A jounal written by an adult with the rare genetic disorder, PKU, approaching middle age and struggling with issues of diet, weight gain and the propect of diabetes.
Sunday, 28 September 2008
Fractured fairytales
I feel myself unravelling. I wonder if the way I see the world and my fractured place in it, is an accurate reflection of reality.
My last blood test came back as 980. I thought it would have gone down, not up.
I'm tired but can't sleep, hungry (sometimes) but can't eat. I start to feel that the world would be better off if I wasn't in it.
I was doing great with the Plexy 10 until I reached the end of the first box. It seems to happen that way. It's like I feel that having finished the box that should be it.
I can't handle stress but everything seems to be stressing me out. How do I stay motivated to stay on this supplement and diet if I don't give a rats about myself? It's a vicious cycle - I need to be on the supplement in order to feel better about myself but I need to feel better about myself in order to stay on the supplement.
To voice the actors lament, 'what's my motivation?'
I have no children, no 'other', significant or otherwise, in fact I hardly have any family at all. The motivation has to come from somewhere inside me and let's face it, sometimes it just aint there.
I used to think that a slow decent into madness would be a bit like Alice's trip to Wonderland (I use the word trip deliberately, as there is an opinion that Lewis Carol was on opium when he wrote it, explains a lot really)
However, it hasn't been a day dream to an exciting fantasy land, but one of anxiety and some despair. It wasn't until I developed an anxiety disorder that I realised that my happy slide into crazyville wasn't going to work out like that. Just another unfulfilled dream I guess.
Fairytales are supposed to start with "Once upon a time" and end with "And they all lived happily ever after." This one hasn't, so far. At least Alice had Wonderland.
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