Threats

    I just hope the hospital and I don't engage in more threats. I understand there's limited resources and they have difficult working conditions. I know I made a mistake with Elle. I don't want it to be all about me. I just want to focus on feeling better so I can be more productive. I think they can help with the allergies, the sleep, and the fatigue.

    It looks like I'll be doing the intensive outpatient program at MIP. They feel like seeing my doctor more often would help. Maybe I'll be able to address my concerns more directly.

Dear dr Small

 Dear Small,

Spidey tried. Missed di boat. At least i don't have to pretend. Hopefully i won't see you ennytime soon.

Spidey

Dear Elle

Dear Elle,

    I remember the old days, when I used to keep the anger more hidden. At least it seemed that way. I've been in the system too long. I miss the way we used to talk. It seemed less serious. But maybe the time for humor has passed? Maybe it's time to be serious. I do feel like I am learning more. I don't see this as failure. I see it as the necessary next step. I hope wherever you are, whatever you are doing, you understand. You and Leaves both. I want you to be happy. 

    I miss you. Hopefully I've learned everything I needed to know from you. I need to focus. I feel like I've wasted too much time. I need to focus on being more productive and less angry. I just wanted to make you proud. I wanted you to want to say, yeah, I knew Ashes. He was a great guy. I'm sorry. I hope you're not upset. I have tried. Don't give up on me. 

Yours,

Ashes

Dear coffee

Dear coffee,

    Stocks are down,

    Arachnids are brown,

    I miss seeing Krystal,

    Have you seen her around?

Spidey

Revisiting Trust

     I've struggled with trust. There was a breakdown of trust. But going back to the idea of love as expressed in Christian terms, it is possible to love, it is even possible to love a stranger. There was not much love lost between myself and the other patients at the hospital. They immediately latched onto DID as a sign of arrogance and pushed the drug addict narrative. They never gave me a real chance. Never saw me for who I was. They got stuck on the misconceptions and trying to analyze the DID thing. But it's hard to blame them because I overthought DID and found it confusing myself. 

    But I've been getting my anger back down and reaching out some more. I had a blip with the ritalin and it's not a smooth and steady process. I felt like I wasn't being given choices. When you're the youngest, you get a lot of unsolicited advice and the choices are often made for you. 

    I was stuck in patterns and I knew myself, I knew that if I went back to gateway or got overly involved with medical, I would slip back into patterns. I needed to de-Bipolarize my mind. That did not make me popular, but in truth I was miserable when it was bipolar and the concept I had of bipolar was dysfunctional. It was keeping me trapped in a false identity, stuck in patterns. 

    I think it's time for forgiveness. I just wish I could talk to the staff. Help them understand. The thing with Prichards really wasn't my fault. THC isn't the problem. My counselor isn't the problem. It's the communication. Or lack thereof. But I think that's changing for me. I do know what I need as far as the medication and the ENT/Allergies. I think they are ready to listen. 

Good Morning, Greenville Healthcare

    Dis is your faborite arachnid, Spidey! A warm shout out to the angels ob di Nort wing ob di Castle! Serbin di fiercest since 1969!

    On to di wedder! Today's high is 92, and its going to be sunny. Grab your sunscreen, vampiric bats, gonna be anudder scorcher!

    In udder noose, the Supreme Court just limited the FDA authority over tobacco. Looks like that nicotine gum may be less useful. It's been hailed as a win for vape venders.

    There has been a recall on Rachael's Ginger Beer. It has been containimated with bad cucumbers. The recall was issued June 18th. 

    The FDA allowed a manufacturer in India to continue shipping prescription medications to the US despite quality violations in the manufacturing process, including mold, foul water, faulty testing, and dirty conditions affecting 150 medications stocked in American pharmacies. The violations were discovered in 2022, but were not revealed or corrected, because it would have caused "some kind of frenzy". 

Volly

 

Volly, look, they're finally doing it! A perfect formation!

Combinations

    I'm finally breaking my combinations. Cleaned out my professionals, isolated myself from social influences, de-numbified and de-drugged, took control of my healthcare, took control of my life, de-perfectionated... re-educated myself and took some guilt and anger off my plate. It was definitely a mistake to go gonzo with hospital insurance as a minor and drug it up. I needed to deal with my problems, controlling and toxic personalities that were in my life. People that wouldn't take no for an answer and were never satisfied. Been kicked around too long. 

    Some people were desperate for me to have bipolar. Because it avoids all responsibility. It puts the blame on the genetics and the drugs. Not on the relationships and the miseducation where it belongs. DID truly is a social problem. It's all about façades and lies and bad combinations. It's about a lack of communication. And it leads to things like not being able to maintain employment, unstable relationships, dysregulation, and risky behavior. And Hospitals have trouble unwinding that kind of stuff because you've got to treat the whole problem, not just part of it. And sometimes the world does not want to change, no matter how much an individual wants to change. 

    So, I've been making it excruciatingly obvious to the people around me what's not ok. Little by little. And I've cut them out and I'm waiting to see if they change. So that I can consider whether to let them back in. Again, 2 comas. It's been enough. 

    The quiet life can be quite nice. Less keeping up with the joneses and a slower pace. If I can keep improving that credit score and find some healthier people to have in my life, then I'll be ok. 

Clozanno 3

This is year 3 without clozaril. I don't regret it. I feel more connected to myself. More genuine. This is who I really am deep down. This is me. I just don't have the energy.

Desire

Pools of blue and straw haired blonde

Lighting up my soul and beyond

Stars so bright shine in her eyes

And yet my heart her words deny

Drawing me inexorably towards

A kiss, a caress the highest reward

And when our eyes come forth to meet

Sparks will fly and hearts will beat

Truth it only runs from lies

At the sight my soul, it sighs

With the grace of an angel's flight

She returns my gaze with infinite sight.

Safe

The thing is, they did keep me safe. And I know they've put the blood, sweat and tears in. I just wanted it to be nicer. So I try again.  I pursue the jobs. I do the writing and drawing. The world seems so very different. I'm trying to make sure I go in the right direction.  So I can show them. 

 

    Spidey go easy on di health care werkers. Ebbyday. Gonna get webby. Make a whole new batch ob cobwebs while Jess looks for werk and Ashes files taxes. Make a pretty one for Krystal. Got some canvas arribing today. 

    I'm really pushing on this. I've been to a lot of hospitals. MIP has the poem, Springbrook never got theirs but it's on the poems page. What should I draw for krystal? I'm going impressionist, I think. Yes. I'm going to try to paint an impression of her. Remember, I'm new at this painting

Spidey a liddle slow on di uptake. Gonna do sumting real special. Spidey learn. Molly determined. Spidey give back.

Delusional

    I do like being delusional sometimes. It helps me to forgive. If I don't like something, well maybe it didn't really happen. Maybe xyz wasn't said or done. Even if im certain it was, maybe I can be delusional about it. Thats what I like about being delusional.  Sometimes its better when things didn't really happen.

Safety

Everyone deserves to feel safe in their home and at thier job. I don't wish harm to anyone in Greenville County. I've had some concerns about diagnoses and medications. But health care workers need to be safe and well treated. They need breaks and vacations. It helps them to remember why they do what they do. To remember who they are. To keep them fresh so they can take good care of the people. 

Justice Revisited

     Now it makes more sense. See, it doesn't matter what happened on Woodruff Road or under Church Street, because they didn't understand Autism or trauma as well back then and one is retired and the other has already been spoken to. 

    And looking back, I know I needed to understand first Prichards and Leaves, then I went to Springbrook to understand the drugs and the labels a little better, and then I had to go back to MIP to understand what role Arson and MIP played in all this. And it really was a misunderstanding of Autism and trauma that became known as Bipolar for me. Again, I think Clarity is right, that the CAPD and ADHD are mild. So then that means that I can focus on now, I think. The work, the writing, the finding someone. Though I feel like health care professionals understand this stuff better and I'd like to find someone who understands it. 

    Definitely black box warning on ritalin. 

Flappy

 

Thinking of Krystal makes me flappy.

Krystal

     Krystal works at MIP as a mental health Technician. Her real name starts with a K or a C, I can't remember. She has those blue eyes and the blonde hair. She's quiet, contemplative around me. She strikes me as intelligent and kind. I wish I could know her. But maybe that's why I shouldn't go back. I need to focus. She was so beautiful. I didn't ask her much. Maybe this doesn't help my reputation but I'm human.

The Process of Frustration

    I need to put this in a book. I keep getting distracted. Frustration can come fast and hard in the form of betrayal, or slow and steady in the form of burnout. 

    Betrayal can look like someone you trusted misdiagnosing you and trying to sabotage your counselor. It also look like someone you were in charge of the care of doing something like reporting you to an agency or threatening people or misusing information that they were trusted with. 

    Burnout is more of that slow and steady, day after day, why do I have to deal with these people still after all this time, the same problems, the same old BS. Pushing too hard, doing too much, getting in trouble and getting overwhelmed. 

    Maybe the hospital was right to stop the ritalin. Black Box. 

Good News

     I got some good news today. The tax service I applied to wants to interview me. I need to balance. I reopened my accounting website, applied to jobs, and I'm trying to work on my writing and this advocacy so that's a lot. I need to focus on managing my medication correctly, counseling, and these work things plus mailing in my taxes and my insurance renewal. 

    I need to go easy on the healthcare workers. I was angry about the Bipolar BS and my former Psychiatrist. But it's time to put that away for good. I have AS, mild ADHD/CAPD, and cPTSD/DID. I need to stop visiting Psych Hospitals. I need to focus. I can't afford to fool around. We can get past a misdiagnosis if we don't repeat past mistakes.

One of You

    I like Dr. Small. She works with Arson. If I have to go back, put me with Small. She listens. I did work at crisisline. I was one of you. It's hard to care. I've been so focused on understanding all this history and labels and meds. There's still hope. let me be what I can be.

Ritalin (Adult warning)

    Ritalin is one of the many stimulants I've been prescribed. It can increase focus tremendously. Side effects include loss of appetite (and loss of weight), nausea, anger, and apparently suicidal fantasies. It was after having some frustration with brain fog/dissociation that i took one, flew into a flight of anger and started picturing buying a gun, going to MIP, and putting a bullet in my head in front of north wing. Blackbox warning.

Prismally Speaking

     I feel I have to keep this blog going. I feel like I've been wearing on my families and on my counselor by not giving everyone the same story at the same time. And I want everyone to feel safe and to not push too hard. I need to stay focused. We didn't know as much about Autism or DID in the 90s. Nevermind the ADHD or the CAPD. Those are minor. I need to focus on managing the biggest problems. I need to focus on not scaring people or being inconsistent, though that may be a challenge. 

    I hope there is still hope for me to find someone. That's why I need to focus on this. That's why I need to be transparent and deliberate. Because otherwise we're looking at prison or lawsuits or abrupt endings. Or a combination. 

    Anyways. I need to stay focused. I love to listen to the birds in the mornings. I need to work on myself some more. I need to not be impulsive or spend or use excessive medication. I need to avoid blaming or avoiding responsibility. This is not fun and games and I need to remind myself of that from time to time. If I'm ever going to be with someone. I need to be realistic. Molly and Coffee are working on getting in touch. I'm counting on my friends. My healthcare friends. So that I can find someone and have that happy ending. 

    I know Arson. I know why he's angry. He sees me as throwing this away. And he's right. I can't do that. So, I need to focus. I need to not waste resources. I need to be serious. And I'll need to keep reminding myself. I have responsibilities. This is really taking most of my focus, but accounting is the day job. I've been working on applying for other jobs and getting my house a little more in order. But I've been a little discouraged. It's been harder to focus on the fiction writing with so much reality coming up. 

    I need to be careful what I say. When the anger comes into focus, I can scare people. 

Games

     I can't play games with this. I have DID. Not Bipolar. It's as serious as cancer. Hopefully not as deadly. I need to be very careful not to push too hard, be dishonest, or misuse prescription medication. I need to remember there are no magical solutions. This is a long term thing. 

    I get pains in my liver area and on the left side of my chest. I don't report every single symptom I have because there's not much the internist can do with so many symptoms that make so little sense. And I'm afraid of doctors. I failed to show up for the internist and for the stomach doctor. Because I know the medical staff is uneasy around me. And perhaps they have reason to. 

    I need to be honest. Or this could end badly. And I don't want it to all be about me. There are other people that need help. And the kids need a turn. But I reopened accountec and I'm going to try to go out more. I need to use my earplugs, so that I don't hear too much. Mostly the sensations are in my head. But my stomach, heart, and liver are the next biggest areas, then the bladder. Feet have improved a lot. the right foot still is slightly less functional then the left. I just need to not get overconfident. I can't afford to wear people out. 

    Today we're playing pickleball. It will be a nice day. I like people. I need to go easy on them.