scoff wrote:
It's just that, like a fucking child, I need to be entertained at all times. I can't just sit back and enjoy a movie, at least not without pausing it to go out for a smoke, make a cup of coffee, clean the whole house, go shopping, take a shower, talk with someone on the phone... fuck, the last time I tried to actively watch a movie, when I wasn't hungover, it took me two weeks to get through it.
I don't know where all my problems came from, because they weren't always around. I used to be able to, one way or another, finish my schoolwork without contemplating death, watch films, read books, stay in, stay calm, but now I'm like a baby on crack.
And people notice. They look at me, and they say 'either she's on drugs, or she should be'.
And so here I am, unable to figure out how the fuck I got this way or why. Maybe something actually did break in my brain that time back when I was 16. I think I had some sort of a derealization episode, because I woke up in the morning, I went to school, and it didn't feel real. It was like I was in a bubble of sorts, and I could see the world I was coming from, but I couldn't reach it, and I couldn't interact with it. Like Susanna Kaysen wrote, describing the feeling of actually going insane. Maybe I went insane that day.
I remember going into school, going to my locker, walking up the stairs. We had english class. I sat down, and people were talking, with each other and with me, but I couldn't answer until they had already gotten to the next subject, because my brain just wouldn't process anything. When people moved, I thought they were gonna punch me. After a while, I couldn't take it anymore, so I excused myself, said I was going to the bathroom, and then I left. I know I went into town, but I can't remember if I walked or if I took the bus. I know I was walking around for a while, listening to Lana Del Rey in my headphones. Then I can't remember anything else. I don't remember if the next thing I remember is watching tv with a cigarette in my hand, or if the next thing I remember is my stepdad knocking on the door to the apartment, yelling because no one's heard from me in days, and I tell him I'm just cleaning the kitchen and that I'm fine and that he needs to leave.
It's such a mess.
And since then, nothing has been the way it's supposed to be. My brain's gotten slow, you know? People say something, I say 'what?', they start repeating themselves, like the first couple words, and all of a sudden it hits me and I can answer. I can't focus on anything anymore.
Are things always gonna be like this?