It's been a year. 365 days since my world melted to sludge around me. I remember the exact moment my soul left my body. I was sitting on an unforgiving wooden bench overlooking a plot of daffodils. I hated those ridiculous daffodils VENOMOUSLY. The cold wind whipped around me, slapping my hair into my face. I was shivering. Not from the cold, but from the anger, the hurt, the humiliation. The shock set in. I began to feel an unbearable agony in my chest, like a stake had been plunged through my heart and lungs and was being twisted and twisted and twisted.
I could no longer breathe. Tears streamed down my face and passers by became blurs.
I begged myself to wake up from this nightmare. Then i died. Nothing felt real....my life fell from beneath me and i slipped into purgatory. It was like a warped Alice In Wonderland.
Nobody could reach me, and i became a machine. I went through the motions. I had to keep moving. I kept walking. I would rise from disturbed sleep and run run run. If i stopped for a significant period of time i would question everything....what was wrong with me? was i not pretty enough, smart enough, funny enough, good enough? what did i do wrong? was it all a lie? I began to feel utterly worthless. I couldnt stand anybody looking at me. I have never felt so ugly, disgusting and insignificant in my life. I felt like i had no friends, like nobody cared whether or not i existed. I became frail and shrunken, and then came my descent into the swirling abyss of depression. It's swallowing, drowning, abusive, murderous....light doesnt exist. Joy doesnt exist. I felt absolutely empty and tormented.
I was determined to erase myself. Hidden away from the intimidating and daunting social scene, i could protect myself from seeing things i didnt want to see. I would save up pills and chase them with straight vodka. I had to get away from my head, from the gutpunchy feeling i had all day every day. My dreams were in grey and sepia, and the twisting, fiery pain in my chest never eased. Mornings were like a conscious autopsy.....the pain of realising this was my life was beyond agony. I sought relief in cutting, in drawing blood....it was a strange kind of comfort. I lost complete control of my life and had no sense of reality. I was a ghost, a zombie, literally a shell of my former self. Kate's body was there, but Kate wasn't there anymore.
...i was worth nothing and nobody was going to convince me otherwise.