i’m doing really good.
i was going to go to a dual diagnosis treatment facility; and it’s funny, cause the persyn that calls me their best friend, my best friend i guess, was going to get into rehab too, but they didn’t get in and i jump-kicked through hoop after hoop to get into this dual diagnosis clinic treatment place – one that could help me get off of fake dopamine and also treat me according to my scitzo-affective diagnosis, but after i did everything that was required they told me i had to wait another month to stabilize more before going in. which is stupid.
so the two people that have been kindof taking watch care over me are one of my comrades and The Mother; and i talked to The Mother and this is what i said: i said that i didn’t want and don’t want to go to a treatment facility where i have to go to group activities all day for three months. I am an isolationist. I’m an introvert. i might learn from it but it would drain me and i don’t want to spend three months around people that i don’t know doing things that i don’t want to do in groups. on top of that the medicine that The Doctor has me on is bad for me and wrong. i called them and scheduled an appointment for this thursday at 2:00 so that i can switch medicines. I want to be on gabapentin, clonazapam, and ritalin; but i talked to a dude, (i’ve been talking to people in public a lot, partly to get away from my roommates, spending more time outside the apt. – but more on that in a bit) and this dude recommended some kindof better version of ritalin that you can buy off of amazon dot com. so i’m gonna get it next month and start taking it and see if it can give me focus and energy.
so long story short i am not, (probably), going to go to treatment. I don’t want to be around people 24/7 and i don’t want to waste my time and i don’t want to get off drugs.
but: —– i need structure in my life, and it’s time to DO something about it. i spent my twenties doing whatever the fuck i wanted and i am happy about that but my body and mind and life are in kindof shabby conditions. I talked to a case manager for the first time yesterday to ask for advice and they told me something brilliant. “Discipline is doing things that you don’t want to do.” I had never put that together before. it’s time for me to start doing things that i don’t want to do at all; cause they’re good for me. but i won’t want to do them, and i have to start doing things that i don’t want to. i don’t know why that never made sense to me before but it didn’t, and it does now.
so i’ve decided that i want to go back to college. I have to do the fafsa and sign up for the pell grant and enroll and all that shit, but i am going to go back to college and get my AA and then move on to a four year school.
2. i am seeing someone and it is making me really happy.
3. i got fucked up yesterday, last night, and i’m still fucked up and i’m really happy about it.
4. by the end of the month i am going to have my own space. by april i will have my own space, whether that is in this place or somewhere new with my comrades; but if i am still living here it is going to be ALONE. starting april. end of discussion.
5. my teeth are in really shitty shape. got to get a lot of work done on them. I brush them three times a day now. i have to cut back on my smoking too.
6. i got a girl’s number a few nights ago. first time i’ve ever done that. me and my paramour are poly, we decided today over breakfast, so i might call up this girl and say what’s up, or however it is said. but: —- i really like the persyn i am seeing now, and don’t want it to change much.
7. i have like four new zines, and new ideas for two more new ones. i’ll be going to college to learn how to write and to be able to teach eventually.
8. i need money like mad. fuckin broke.
9. other than all that it is looking up; not depressed and feeling chipper and swell, coming out of a fog and happy about it.
10. i’ll take a nap now.
p.s. Bakker is done with The Unholy Consult. Stoked!!!!! i can’t wait.