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Old 01-06-2009, 07:20 PM   #1
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Triggering (SI/Abuse) - I need HELP!!

I am so confused right now. I have had a problem with SI for many (10) years, I am considered a veteran. I have also had a problem with substance abuse, pills(percocet or anything I could get my hands on.) It all got so bad until about 4 years ago I was sent to an inpatient facility for 6 days, but my insurance wouldn't pay any of the bill so I was sent home. While growing up my father was a heavy drinker, and I swore because of the physical abuse I would NEVER be like him. I never fully quit my SI or the pills since my inpatient stay. I was diagnosed Bi-polar, borderline personality, and panic disorder, but never got the proper treatment because of my insurance. Here it is now 2009, in January I decided that I needed help, my pills and SI were no longer helping but to take the edge off for a short amount of time. Then I would feel like crap for what I had done and do it all over again. I was scared about what I might do. Inside my head everything just seems so loud, like people are screaming. I have these visuals of things and I cannot piece them together to figure out what they mean. So anyway, I started seeing a therapist in January and she has helped me a great deal, no more pills, and we got the SI down a lot, I haven't in 3 weeks. And we got me seeing a doctor to get me some meds. But things came crashing down last night. All day the sounds, noise, or whatever it is was so loud it was driving me crazy. I would cover my ears and it would get louder, I would close my eyes and all I saw were these images of **** I didn't understand. I couldn't take it, I went to someone I knew and asked them for some pills and they gave them up, reuctantly, but I got them. Then to make matters worse, I drank, yes the thing that I feared the most had happened, I had become my father and that was all I could think about. I just wanted to make the **** stop. I didn't know what to do when that happened, I was drunk and high all at the same time and didnt know how I was going to get home. I drove home anyway, and by the grace of God made it home no issues. I got home and the SI began. So here I am, feeling like the biggest pile of crap. I want to call my therapist but I am afraid of what will happpen, or what she'll say. I am ill, I have a headache, and all I want to do is sleep. I am so mad at myself for what I have done. So, even if I don't call my therapist today, do I tell her about it in 4 days when I see her. I was doing so well and now this, what a set back for both of us. I am worried that she will tell me that I am wasting her time and my money. Or that she will pawn me off on someone else, She cannot do her job if I don't do mine. I am so confused, now what. And then, I am scared that I will do all of this again, If I could just make everything in my head quiet. I think that I will be OK. I hope I will be OK. I just needed some outside insight, so if anyone can offer any advice. I just want to shout from the mountain tops, HELP!!!

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Hi, Sorry to hear you are having such a rough time. Two really important things to remember -1) By getting drunk you are NOT becoming like your father, as you are not an abuser, or even a heavy drinker. 2) having a screwed up 24hours does not mean all your progress is lost. Taking a long term view - i.e the last 6 months rather than the last few days - you have made some changes for the better.

It sounds as though you have been under intense mental pressure and gone into kind of a crisis state of deliberate self-destruction. Concentrate on what comes next and how to move on from this. First step is to calm down and try not to blame yourself.

Then you do need to talk to your therapist. She won't reject you for being honest. It's not worth paying for therapy and then hiding big things that are going on in your life. I guess she will want you to look at what set this crisis off and maybe find some different strategies for coping.
hope things pick up for you soon. xx

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