I think I'm dying. Like, not in a traditional way. But I think I'm so depressed and so not-caring that I'm just slowly dying. First, I'm dying inside and then I'm going to die outside.
I recently found old pictures of me. Mostly pictures of me when I wasn't in the low-lows of my eating disorders, but when I was definitely still IN them. I was maybe 110 lbs (I was 5'5" back then) and I was smiling and happy, slim and confident. These were from maybe the years 2002 to 2006. I remember being happy.
It's gotten me so depressed tho. Like, why can't I get back there? Why can't I at least eat healthily, lose just a little weight, get a regular job, pay my bills, have a few good friends to talk to.... Why?? I've tried contacting an old friend from this time, a guy I talked to online and lied to, and who was maybe my best friend, and I've tried contacting my cousin, who I lied to, stole pictures and life stories, college essays and experiences from and pretended they were my own... I've tried apologizing to them both so many times... They just can't accept my apology. Mostly, they don't even reply. I know I hurt them both, but it's been like five years... Can't I be forgiven? Can't I be friends with them again and have close friends to talk to and laugh with? Why can't I have them in my life again? Why can't they let me in?
I've tried getting jobs, but everything is a dead end and I never hear from these places again. I've applied for admin assistant positions at dental offices, daycare centers, doctors offices, social services, lawyers offices, and more! I am holding down a barista right now and I coach a cheerleading team during the school year, but in NYC, these don't pay the bills. I need a real, honest to god, business like job. No one will take me.
I live in a small one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, complete with bars on the windows and the occasional gunshot heard at night, with a roommate. I sleep on the pull out couch and she sleeps in the bedroom. We share a bathroom and a small kitchen, no dining room. The apartment is small, dark, dirty in a way that cannot be cleaned, but the rent is outrages simply bc it's NYC. We really need to take on another roommate, but we don't have room. Where would he/she sleep? In the bath tub? I miss my old NYC apartment. Midtown Manhattan, one bedroom, one bath, a living room, full kitchen, dining area, large floor to ceiling windows, clean, beautiful, large ...all to myself. It was safe and beautiful. It was professionally decorated and bright and happy. I was happy. Now I'm depressed. How can I be happy in this dank apartment in the projects where I don't even have a real bedroom?
I'm planning a binge today. I have two job interviews (one at a college and another at a gym) and then I'm stopping by the convenience store to buy some biscuits and butter, some chocolate snack cakes, a couple of chocolate bars, some sugarcookies and vanilla icing, and some waffles or pancakes. Then I'll eat all of it in one fell swoop.
Then, I'm going to try to purge today.
I've got to get SOMETHING back. It's not going to be the starving, it's not going to be the friends, it's not going to be the job, it's not going to be the apartment. Maybe it can be the puking. Maybe then I'll have something.