Sitting on a cup cushion chair and listening to. Days later I understand that. I understand better that my schizophrenia will run parallel to depression at points and expecting some sort of bipolar snap to happen and coming back to them to poke them with a "what's wrong" is no way forward. That's not how it works. Not even close. Shadow mimicry.
I have wondered the best way of going about describing the it that governs me. Is this what you want? Locked. Tell me now! I am afraid that if I do I will be interned again. I feel small. I feel frightened. What is wrong with us? I want to be bipolar. I want to be depressed. I want to be something else without lying about what I am. Why can't it be that way? I feel like garbage saying that, knowing the tolls of those pains from meeting them. The pissing contest cesspool. The grass is always greener. Fukkoff. Listening to each word and understanding dawning, the same loathing and disappointment and anger that froths inside me frothed and boils inside them too (in different ways); similar hiding places and outdoor faces are incorporated to further life. The panic attacks are the same.
Whenever I talk about it, be the occasion among friends or sibs or to you, I immediately feel defective. A waste of your time. How is it you've navigated 32 years of life [28 of them with knowing enough junk to not get run over by a thing called a car out of pure ignorance (22 of them with knowing enough junk to not get run over by a thing called a car out of negligence)] and still fight with normality? Well, if I knew, I'd put an end to it.
What we are does not need vivisection to be confirmed. The most frustrating part is being forced to bridge gaps and justify my misgivings and "quirks."
Reality checks and tests. I don't understand. Negative! Negative! Negative! Through study, I know how people are supposed to feel when things happen. That's why I enjoy semaphore so much. It helps me feel like I am a person too, regardless of what actually is.
Undamaged or compromised, I envy the feeling and find their company saturated and wonderful. It is selfish. It is not selfish. Listening to a good friend helped me learn what actual depression is and what it costs each day. Listening to a good friend helped me learn the gender multiplier and its complications and callousness. Between light hearted turns of phrase and spikes of imagination, I grew to understand the true differences between us and I learned more than I ever thought I'd need to know about what that prison is like. I hope I expressed what the view from inside my bars looks like too.
I am so glad I have the chance to compose this. I'll try and encapsulate it in a more condensed form:
I try to only project positive. No I don't LOL. Can shoot that down in a heartbeat. I must laugh out loud. I cannot set the world on fire. I certainly, however, do not try to project only positive. The dives are there for the asking. I do not suffer in silence. My physical pain tolerance has not kept pace with my mental pain tolerance and that's okay. I enjoy listening. It helps me feel more safe and more sane.
I am running.
I am afraid.
The dissimilarities are glaring now. Punishing heft of ocean swell. A fair mistake to make? In speaking with her, traveling the star systems made wonderful sense. Collapsing interpersonal nonsense into two dimensions, we existed and could map one another in three. It's kind of weird, bare with me. Here we go:
For some time, several months, I'd convinced myself I was predominantly bipolar. Cycling on and off and on and off in stints. If I could just figure out the timing, I could use it to approach "normal". Ride with it. Go with it. Do not fight it. Above all, do not try to force the head spaces function and be aware of its gear before you interact with anyone. I charted up many conversations about mania and engaged in shared tales of its absence in attempts to better understand its dimensions and myself and the loved ones I was engaging with.
Along those veins it became clearer and clearer that I did not know what I thought I knew about them. What I thought I knew about her. What I thought I knew about him. Some beliefs stood pat, many were restructured. Some were reinforced. I am susceptible to a high and low line, but the thread that flows through all points on the chart is my schizophrenia. The simplest and most base way to gauge who I am underneath the layer of my consciousness and awareness is that. My "it." For her, it is depression. The hard coded piece of yourself that can not be changed. That I enjoyed the most about speaking with her is laughing about everyday bullshit. Seeing the ledge and taking casual portraits for one-another at the edge of the world. I've known highs and I've known lows, but I've never had to know the tar ocean depression. I've been and am manic, I've been and am depressed, truth be tolled, I am just schizophrenic. The fabulous shock of the reminder that you are just as much and deserving to be part of the human race as the "normals" is a spark.
I am glad that our worlds have collided. I will attempt to boil this down later. I don't have to do this alone.
We are.
We still don't know what our conversion rate is. We still have no explanation for why we burn so violently and brilliantly and sleeplessly and the only consolation is watching the sun cross the horizon line and light up the atmosphere like a pool of gasoline and scream and sing and howl to it from the highest ground we can find, should we be caught outdoors. I don't know why.
We are.
I want to heal. I want to burn. I am understanding depression with greater accuracy than I ever have before. I am understanding a new kind of helplessness that I've never sensed before in its entirety. Seeing more of its true scope is deafening and tuning at once.
///there is no replacement for spending time and sharing experience. The world will never be ready for the damaged. Us damaged don't have to fight world war prime alone, though. You do not have to either. You don't have to either. Don't understand; do listen.
///El-P & Killer Mike - "Legend Has It"
I have wondered the best way of going about describing the it that governs me. Is this what you want? Locked. Tell me now! I am afraid that if I do I will be interned again. I feel small. I feel frightened. What is wrong with us? I want to be bipolar. I want to be depressed. I want to be something else without lying about what I am. Why can't it be that way? I feel like garbage saying that, knowing the tolls of those pains from meeting them. The pissing contest cesspool. The grass is always greener. Fukkoff. Listening to each word and understanding dawning, the same loathing and disappointment and anger that froths inside me frothed and boils inside them too (in different ways); similar hiding places and outdoor faces are incorporated to further life. The panic attacks are the same.
Whenever I talk about it, be the occasion among friends or sibs or to you, I immediately feel defective. A waste of your time. How is it you've navigated 32 years of life [28 of them with knowing enough junk to not get run over by a thing called a car out of pure ignorance (22 of them with knowing enough junk to not get run over by a thing called a car out of negligence)] and still fight with normality? Well, if I knew, I'd put an end to it.
What we are does not need vivisection to be confirmed. The most frustrating part is being forced to bridge gaps and justify my misgivings and "quirks."
Reality checks and tests. I don't understand. Negative! Negative! Negative! Through study, I know how people are supposed to feel when things happen. That's why I enjoy semaphore so much. It helps me feel like I am a person too, regardless of what actually is.
Undamaged or compromised, I envy the feeling and find their company saturated and wonderful. It is selfish. It is not selfish. Listening to a good friend helped me learn what actual depression is and what it costs each day. Listening to a good friend helped me learn the gender multiplier and its complications and callousness. Between light hearted turns of phrase and spikes of imagination, I grew to understand the true differences between us and I learned more than I ever thought I'd need to know about what that prison is like. I hope I expressed what the view from inside my bars looks like too.
I am so glad I have the chance to compose this. I'll try and encapsulate it in a more condensed form:
I try to only project positive. No I don't LOL. Can shoot that down in a heartbeat. I must laugh out loud. I cannot set the world on fire. I certainly, however, do not try to project only positive. The dives are there for the asking. I do not suffer in silence. My physical pain tolerance has not kept pace with my mental pain tolerance and that's okay. I enjoy listening. It helps me feel more safe and more sane.
I am running.
I am afraid.
The dissimilarities are glaring now. Punishing heft of ocean swell. A fair mistake to make? In speaking with her, traveling the star systems made wonderful sense. Collapsing interpersonal nonsense into two dimensions, we existed and could map one another in three. It's kind of weird, bare with me. Here we go:
For some time, several months, I'd convinced myself I was predominantly bipolar. Cycling on and off and on and off in stints. If I could just figure out the timing, I could use it to approach "normal". Ride with it. Go with it. Do not fight it. Above all, do not try to force the head spaces function and be aware of its gear before you interact with anyone. I charted up many conversations about mania and engaged in shared tales of its absence in attempts to better understand its dimensions and myself and the loved ones I was engaging with.
Along those veins it became clearer and clearer that I did not know what I thought I knew about them. What I thought I knew about her. What I thought I knew about him. Some beliefs stood pat, many were restructured. Some were reinforced. I am susceptible to a high and low line, but the thread that flows through all points on the chart is my schizophrenia. The simplest and most base way to gauge who I am underneath the layer of my consciousness and awareness is that. My "it." For her, it is depression. The hard coded piece of yourself that can not be changed. That I enjoyed the most about speaking with her is laughing about everyday bullshit. Seeing the ledge and taking casual portraits for one-another at the edge of the world. I've known highs and I've known lows, but I've never had to know the tar ocean depression. I've been and am manic, I've been and am depressed, truth be tolled, I am just schizophrenic. The fabulous shock of the reminder that you are just as much and deserving to be part of the human race as the "normals" is a spark.
I am glad that our worlds have collided. I will attempt to boil this down later. I don't have to do this alone.
We are.
We still don't know what our conversion rate is. We still have no explanation for why we burn so violently and brilliantly and sleeplessly and the only consolation is watching the sun cross the horizon line and light up the atmosphere like a pool of gasoline and scream and sing and howl to it from the highest ground we can find, should we be caught outdoors. I don't know why.
We are.
I want to heal. I want to burn. I am understanding depression with greater accuracy than I ever have before. I am understanding a new kind of helplessness that I've never sensed before in its entirety. Seeing more of its true scope is deafening and tuning at once.
///there is no replacement for spending time and sharing experience. The world will never be ready for the damaged. Us damaged don't have to fight world war prime alone, though. You do not have to either. You don't have to either. Don't understand; do listen.
///El-P & Killer Mike - "Legend Has It"
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