An old song, I know…but this next diary entry is about that.
August 13, 1982
Skipped another night, when will I learn? Oh well, let me see, I want to talk about the “other person problem” AGAIN. But this will be the last night. This is a sub-problem entitled “just us two”, which I will discuss. (How about the unholy dance of the backstabbers?) When I am alone with one other person, that person is nice, often syrupy sweet nice. He or she will listen to all my problems, make vows to friendship, and act like my best buddy–life long friend. But, when another person comes along well that is a different story which I know all too well.
August ??? 1982
“A vacation to remember”, and I hope a good one at that. I want to make this vacation real fun and “problem free”. I hope to just take my meds and not talk about my problems or complain. I also hope to get in no fights and have one heck of a good time! I want this to be the first good vacation I’ve ever had. (some past vacations were O.K. but not GREAT.) (I had such great expectations: oh well, going from the locked ward to a vacation in like 7 weeks seemed very good at the time!) I will bring up this journal with me for my praying and talking with (to) You does not go on vacation. G’nite. (I will bring this journal with me for my praying and talking with (to) You, who never goes on vacation. Another adolescent brain fart. I do not see where I posted about my brief vacation that I had with my folks. It was OK…don’t really remember anything about it except I went horseback riding once and we stayed in a fancy hotel at one of our stops. Just remembered something. We went into the town that we were staying outside of and we went to a restaurant for dinner. A real one, not fast food. My mother ordered a drink and acted relaxed and loose. I had rarely seen her that way in my short life. I asked to taste her drink. Whew! nasty…when I was old enough to go to bars I never got that drink. I want it shaken not stirred and dry, very dry).
August 14, 1982
Dear God, I would first like to discuss Interpretation, the day-long process. Ex. I say something to Mom and she doesn’t respond. (She didn’t hear me or probably just nodded her head. I take it as a rejection. I do that all day long blow the little-lest things up into big rejections. I do this probably because I’m so scared of rejection, and I expect it, I look for trouble. This is what happens when I’m with a group of kids. Even when the “other person” problem isn’t there I think it’s there. II. “the big sacrifice” (had posted this before but it was out of order..part of August 14 post.) I know I’m sick, but I don’t want to go back to the hospital. To go back to the hospital would mean sub-average living conditions, strict rules, and kids! This would be a sacrifice. But staying on the “outs” means less therapy and much longer time, if at all, to get well. (Don’t worry kid, “they” won’t “let” you get “well”. “They” will lay off for awhile when you are college age and you will start feeling and acting better. Your therapist will say you are “well”. A few months later, the real stalking begins. Two years later, your therapist will be trying to put you on the antipsychotic meds you fought so hard to get off of.) So there is a sacrifice on both ends. I choose to sacrifice good therapy and getting well quick to stay on the freedom of the “outs”. I know this might be the wrong decision. (Best one I ever made. Targets in hospitals are routinely mistreated and perped. If that senior staff member had convinced me to go back in that place who knows what might have happened to me out of “revenge” against me taking off? I did go back a year later and literally went up to the gate to be let back in when I wasn’t doing well at home and the counselor that came to the gate said I was way beyond that place already, like I was too “well” or too “mature” to live there anymore. Glad that senior staff member wasn’t the one who came to the gate.) But I need support in what I’ve chosen and above all, I need STRENGTH! G’nite.
August 15, 1982
“The Final Rejection” Ex. A kid who was very friendly when I went into “that dreaded place” finally turned against me in 10 days.) I wonder why everybody now excepted except my family always rejects me. (Perp lies, perp lies. As for the family just you wait.) Well I have ideas, and it might be a curse, but still it mostly remains a mystery. If everyone else rejects me, even adults, my family will have to reject me finally. They’ll get sick of my misbehavior and say we tried but we just don’t want you. I’m so scared this will happen. G’nite more tomorrow
August 17, 1982
Dear God, “Reject before rejected” I commonly do this, I will act aloof (the kids think it’s stuck-up) but I’m really just scared of rejection. I will act really shy and apart because I think “why should I try and be friends? In the end, I’ll get rejected anyway.” Which is almost always true. It is not worth my while to make relationships that won’t last a month week? day? I figure this is a way of coping that I can do for a while at least till I’m better. I guess I’ll do this. Although I’ll attempt adults since they don’t pick on you. (Hell they don’t, they are just better at it and more subtle and can really screw with your life in a way that kids can’t. About the grammar and puntuation: I am trying to now post how I actually wrote the diary with the grammar mistakes still in there. Maybe I will leave the misspellings (but not typos) in there as well. Otherwise it seems like an adult trying to publish an adolescent dropout’s diary with an adult’s knowledge of writing.)
