Saturday, April 18, 2009

Blah-ness

So, lately, Jennifer, Julie, and JJ have all just sort of stopped bickering all the time. I don't know why: maybe it was rolling with Jon, or the sessions with Rachel, but I'm not really sure. Either way: voices in my head have been substantially less.

However, I have been getting a lot more mood swings: from like really energized and hyped to just tired and desolate. Apparently it is "annoying" Jon, which is sorta pissing me off. I don't know: I guess I sort of expect a better response from him than that.

But that's not the only thing that is getting to me. I don't know, I guess I sorta think that after he leaves, we are going to be pulled apart somehow, and so in preemptive strategy, I am trying to push him away by my choice than having him torn from my grasp. But that is just hurting both of us, because I don't like having him an arm's length away. I have gotten so used to having him there for me, it's not that I didn't appreciate it, but maybe I didn't do so for its full value.

And another thing. I don't really know how to put it, but for some reason I'm just getting really discouraged about this relationship. I think it has something to do with the movie that I wrote last night. I was really fucking stoned and I ended up coming up with this movie entitled "The Love Life of a Teenage Borderline." It was supposed to be an autobiographical novel, but the movie is turning out so much better. But basically I took the events of my life, twisted them a bit, and reordered some of them, in order to prove my point about borderlines: not that I know what the fuck that is yet. It is a loose interpretation of my life, and how it got me to where I am now. Actually, the movie went up all the way to 2014, but whatever.

In any case, I've been reliving a lot of the past betrayals guys have pulled. And it's really just pissing me off. And some of that resentment ends up getting placed on Jon, and really none of it is his fault, he's just an innocent bystander. But I guess I feel the need to put the blame on someone, and none of those other guys are here now, so it has to go to the next-closest thing. Which is bullshit. *Sigh* I hate how my fucking mind works. Can I kill it please? Like, really, please.

But the past couple of days, our relationship has felt bipolar: we're either fucking awesome, or else I just can't be around him, can't talk to him, am resenting him for shit that's not his fault. And it's really getting to me. It's not like I enjoy this. But I don't know what else to do.

And I keep finding myself wondering how I got here. What happened? Where did I stray from the beaten path?

I don't know what to do. I really fucking don't. I pretend to have all the answers, all the solutions, just to convince myself that there is a way to overcome ALL of this. But you know what? I don't know squat, and I'm just winging it.

I think it is the movie's fault though. Because I was going through all of my relationships, abusive and nice, naughty and neat, everything. And I just keep living that abuse over and over and over and over in my head, and it won't fucking go away, no matter what I do.

It hurts, and it's like the one person that could probably help me the most, I am pushing away, because what can help, can hurt. And letting Jon inside is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I don't know that I could let him go without the walls shattering. The foundation might still be there (the whole thing about it wasn't Jon making me feel I had worth, but he SHOWED me that I had worth instead, so that even if he wasn't there, I could still do it for myself), but other than the foundation, I think it would all crumble to dust.

Sometimes I hate that I love him this much. It just makes it that much harder.

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Broken Shards of the Mirror

The common professional psychological opinion on mental disorders, and how they manifest, is that genetics puts a switch in your mind, and circumstances in your life determine whether that switch is turned on or not. I agreed until yesterday afternoon. I am more of the mind that it is a dial, like a rotary dial light dimmer, and that circumstances dictate how far up the dial gets turned. In eighth and ninth grade especially, my borderline dial got turned up all the way, and faded from there. Along with it was the dial for eating disorders (it flipped between anorexia when I could will myself to not eat, and bulimia when that failed). However, I think that I also have the dial for dissociative identity disorder. I've mentioned Jennifer and Julie before. But I will recap, and actually try to start from the beginning. I apologize if this doesn't make much sense, but I'm not writing it for anybody (much) except myself. So... deal with it.

I was born Geraldine Gutierrez- one whole, complete person. Or, at least, I assume I was fine. But I was constantly put in the care of different people within the first seven months of my life. It started out with the hospital, then the orphanage, then the foster family, then their nurse, then my adoptive (current) parents. All I can surmise is that it was too much for her- the core- to deal with. So she went to sleep, and has (for the most part) been unconscious, dead to the world, and unaware of any of the things that have happened to this psyche since, at the latest, December of 1990. She is unformed, uninformed, naive, and innocent. She stopped feeling, stopped thinking, stopped everything but existing. She is in a back room somewhere, locked away, and nothing reaches her there.

But even as Geraldine went to sleep, the mirror-image was formed. We'll call her Rose. Though it fits, this isn't exactly her name, but I don't know it, and she doesn't exist anymore to tell it to me, so we will stick with Rose. To be clear: this is not the mirror-image (me), that exists now, but an earlier version. She was made to function normally in society. Made to function, and to protect, because Geraldine couldn't deal with it, and so Rose was the wall that blocked anything from getting to Geraldine. But she was still a persona that felt, and thought, and existed in her own right. And from here on out, I will refer to all the personas as a whole, or this body, as the collective psyche, or cp, for short.

So then cp as adopted. Things went fine up until first grade. Then the stress from my parents started. The grades, dance, piano, etc, all started to take place, and another split occurred. Rose ceased to exist, but the majority of her remnants continued in me: the protective side, the side that was made to function in society. I have no name, or at least, none that I have found. But it is me (for the most part: we'll get to that later), and so I will refer to myself as such. There were two other personas that formed from Rose- one was Jennifer Julie, the other was JJ.

JJ was formed from the logical, analytical side. She was completely emotionally detached, and felt nothing: life is a math equation to her. However, the minute that JJ came into existence, she went into "the movie theatre." There she watched and observed, and analyzed. Occasionally she would see a stupid decision about to be made, like, a direly stupid one, and would send a pulse out that would contain her intentions, and thus, could conceal her existence, and still get her point through.

Jennifer Julie is slightly harder to explain. Jennifer Julie was one personality, with two trains of thought (for a while). But one train never really got started. That train of thought was the one that was optimistic- so much so that it was unrealistic. And since that train of thought never got started, it was never able to grow, or gain strength, or develop. The other train of thought not only started, but it took off, and gained all those things: growth, strength, development. Add to that external influences (parents, dance teachers, teachers), and it was just putting more fuel on the fire. So that train of thought progressed much further than the other one.

I hit eighth grade, and the shit hit the fan. I don't know what it was, but Jennifer Julie separated: there was Jennifer, and there was Julie. If you are familiar with any of my previous blogs mentioning this, you'll know which train of thought became which persona. But for those of you who may not, Julie was the weak optimistic one, and Jennifer was the strong pessimistic one.

Julie (in my head) wears straight white: a long flowing skirt, a peasant blouse, has curly hair down to about her shoulders, which is halfway pulled up, natural makeup, and this look of helplessness. She is always crying, and tries to tell herself that she is good enough, that everything will work out fine. Her eyes look hopeless though. And after the split, she started deteriorating, because she couldn't even feed off of pre-Jennifer's strength. So she is pathetic, and helpless, has no willpower, and is constantly cowering in the corner.

Jennifer, on the other hand, is dressed in black and magenta tripp pants, a lace corset, and a sheer unbuttoned dress shirt. Her hair is straight and reaches down to the middle of her upper-arm. Her make-up is harsh: black eyeshadow and eye-liner, and deep crimson lips. She is very strong, and knows so. She yells at Julie constantly, degrading her, and pulling more low blows than you could ever imagine. She thinks Julie is completely worthless, and always tells her, "If you were just more [so-and-so], you might actually be worth something." But Jennifer isn't realistic either. However, she continued to gain strength while Julie's was diminishing, and so the conflict continued, more hopelessly than before. She towers of Julie, screaming at her almost non-stop, but there are times she just gives up. "You're not worth my time. You will never be anything." And she walks off to go do her own thing, whatever the hell that is.

At this point, my role changed. Let me simply recap, so that I can make sure I hit everything correctly. I was the shell that functioned in the outside world. I was the wall that blocked anything and everything from getting to Geraldine. I was the sorter that decided what information went to whom, and also decided who should handle what situations. I was also the buffer, both for information going in, and what came out. I simplified any outside data, and sent it to the correct person, who I would then censor (as was appropriate) as they took hold of the controls. I am nothing more than a robot: either Jennifer, or Julie, or JJ takes the controls, and I am merely their puppet: conveying what they want to the outside world. I have no emotions or thoughts of my own other than what they give me. Even as I write this, it is JJ that is dictating what is to be said. But I mainly realized that I don't think or feel when Ari asked what I do when things get to be "too much." And I realized that I shut my internal ears, and just block all of them out. And then there is just a blank white expanse in my mind, and just... nothingness. Nothing exists for me. And I realized something. They all have issues, but they are fine. I think I am the one that has the borderline personality disorder, simply because I don't feel anything. It was me that wanted to get into a ton of relationships, have sex, do drugs, drive fast, etc, in order to feel something, because I don't ever feel anything. I did all those things in an attempt to feel alive, but it was never good enough. And now I see why. I know why I feel so empty so often, or dead, or why I have to feel through my experiences. Because that is all I have. And it scares me.

Now that you know about my different personas, I need to recap on what happened Monday night. Ari, Tony, and I performed the Imbolc Ritual, and did an exercise to open our third eye. Don't jump to conclusions: it is one of your chakras, and it helps heighten your awareness of everything. But while I was doing the meditation to reach that point, I almost had it, but then it was like everybody else was pulling back. So somehow, I persuaded them, if only by my curiosity to experience something, to sort of, meld their consciousnesses, though still staying separate. And it was so strange, because for a moment, it felt like Geraldine woke up. And during that split second, I saw how I was supposed to be, or possibly could be one day. I was one whole complete person, and I was beautiful. I'm not just talking physically, but just about... everything. All was how it should be. But it still sucked, because it was like she was looking in the mirror, and I was simply the reflection. But I could see her, and she was so happy, and I wanted to be a part of that. So I sent a sort of mental plea, beggin her to make me a part of it, which she did. But I was still separate: it was like I was a parasite, feeding off of her, attached to her, but still separate from her. And that killed me on the inside.

I realize now that my only purpose is to be the mask. Once everyone else comes together, there will be no need of me, and I will simply cease to be. I guess you could compare a personality to a mirror. Now, in this example, mirrors exist perfectly without frames: in order to let things in and out. A normal person has no frame, but is still whole. You could call someone that has dissociative identity disorder a broken mirror, whose shards have fallen on the ground, and are distinct and separate. But I'm a different story. My shards would have fallen separately, but cp quickly formed a frame the minute it started to crack, so they are still held together, and are part of the whole cp. I am the frame, so though I am a part of the whole, I am still separate from the original mirror, and once the pieces are whole again, I will serve no purpose: all I will be doing is inhibiting them from letting emotions in or out. So I have no idea what I want.

Let me clarify something now: I have emotions, but I don't experience them. It's a lot like Ari's situation. I guess it's the same idea as when you feel something in your head, but not your heart. The chemical reaction might be there, but it doesn't reach you on that deeper level. So though I have feelings, I don't feel them. That doesn't mean that I don't make bonds with people, whether they are friendships, relationships, or anything else. But emotions come and go with me, and they are extremely superficial. The one thing that remains throughout it all is an emptiness underneath. It's like a hole that you can't fill, but you can cover it up. But just because the hole is covered, doesn't mean it still doesn't exist. That it isn't still empty. And I am so tired of emptiness... but...

Was Socrates right? Is death a gain? Because I will not be able to continue in the new whole (if I am right), and if I don't continue, I must cease to exist: face annihilation. Would I rather be nonexistant than existant and aware of my numbness? I think I might, but I have hope (even though I don't feel hope), that maybe at some point I will experience something. That I will feel alive.

But I guess we shall see, right? Life goes on, or it doesn't, and that's the end of that.

Sunday, January 04, 2009

17.2-1.2=problems

Last night I weighed 117.2 pounds. Jesal had a scale in her bathroom, and I couldn't stop myself.

This morning it was 116. Stupid, I know, to check it twice within 12 hours, but whatever. I wanted to know.

And that immediately made me think "Only 1 more pound to 115, then 5 to 110, then ten to 100..."

And that made me think "Only one more pound to STUPID"... so yeah....

Weight scares the shit out of me, but not just the weight itself anymore, just the numbers. I know I've talked about this before, but it's still a prominent issue in my life.

I dunno, I guess the number 89 still has a nice sound to it, but I know that ME at 89 is fucking scary. I do like to occasionally think about being 110 again (reality, not just the number), cuz I don't think that 5-8 pounds off (depending on what kind of day it is), won't hurt me that much.

But then I think, and I know that if I did hit 110, there would be a day where it was 109. And that day, I would think, "If I could get down to 109, I can definitely get down to 105." And thus would start my demise.

Don't ask me why weight is such an important factor in my life. I don't care how others perceive me. It's all how I perceive myself. Which is evidenced in the fact that everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, around me is telling me that I look fine, but I still don't believe it. It's so fucking retarded, but that's how things go.

Jon thinks I could stand to gain another couple of pounds. But I know that if I hit 120 before I am pregnant (stupid I know), or at least before I am twenty years old, I will spaz, and constrict my eating until I am down to 110. My reasoning for that was that I would have to get down to my previous weight, and then lose some more as penance for letting myself get that "out of control."

My bmi right now is 20.5 (i think). Healthy is between 18.5 and 24.5 I'm at the top of the lower third of that scale. 101 would put me at 17.9. Stupid. 110 would put me at 19.4. Ok. I really am liking the sound of 110.

But again, do i need this? No. It would be nice, but weight isn't so important to me right now that I actually do something to alter it. So, fluctuating between 115 and 119 it is.

J-fucking-oy.

Friday, December 12, 2008

SoC Numero Cinco

I shouldn't have had sex with Jon. I don't know what I was thinking. Well, I do, but I should have stopped. It's just that again, I've been so numb lately.

Great: I'm acting like a typical borderline. I guess at least I'm being slightly more responsible: it's just one person rather than a lot. But that doesn't make it any less stupid. You would think that the slip-up last night would have made me think straighter, but noooo... Of course not. Idiot.

I just feel so empty. Several minutes before I got on here, I wanted to cut, and if I had been in my room I would have. But I'm posting this in Jon's. And though I know he has knives and probably something else I could use if I wanted to get creative, I don't want to freak him out by my chaotic search, or risk him waking up (if I could somehow keep myself under control) to find me cutting myself in his room with his stuff. That's too much.

Shit just really sucks right now. I don't know. I sorta want to escape, and I don't necessarily mean move to Colorado or anything, but drugs, alcohol, driving fast, something to get hormones, adrenaline, going in my body. I'm so numb now to everything, so freaking detached, and I need some kind of high in order to get the slightest bit of feelings.

But whatever. I'm done posting for now. This was actually a serious Stream of Consciousness. Sorta sux, but what happens, happens, right?

Popcorn.

Adios.

Monday, December 01, 2008

In Jennifer's Words

Worthless piece of shit. Why do you think you even stand a chance of winning Jonathan's affection? You're a fat, ugly, stupid, good-at-nothing waste of air. He will come to hate and loathe you just like everybody else does: like you do. He will leave you like David, betray you like Michael. He will break promises, force tears, and draw out your vulnerable side, just to crush it and forget it in the dust.

Stop deluding yourself you stupid bitch. Why would he ever want you?