Problems growing exponentially after my friend's suicide.

RiderOnTheStorm
Community Member

Hi, Beyond Blue. I am an extremely smart and popular student from a great middle class family.

I am, also, an emotionally unstable bisexual alcoholic (or close to becoming one), who can not miss a chance to take something stronger than liqour to kill the pain and void, which I often feel since I was 13, or to make my anomalously high level of unreasonable happiness even higher.

Around two weeks ago, while experiencing that "anomalously high level of unreasonable happiness", I learned that my... friend... commited suicide. We did not talk for over than a year, because of some argument. And, actually, she was probably the person to which my feelings were closest to "love".

At first couple of days these news went pretty unnoticed to me. It did not matter much to me, as I was completing each of my difficult assignemnts, which usually take me ages to finish, in less than 3 hours, partying, having great time with my lover. Then, however, the realisation have started coming down on me. Instead of the study, that I planned for one evening, I broke up with my lover over the phone, went to the club, danced, drank excessive amounts of alcohol, had sex with another guy, who I knew just for 15 minutes. In another couple of days as my maniacal happiness was continuing I was continuing to party, consume drugs and engaging in risky behavior, still trying to hide those news.

As that time, as everythig good, came to an end, and I returned to having a normal, but slow, life. Still, however, I was trying not to think about what two days ago dropped me into this void of drunken misery.

I regret so much. I regret that we were not together this year and last. Hell, I don't know what to do, and even my abuse of alcohol doesn't get me out of this mess for even, at least, a couple of hours.

 

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kanga_brumby
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

RiderOnTheStorm welcome to forums. Sorry for your loss. Alcohol and recreational drugs are the last things you need right now. They don't help hide the pain or the memory of a deep loss. They only make your body sick. I have tried to deaden the pain of losing the love of my life. The mother of my children. So I am aware of the pain the brain goes through. Try talking it through with your GP, get a counseling session that should help a lot more.

Try to get advice from others even in here, There are a lot of caring people in here. Keep in contact

Kanga

romantic_thi3f
Champion Alumni
Champion Alumni

Hi RiderOnTheStorm,

Welcome to the forums and thanks for your post.

Firstly I want to say thank you for being here. I am very sorry for your loss and reading what you've been through makes me see so much courage and bravery for you posting today.

I feel like alcohol for many people can be a way to numb out. Certainly it's not the only way; others use recreational drugs; others eat; others self-harm; others shop. But it's almost always a way to try not to feel the feelings. Feeling has become too hard. So to me it makes complete sense why you did those things that night and the way I see it you have nothing to regret. That was the best way for you to cope in that moment.

The good news is that you're here, which makes me think that there's a part of you that wants to find other coping tools so that you can have a better life; one where maybe things can be a little more stable - and for the most part, predictable. Find the highs that are natural (and cheaper) and won't leave that crash and burn feeling.

and for that; this is not something you can do alone. So if I'm on the right path here (and I might not be), it might be time for you to reach out more and make an appointment. Life doesn't always have to be this way.