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06/04/2013 14:19 #57762

Oh, joy
Category: family
Well, my mom admitted herself to buffalo general the other day. it was actually friday, but she didn't tell anyone until saturday.

I ended up not finding out until much later that day after receiving an upsetting text message at work from my roommate Michael. After calling around and texting every family member a zillion times, i finally got the information out of Sarah. It was a non emergency, and she's fine, physically. She is getting released, today, tuesday after they monitored her for a few days and upped her dose. I went to visit her yesterday, an she seemed to be doing well.

I confronted April, finally.

Last night after she had been causing a raucous for a few hours, i finally hit the wall. She'd been playing loud music and being loud with my other sister, then fought with my other sister, then fought with her boyfriend a few times on the phone... In the middle of her creating drama on the phone with him again, i i finaly got out of bed, walked to her room, and made her hang up immediately.

I began to explain that I was done, that I had had it with her screaming, etc, and it turned into a full on screaming match for a moment. It quickly turned civil, though. I am just not a screamer. I don't have it in me. I was so... repressed? anxious? angry? that when we sat on the couch to talk about things, i was physically trembling. I couldn't stop for 20-30 minutes while i tried to explain myself and my frustrations. This naturally upset her, because she'd never seen me like that before.

I think it was my body just kind of dealing physically with how emotionally upset i was with her. I've never trembled like that before. I was quaking.

Towards the end of it, i think i got my point across... That when I'm home, I just want to feel safe, comfortable, and secure. That when she yells so much like that, it's impossible for me to feel comfortable or safe.

She did the whole crying "i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i'm so terrible, i'm the worst, you hate me" thing but that's not what i was looking for.

i don't care if she's sorry. I wasn't there to talk about how terrible she is. I was there to talk aout how i feel about the way she acts, an that i want a change, or something. Sorry doesn't solve anything. Sorry doesn't work.

it ended well, i think? i got my point across, she seemed to understand my frustrations...

I don't know if anything will change.
Robert - 06/04/13 22:15
(e:heidi) yes you are right. I shouldn't have to.

She said that she would try harder to be more conscientious of her yelling and all that and she said that in the next few days that she'd be calling around to see a therapist. I'd like her to go to anger management or something of the sort.

She has definitely struggled with issues of mental health for most of her adult life, so i've been aware of her struggles, but i don't think i was quite so aware that she was this angry of a person? i think her situation with her bf has aggravated it to a new level and that she kind of lost her comfortable life with her ex-fiance... i think she is strill struggling with learning to be independent again. She's also stopped taking a lot of mood-related medications that had her very sedated for years, so i think she is years behind with learning how to deal with different stresses. before she was so medicated she'd drink the pain away, so not turning to self-medicating or prescribed medicating is hard for her. she wants to feel what she has to feel while taking only what she needs to as a prescription (anti-anxieties, anti-depressants...) i even think she may be off of those... i can't remember anymore.

supposedly, she's now broken up with her bf for the last and final time, so we'll see.

metalpeter - 06/04/13 19:23
Yeah I agree with (e:Heidi) it does sound like a mental health thing or it could just be a Behaviour hard to know.. Not sure how one really gets help for that.... It is hard to know at what point someone should get help... But maybe you confronting her will also help her.... If she really didn't know it was a problem then now that she does it could make things better....
heidi - 06/04/13 17:12
I'm glad you finally said something. You shouldn't have to live with that kind of anxiety, stress and discomfort, family member or no. Did you ask for any particular actions? From what you've written over the past several months, it sounds like she's got some unaddressed mental health issues. Does she know why she's screamy all the time? Does she have that kind of self-awareness?

06/04/2013 01:45 #57759

Gay Pride Buffalo 2013
Category: pride
Was a great pride this year. The best one that i can remember going to in quite a long time... or ever, really.

I had an awesome weekend despite some family issues that kind of snuck up on me.

I feel like things are going well in ways i didn't really expect and I'm grateful for that. I mean, of course there are things that stress me at the moment, but... i manage. i think?

I think if i just accept that i am perpetually surrounded by crazy people, it will bother me a lot less.

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omg i had such a crush on the purple boy. He can sex me.

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paul - 06/04/13 09:18
I agree, woof to mr purple.
metalpeter - 06/04/13 04:46
wow those are great pictures.......

06/04/2013 00:44 #57758

the wonders of paper+lunchytimes
Category: food
Last thursday, i worked the lunch shift, and then went out to lunch at cafe 59 with (e:terry) and (e:heidi). i got the barbecue portobello sandwich. 'twas quite a lovely lunch :)

after, i went up and took some food to erica. w sat and talked for a while. she has these cool pads of paper with lots of art and designs on them, and you can kinda just use them for crafty things... she made these folded up things that i shot would be pretty cool to turn into lanterns if you put the fat bulb christmas lights in them... i wanna try making them.

she has a beautiful singing voice.

i got some laundry action in, and then met with john to rehearse a few scenes with him. honestly, it went pretty well. seems like we'll get a long just fine. he kind of reminds me of myself. Which makes me worry for him.

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05/30/2013 03:22 #57732

old shirt given new life!
Category: clothes

this was my favorite thundercats shirt for years, but it got too tattered to use... so i cut it up to see if i could make it wearable again.

i guess it looks okay? i am shy to wear it out... but we'll see.

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metalpeter - 05/31/13 16:48
Well If you are going for the tough guy look it works... Maybe it is just the facial expressions in the photos but you look ready to beat someone one up.... Or maybe it just that in these shots you look like this wrestler named Austin Aries not sure if I spelled that right wrestles for TNA
paul - 05/30/13 08:54
This is what I love about summer.

05/28/2013 23:45 #57728

ribbons
Category: memories

cleaning my room, i took out my keepsake boxes to put some new things in, and i found my old summer camp ribbons. i loved going to summer camp!

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paul - 05/28/13 23:59
You got a lot of first places.