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Struggling

I don't understand it.

Why I was supposed to take the charcoal.

I don't see it as a negative, that I threw it away. I see it as a positive.

The problem is I cannot say I am glad I survived. I can say that my regret of the entire event is that I TOLD someone I had taken the pills. I feel anger actually at the part of me that wanted to live.

The obvious answer...I should have taken it because it was good for my body is not an answer to me. The hatred I feel towards my body makes this seem irrelevant.

Last night I had a dream I was trying to get out of this complex (love the language of dreams), and I could see the exit but it was above me, I could not get there. And I was eating this meal, and someone kept paying for it for me, with 6 dollar bills. Then there was something about pretending to be catholic, and wearing all white and worrying that because I was in all white, people would notice that I was trapped. This was dangerous.

I wish I could talk to my therapist, right now, I wish I was with my old therapist who I could jus email her any time I wanted to. I need her. I need something. I have my therapists cell phone, but I dont think I can call her. I dont feel comfortable.

I dont know what to do

I just want an answer to my question....why should I have drank the charcoal? An answer that actually makes sense.
 

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I don't think anyone can answer that question for you but yourself-- I think talking it through with your therapist will help, a lot, but I think the question of why you "should have" drank the charcoal is a question about why you "should" live, or be glad to be alive... heavy question and no one else can really tell you what makes your life worth living, or even IF it's worth living.

I for one am glad you're around, charcoal or no charcoal, but that's not much of an answer really.
I've read your entry several times, and have been thinking about it. What strikes me is that you say the obvious answer is because it was good for your body. I would have said, because it would have been good for YOU (as a whole), for your life. It was meant to protect you from the effects of the overdose. I know this probably isn't the answer you are looking for.. can you write out the things you want/need to say and ask, have a conversation on paper with your therapist?
MaybeJ, Untangling, thank you for your words. I know these are questions no one can answer for me, and questions that have been haunting me for such a long time. My therapist asked me once, what has kept me alive, what has kept me going, and I honestly do not know the answer to this. But thank you for the words and support, they mean so much to me.
Best of luck in finding your answers... I hope you are able to find answers to all of these had questions. I do believe your life has a purpose, and I hope you are able to find it and believe this also.
i'm listening...and i relate.
Thanks MaybeJ. When I am out of the complex I believe it. When I am in the complex I just don't. It is a strange place to be, and the two parts don't speak to each other very well.

Thank you Pink. It seems we are both doing some similar work. We can support one another in both of or rights to existence.
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