennance. I promised Zack that I wouldn't repent. That I wouldn't escape.. sometimes I really wish I hadn't... the feeling of warm blood on cool skin is so very satisfying... deep crimson on too-white tiles is somehow comforting. I love to be the way i am.. but I love him, so I sacrifice it.

I am anorexic/bulimic highbred

I don't like to eat.. but I like the way it feels to purge. I like the way it feels to cleanse my body of the awful things I put into it. I love the control i get. I love to be the way I am.. but I love him, so I sacrifice it.

I sat today, for hours, tracing fingers over shadows of scars. I miss my scars. I traced back and force where once cold steel had pressed and for brief moments been inside of me. Where all my anger and frustration was released in one cathartic slash. I miss that feeling. But I love him, so I sacrifice it.

He doesn't ask me to give it up... I promised him. I will keep that promise. My lack of strength is not an issue here. I'll be strong as long as he needs me to.
posted by: my fears at 5:50 PM

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