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Entire 8 Chapter of Out of Darkness - The Forgetful Sea of Moans

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

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The years of hospitals and doctors are just a dream now. The drinking is now gone, a new life has begun. It just doesn’t seem possible to really be free. Bad days now don’t even compare to those of a long time ago when I had no soul because I was polluted with over-prescribed prescriptions.

(640 PILLS A MONTH. SOMETIMES NUMBERS CAN BE DECEIVING, AS THE STRENGTH HAS A LOT TO DO WITH IT.)

My mind was numb yet the pain so real, I believe I went to the Dark Side and lived there for years. I had an uncontrollable fear of every single day and yes nighttime was worse than the day would be; it hurt to breathe

(MY LUNGS WERE ENCASED IN CEMENT WITH NO ROOM TO EXPAND?VERY PAINFUL!)

or even to think, as it seemed as though my brain was enclosed in some type of no-give substance. The only way out, I’m sure you can see, was to end it all quickly before another endless day of negative thinking, a day with no meaning, a day in the pit where I heard only the moans of the others who were there before me, sucking out our life, making it hard to breathe. I was fading fast into that forgetful sea!

The sea shows no mercy, not even a clue. All you experience is suffering from moment to moment until the mind finally breaks. Then come the voices that scream and yell, never letting you rest, always saying, ?There are your friends!?

Your real friends start to leave you because your behavior has become obscene. They lost a good friend to mental illness. Little did they know the hurting you went through, the fighting of voices and all that goes with the territory, the demons that are now gone.

They could not see the same thing that you saw and all the while you could see the last part of you that was free sliding closer to that grave. You were all alone no matter how much support they all gave; it seemed they all were on the wicked side now, which had stolen my life and all my dreams and left me with nothing. Yet through it all something inside me refused to give in!

So you see, that forgetful sea, the one now gone, will have to move to the next lost and tortured soul because I chose life, that all may see the happiness and joy that’s burning inside of me, that ever-glowing flame that will just not be put out!

Please know that the forgetful sea of moans can be overcome! I have not been to the physic ward in five years and the sea has no choice to spite me out of it’s grasp and I will never step foot in it again and you can do the same! Remember that the sea of moans cannot control you when you see the light of day, it will run and hide, it will be scared away by your will to survive and see that your life is moving past the wretched place that sucks all the life out of those who get stuck there.

Not you though you have seen the light and now you are going to walk toward it and in the minute you decide this you will be relaxed from the forgetful sea of moans and you will never return to the place were many of souls were lost.

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First Signs of a Life of Pain - Out of Darkness 1 st Chapter

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

When I was a small child I would tremble with fear and hide underneath my covers every night hoping that the hideous monster that lived under my bed would not devour me in one bite. I mean I would literally keep my head covered for three to four hours at a time a pee to bed instead of going to the bathroom, knowing I was going to get in trouble because I wet to bed. AAn ass whooping wash better than getting eaten by a monster, that I actually would see or thought I would see! The sheer and utter fear running through my veins I can’t relate in mere words. I would see a ghost as I shivered in fright, hear things that only I heard, and see things no one else saw. I would do almost anything to keep from being alone.

(I DREADED BEING BY MYSELF.)

I would spend days with friends over or be at their house. I had tons of friends, needed them all as they were my lifeline, my pulse, so to speak. If I wasn’t alone the fear was far less. I am sure this drove my parent’s nuts as I was always asking if someone could spend the night or if I could stay over at their house.

Now when they would say no, I thought that I might die! I mean if someone was staying over there was a less chance of the monster or ghost getting me, can’t they see that I “NEEDED” them, my friends!

My father had no patience with me whatsoever and this bothered me a lot. I always felt as though he didn’t spend enough time with me, and this scared me. Now, don’t let me say it was just me. He never said I love you to any of us kids or to my mother, for that matter. My father did do things with us, it just seems like it wasn’t enough for me for whatever reason, not sure why. I do know that I have always wanted my dad to say I love you! I must tell you he did not say those words until I was thirty-three years old and it was one of the best days of my life! I was just beaming.

Now let me tell you this was not all my dads fault, back then they knew less about bi-polar and ADHD and this made it hard for our family relations and no one understood me and now I can see why. Please know that no one does anything to hurt other people. They do the best with what they have at that present in time in there reality.

(YOU’D THINK THAT I HAD JUST GOTTEN A NEW CAR OR SOMETHING!)

I am not trying to paint a negative picture of my father; it’s just that he was from the old school where men didn’t share their emotions very much. I know that now and understand it, but that does not mean that I like it because I don’t but being a father now I can understand where he was coming from and why he had to do what he was thaughttaught and I in return, raise my children in a totally different way. I must say the way chidsChilds are today maybe just maybe they should let some of this discipline ease it’sits way back into child rearing! I truly feel that that sort of upbringing hurts a child in many ways! I tell my children I love them sometimes up to four times a day and I feel that it helps them to grow up knowing that someone cares about them. I don’t, however, believe my father had anything to do with the fact that I could literally not stand to be alone!

Then there was the problem of the endless amount of energy that I had. Wasn’t sure where it came from or how to get rid of it, or what to do about it! Energy that I always had.

(GO?GO?GO?GO?)

Never slowing down, energy always there, without fail. My mind would race for hours upon hours?a lot of things to do! Yes, I was hyperactive, wasn’t sure why. Just wanted to slow down! I wanted to cry!

(I WANTED TO SLEEP FOR A CHANGE!)

This affected me everywhere, at school and at home. I was always interrupting everyone and getting yelled at for it, I could not slow down, I was always getting in trouble in school, getting yelled at home and I was alfulawful anxious all the time like being on pins and needle all day long and after awhile it would strartstart to hurt! I would never shut up, I mean I would go on and on and this drove my parents and teachers nuts. At times, I thought they were going to wring my neck!

I remember back in first grade I was always getting into trouble for talking out aloud and interrupting the class. At times I could not stay in my seat, always had to be moving, I mean what do they expect from me I was only seven at the time and I was born prematurely and I think this gave me a predisposing to have a mental health disorder, I am sure of it now looking back! The only thing that saved me was the fact that my first grade teacher loved me; she treated me like a king! Yet at times, she had to be firm with me, putting me in the corner, or sending me on one of my frequent visits to the principal’s office. I remember going to the pricplesprinciples off often and I would see Mr. KrinkyCranky and we all called him, Mr. Twinkie, I remember slipping once and calling him Mr. Twinkie, and let me tell you he let loose on me and my ass was red and throbbing, I really could barley sit down for real! Lambert was a true angel, even when she would sit me in the corner with the dunce hat on. When I stop and think back to those days, I remember I couldn’t stand those stupid hats. What a terrible way to punish someone, to make them wear a damn hat.

(HOW EMBARRASSING!)

Yet I remember clearly that this was the practice in the real early seventies. I guess it was better than going to the principal’s office to get a whack!

I mean you are sitting in the class roam and everyone was looking at you in the corner wearing that big white hat and you knew you were going to get laughed at recess, yes they would tease me but I was always ready to fight!

Needless to say I didn’t do too well in first grade; actually I got held back. At that point in my life it wasn’t too bad, as I was too young to realize the true significance of being held back. Yet I can remember telling myself that I was a dummy and wasn’t smart enough. You would think that they could see that since I was so hyper and did poorly in school that I had ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder), yet nobody even considered the fact that I may have had a mental illness. This puzzles me to this day. You would think that our family physician would have realized that I had ADHD, but he didn’t and oh, how this would have helped me greatly if I could have had my Ritalin, because I’m not sure I can explain how hard schoolwork was for me.

(I MEAN IT WAS TOUGH!)

I CAN HONESTLY SAY THAT SINCE I HAVE BEEN ON RITALIN I CAN NOW SAY I HAVE CREATIVE TALENT THAT WAS NOT PRESENT BEFORE!

Being held back was made a little more tolerable because one of my best friends got was held back also. His name was Kevin and we were great fiends. We played together every day. Either heHe was at my house or I was at his, or we were up at the school playing football or basketball or baseball, we played them all. This was back when you didn’t have to worry about your kids playing outside. We were only six or seven and, we could go three blocks away, and play until the streetlights came on, then it was time to get home. AndIn addition, I always went home, because I did not want to get my dad after me, that I cancould tell ya. His wrath was terrifying. All he had dodone was look at me and I behaved, of this I can assure you. AndIn addition, if I didn’t listen it was off with the belt, and let me tell you he let me have it! I was terrified of my father. This was back in the days when discipline was still allowed, and let me add we listened!

Now don’t think my father was all bad because he wasn’t, just to me everything bad I remember was REALLY BAD, and good stuff doesn’t seem so good as I go back into my childhood life!

Now my mother was much easier, yet if we pushed her to the limit she would really let us have it. I received hundreds of spankings by my mom! They wouldn’t hurt that bad at all, but I dared not laugh or she would really let loose, so I always acted like it really hurt. We didn’t want to push her too far, however, because then she would tell DAD.

(AND THEN IT WAS LIGHTS OUT!)

When that happened we were honestly scared the rest of the afternoon because whenever we didn’t obey my mother my dad would tear into us really good. That was one thing my father would not accept?not respecting our mother?and it was off with the belt and I mean when they say you won’t be able to sit down for a week, it was true, because he would let us have it! Needless to say I only received two or three spankings from my dad, that’s all; I knew better than to push my mom that far!

Now do I believe you should be spanked? Great question and I would say it depends. Now I don’t spank and to tell you the truth I probably should the way my children treat there mother is a tragedy so say the least! I mean if they ever talk to me like that I would lower the boom on them, so basically if I would spank it would a love just hard enough so they knew they wouldn’t want another!

Now let me tell you about the time I lit the front porch on fire. I took gasoline and put it under the porch in our secret hideout. Our house was absolutely huge. I mean gigantic is a word that better described it; you could literally get lost in it! The porch went from one side of the house and two-thirds of the way around to the other side. Now, there were about five blocks missing on our front porch, enabling us to crawl under there and play. It was a cool place to play; all the neighbor kids and I loved to play under there.

Well one day my friend David and I decided to play under there. I had this bright idea?why not dig a hole and then get all the gas out of the garage and start a fire? I thought to myself, what could it hurt? The fire would stay in the hole we dug, how could anything go wrong? Well, I’m sure you can figure out that this spelled certain disaster and you are right! Before you know it the whole front porch on fire! We didn’t know what to do!

“Hurry,” I said to David, “go get the hose from the side of the house, we gotta get this thing out, or my dad is going to kill me!”

I was frantically throwing dirt on it but could not get it to stop! My worst fear happened?I had caught the house on fire! I needed to go for help. I ran into the house screaming to my mother, “The house is on fire, the house is on fire!”

As you might imagine, this sealed my doom. The next thing I knew the fire department was down to the house and I was sitting in a chair inside crying! Once the flames were all put out, in came my mother, who was fit to be tied?and who could blame her? You want to know the scary part? She just let me sit in the chair for an hour, not speaking to me. I knew I was in deep trouble because this meant I had to face my father. Let me tell you, I never set anything on fire ever again. Still, I think with my ADHD and an overactive mind my parents weren’t able to handle me at times, and this is understandable. I needed that Ritalin and didn’t get it.

So yeah some of it was the fact that I was hyper and was always trying to get into some kind of trouble, but a part of me could not help, I really mean that, I really felt as though I had to be doing something all the time, even if it meant getting in trouble.

Anyway, back to my school days. As I mentioned, I was held back in the first grade, and this really wasn’t that bad, because the teacher was always in my corner. She loved me.

(I WAS THE CLASS CLOWN!)

I would spurt out things here and there and even the teacher would crack up. I still had to sit in the dunce’s corner sometimes but not as much as I did the first year. I rarely had to go to the principal’s office anymore, so that was good. Everyone loved me! I was king of the class! Man did it feel good, so yes the second year was easier than the first. What’s more, I honestly could remember some of the material from the first year and I received decent grades, which was rare for me in grade school, because I couldn’t understand the stuff.

In spite of that, I was still always getting in trouble for running in the halls. Walking just wasn’t fast enough for me, because I always had to go?go?go?. One time I was running down the hall and was just about to turn the corner and

(WHAM!)

I ran right into a teacher carrying an old record player (remember, this was in the days before CD’s). There I was, blood all over; you know how a head wound bleeds.

Wouldn’t have been so bad except I had to get stitches and that was when I started screaming. I was petrified of doctors and hospitals. It literally took six people to hold me down, this I can remember. I screamed and screamed and carried on like they were going to take out a kidney without any anesthetics. I really don’t know how the doctor was able to sew me up. You would think that would give someone an idea that I had a mental illness, yet still no one caught on. I think my actions as a kid clearly showed that I had ADHD. I just wish that someone would have figured it out; it would have saved me tons of pain! Although I had plenty of the symptoms, I wasn’t put on Ritalin until I was thirty-three.

I can honestly tell you if you do indeed do have ADD or ADHD the Ritalin really does help and you can finally think things through and understand things that never seemed possible to me, as if I never wrote a book until after I received Ritalin, so you be the judge?

I must say when I passed first grade, I was kinda sad. I mean I really loved Mrs. Lambert. We became good friends and she had a positive effect on my life. Even years down the road I have always gone back and, stopped in, and visited her.

Now let’s talk about my nightmares. They were terrifying and paralyzing at the same time, and half the time I would swear they were real!

Not sure if my having ADHD was one of the reasons for seeing and hearing things, but they were so real to me. Live ghosts sucking out my very last breath. Watch out! A skeleton running wildly after me from the bathroom. Oh, how I hated nighttime. How I feared the darkness. As the day crept closer to night I’d feel worse and worse, without fail. I knew that hell was right around the corner and was ready to appear with all the bastards eagerly waiting to take their turn to make my life a worthless mess and a living hell.

(IT WAS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!)

I CAN BE BRUTALLY HONEST WITH YOU, STILL TO THIS DAY HAVE NIGHTMARES, HIT THE WALL WHILE I AM SLEEPING, FALL OUT OF BED, YELL AND SCREAM IN MY SELP AND DON’T EVEN KNOW I AM DOING IT UNTIL MY WIFE OR KIDS TELL ME SO, SO NIGHTIME REALLY IS NOT MUCH FUN FOR ME AT TIMES STILL!

When the sun went down, it would take me hours upon hours to get to sleep; I’d toss and turn all night long. I would wake up and it would feel like I just went to bed! I would never get any rest; I felt as tired as or worse than when I lay down. It was very painful, the continuous and sheer energy without a safety shut-off switch.

(OH, HOW I LOVED THE DARK!) (NOT!)

I would never just go to bed and fall asleep. Never. I would I just lie there under my covers and fear the darkness with a passion, and my mind just loved this. It would create things that I could be afraid of. How about this, it would say, and that, and then I would just dwell on its suggestions.

(A TERRIBLE THING TO DO!)

Without even wanting to I just made matters worse and worse. My mind would never shut off, not sure why.

I really think I was my own worst enmyenemy because anytime some thing went wrong. I would mangnifymagnify it a thousand times over and over until I would get sick yes I threw up very often when I got all worked up and woldwould not stop for a couple of days, my Dr. always said he will grow out of it! Guess what I am thirty -seven and I still haven’t grown out of it?

I do know one reason I was so afraid of the dark?because of the closet incident. That really terrified me and made matters far worse than they needed to be! But more on that later. Here I’ve been telling you this story of my life and I haven’t even introduced my family yet.

(PLEASE FORGIVE ME!)

I am the youngest of four boys. My oldest brother, Jeff, is about eleven years older than I am. As siblings go we never really had too many problems. He was the one who always helped me with my homework, especially math?he was great at that! Yet later it was from his and my brother Bill’s room where I would get some of my marijuana and other drugs. They lived up in the attic, which went over the whole house, man they were lucky!

Jeff was the one I would always steal from, and not just drugs! I’d take his change. I think what really pissed him off was when I took from his coin collection, man was he mad. Yet he could never prove that I did it, even though he knew it was me! I would also steal from our lunch money fund (we all did), and my dad’s coin collection, so don’t let me sit here and tell you I was a perfect child because I was not. I was ornery and I have always wanted to have money!

(WHO DOESN’T?)

My next brother was Bill, a few years younger than Jeff. I really don’t remember having a lot of problems with him either, yet there had to be some. Well, there was one time that comes to mind. He had gotten a new pump BB gun, and we were all fascinated with it and thought he was hot shit. We were outside one day after it had rained. Well, he told me, “Take off your shoe and put it in that water puddle, then I’ll shoot your foot.” Now he assured me that it wouldn’t hurt because the water would stop the BB. Being the gullible little brother that I was, I said sure! Let me state here that I really believed him, really believed that it would not hurt and the BB would be stopped. So I put my foot in the water and then

BAM!

Man, I started screaming, “Mom, mom!” Yes, it hurt, and man was I screaming and crying. Needless to say I would not have loved to have been Bill when my dad got home! I really don’t hold any hard feelings against him, we were just being kids. It’s just sometimes you are on the receiving end, and I guess that day it was my turn to receive.

(DARN IT!)

Then there was my brother James. He was just a year and a half older than me, and we never got along, never. We were always fighting for some reason, and he always won. I was just a small runt after all! I mean a really small runt and he would kill me all the time. There were plenty of times when I asked for it, yet he would really let me have it and of course, I was the type who had to have the last word no matter what. Even when he had just whooped my butt, out came more from my mouth and he didn’t like that and would give me some more. I mean he was ruthless and used to kick my butt, I really mean, kick my butt. Please know he was not all that bad, as he was the one who always protected me from bullies, because I was small but had a big mouth. I’m just being honest here.

I’ve already talked a little about my mom. Even though she could be tough, we almost always deserved it, that I can assure you. Mom and I got along great most of the time. I was her baby and got away with murder at times, and oh, how I loved my mom, we were very close and whenever a problem came up it was always Mom, Mom, Mom, and she would always come running to help me. I will never forget the love she extended to me! I have very fond memories of my mother and the things we would do together. She was our den leader in Boy Scouts and Webelos.

Last but not least, there was Dad. Let me tell you, I love my father and was always looking for his approval, as it meant so much to me that I can’t explain it to you in words. I don’t want to paint a picture of my dad like he was this tyrant; you just have to remember what time frame this was and how he had been raised. He came from an era when you listened to your folks, and he made sure that was the case in our house. My children even mind him.

(HOW HE PULLS THIS OFF IS BEYOND ME.)

My dad did make a big effort to spend time with us kids. When we were in Boy Scouts he was the scoutmaster. This wasn’t easy, as he was always working to support our family. I must tell you those are some of my fondest moments that I have of my father and me spending time together and I cherish them to this day! So Dad was not all bad and don’t let me sit here and tell you he was, because that is not the case.

I remember one time at scout camp this mean guy tried to get me to eat this crap I didn’t want and he mad me sit there for a few hours, well to make a long story short my dad finally figured out that I was not around and he found out what was going on, I saw him running up the hill and yelling this other guy and when I saw dad I started to cry! Let me tell you that other got his ass beat, dad clean his clock and that was the last time I ever had a problem with that fellow.

Now that you’ve met my family, let me tell you about an incident that had a huge effect on my young life. One day my mom was giving my brother James and me a bath, and we were playing and have a good old time! Fighting for this toy and that one, I mean really driving our mother crazy; this was when we were small children, of course. Anyway, we were playing and my brother got really mad at me for some reason. Suddenly he yelled out,

“YOU ARE NOT MY BROTHER, YOU WERE ADOPTED!”

Oh, how I didn’t understand this! Why wasn’t I told? What was wrong with me that my biological mother and father did not want me? I must truly be unlovable! How could they have lied to me all these years? Who was I really? Was there something wrong with me? I was only five years old yet the questions just started to pour out! Did I belong here? Did they really want me? Was I truly loved? I cried and cried for the longest time! How could this happen to me? I was now a misfit. I belonged to no one and no one really loved me the way I should be loved.

Right or wrong, young as I was, that’s the way that I felt! These were just some of the questions that go through a small child’s mind and mine was very active and never really slowed down, and the questions just kept coming one right after the other. The more I would think of it the worse I would feel! You have the mind of a child and then

WHAM, IT HITS YOU!

A huge task of trying to sort something out that many young adults and older adults have trouble with, let alone a five-year-old, and with the way my mind worked it spelled certain disaster and terrible results to follow! I can’t remember much back to that point, yet I can tell you I never really got over it and to this day it is one of my least favorite things to remember. I can’t recall all the details. I just know that that night in the bathtub changed me forever and by now I am sure you can tell that it wasn’t for the good. Oh, how I longed to be part of something that was real. Everything up to that point was all just a dream and my reality was shattered.

(DAMMIT, THAT HURT ME BAD!)

Then there was the time that someone locked me in a closet for three hours. Yes this terrified me. (And no, it wasn’t my parents who locked me in there.) I believe that this is why I have always been afraid of the dark and nighttime. I remember yelling and screaming and kicking the door until my hands and feet were throbbing with pain!

(I HAD TO GET OUT!)

(WONDERING IF I WAS GOING TO LIVE!)

(WAS THAT HIDEOUS MONSTER GOING TO GET ME?)

Was this where I first got the idea of the monsters and ghosts? I can’t remember how old I was; all I can tell you about this is that it terrified me and that

I NEVER REALLY HAVE GOTTEN OVER THE PAIN OF THAT EXPERIENCE!

Why would someone do such a cruel thing? Not sure! I can’t even remember who did this to me at all, but what I can tell you is that it really messed me up bad and made my life a living hell. Oh, how I feared the dark and nighttime from then on; it was like going to hell at age five or six. Every day for a long, long time afterward I kept reliving the closet feelings over and over. I can’t even explain to you how I felt and how hard I was screaming for a solid straight three hours. I really thought I was going to die!

(OH HOW MY THROAT WAS RAW!)

When would it end? What kind of childhood did I have? You tell me! When remembering back it is like a picture of an abstract painting with thousands and thousands of colors but with only the opportunity to see black and white. Schoolwork continued to be hard for me and only got worse. I just couldn’t understand what the teachers were saying.

(IT WENT IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER.)

Oh, how I longed to be like the kid next door! Oh, how the creatures and the dreaded ghosts and the hideous monsters and let’s not leave out the Master of Darkness

(JUST AN EXPRESSION OF THE DARKNESS AND HOW IT ALL MADE ME FEEL)

would be thrilled with their plan.

Pain would be their main theme, a life of pain! They all could see that it was working like the Master’s dream come true! The hellish nightmares continued night after night and if you must know, I still have weird and whacked out dreams sometimes that remind me of a time long ago, but they are finally toning down now that I am thirty-three and well on the road to recovery. Sleep is still something to be desired at times but not very often, only once in a blue moon, I might add. With a lot of hard work I am getting better and the pain is almost gone! From time to time it rears its ugly head, but the Master knows he should have gotten me when he had his chance! I believe one day that I shall be free of all the pain.

(OH, HOW THE MASTER OF DARKNESS HATES THOUGHTS AND WORDS LIKE THESE.)

Anyway, when I was a kid things went well enough that I could function and appear normal

(WHATEVER THAT IS)

to the untrained eye. HEY, you can’t breathe yet, it’s just starting. Fifth grade? that’s when things started getting worse.

(WORSE? JUST LISTEN.)

I got put in LD. How embarrassing, me with a learning disability, no way. I did so poorly in fifth grade that they decided to ship me to another school that had an LD program. I needed to be put in two LD classes, math and English. I was literally devastated. I would have to make new friends and this scared me; I did not like this idea at all and I told my parents that. I cried and cried. What was wrong with me that I had to be put into special classes? Lost all my friends, how could I go on, what was I gonna do? At that point I thought about giving up and ending it all! At the tender age of twelve I thought my life was over! A new school and the embarrassment of the special classes I was put in.

(WHEN WOULD THIS CRAP END, WHEN WOULD I GET A BREAK?)

The master was licking his lips; he had almost won! The life he sought after was almost his, but then a funny thing happened. I saw a tiny ray of light and hope.

(YOU WOULD THINK I WOULD REMEMBER THE TURNING POINT. I CAN’T, BUT THAT DAY I SAW HOPE FOR THE FIRST TIME!)

I told myself that I would work as hard as I could and get out of those funny LD classes, as I thought of them as for dorks or someone lesser than myself. Now I know they are just people like you and me with their own crosses to bear.

(PLEASE DON’T JUDGE AS YOU MAY BE THE NEXT ONE WHO IS IN THE MASTER’S PLAN!)

Somehow I knew I was going to win deep down inside but it would take years to realize that dream. Slowly but surely my grades started to improve and I saw hope.

(YES, I SAID THAT POWERFUL WORD HOPE.)

But the Master of the Night wasn’t about to let me get away with a positive thought like that. That’s when he let out the furious attack that led to the smoking of dad’s pipe! Seems innocent enough but if you only knew what a long and winding road this was going to take me down you would honestly cry for hours trying to find a way so this horrible story of pain and suffering would not have to happen in anyone’s life now or ever.

Going to the new school wasn’t so bad after all. Everyone thought I was a cool kid and all the girls wanted to go out with me, and they didn’t seem to mind that I was in those funny classes. You know how it is for the new kid; everyone likes him, including all the girls. After I had gotten used to it, I actually liked my new school and it was really fun and I was more popular at the new school than I ever was at the old one.

(I THOUGHT I WAS HOT SHIT.)

The coolest part of going to the new school was the fact that one day during gym, I hit my future wife in the face with a ball while we were playing dodge ball. I had to sit out the rest of gym because of that. I didn’t know that she would be my wife then; I didn’t even start to go out with her until a few years after high school. I didn’t even know her name at the time, as she was not in the “in crowd,” as us cool kids put it.

(POPULAR!)

I did just fine in the new school and passed the sixth grade, thank God. I really don’t think I could have handled another setback. I mean I failed first grade and almost failed fifth, I would have lost my marbles if I would have failed sixth. I didn’t start kindergarten until I was six because they said I was too immature and I am sure they were right. Just look at the tough time that I had in grade school.

Now it was off to junior high. Man, I thought I was a cool dude, only two years away from high school. My problems, unfortunately, only escalated.

Now I have to let you know that after starting school late and then failing I was a small kid because of the premature thing I am sure of, I could not play sports because I was too old for my grade. Now how do you think that makes you feel? You cannot play sports and you feel about so big and not in a good way! Therefore, this pushed me to the party crowed and this almost sealed my doom!

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Arthur Buchanan

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Sunday, October 21st, 2007

At times, the pain became so intense that I would turn to the booze and still take the pills. What a sight; I would be all drunk and on pills and hating myself and wanting to die but too afraid to kill myself because I thought I would go to hell, and that scared me so very much. Think about this. You are in a hole with no sign of light for years, never hearing the voice of hope or the words of love. In your own mind, you feel nothing and all you want to do is die.

You sleep some days for eighteen hours and don’t leave your house for weeks at a time. The kids want you to do something and it’s all you can do to still want to breathe. I must admit it’s very hard to have children and have a mental illness. The kids are screaming or everything is going nuts and you feel as though your head is going to explode from all the pressure you feel, and maybe you yell at them at an inappropriate time. Later you feel terrible, as you know you were the wrong one in that situation.

I must let you now with the proper medicine and lots of retraining your brain, I can handle the children and going out in public, I means sometimes they get on my nerves but what parent does not have it ruff once in a while, so with practice and taking medicines at certain times through out the day, It’s like a brand new life and it seems to just keep getting better all the time!

And then there were all those thoughts going through your head. How would your children perceive you when they get older? What would they tell their friends you did for a living? Would they be proud of you? Many nights I had to drink because I couldn’t handle them. Please know this wasn’t because I was a bad dad. The simple fact of the matter was, I was depressed and it was like looking through a funny pair of glasses that made the world seem to be in a certain way that normal folks who didn’t have depression could not see.

Was it tough? You bet. You feel like a failure when you can’t work and like a useless piece of you-know-what. How are you supposed to have any self-esteem when you are mentally ill and have a family to raise? What will your children think of you when they get older? This question runs through your head over and over again. Will they understand what you are going through or will they hate you because they had to do without? Are they going to be scared because at times you were so doped up that you didn’t know your butt from a hole in the ground?

I can honestly say that I know that even though I am on disability, my kids are proud of me and they tell there friends, hey my dad writes book for a living and the truth be told, I am getting to the point were all I will need to do is write? Then I can get off this disability and feel the pride in making my own way in the world and this makes me feel very special.

I have dealt with this firsthand. Needless to say my children were without a strong father figure for quite some time, and seeing their dad in a mental ward every month had to be terrifying, to say the least.

I want to touch on the area of my life as a husband and father during this period. You really want to be a better father and play with your kids and when you can’t it pushes you into depression even worse! You want to be a better husband and when you can’t it pushes you into depression even worse. You may ask yourself why you cannot.

The answer to that, my friend, is this?how can you when you can’t even manage your own life and stay off the booze or out of the bars? Can’t stand to go out in public and you come home drunk and yelling about this and that, making a real scene and throwing things through the window or chairs at the wall? I am sure this wasn’t healthy for my kids and I can’t remember if they were even up at the time, but I am sure at times I must have woke them up.

Now you must know this has all changed, I am a great dad and my kids love me and I never miss a game or a parade or just sitting and talking to them and telling them that I love them and most of the time it’s smooth sailing, ruff spots here and there but who doesn’t. So know after seven years of doing good and things are getting better and better, I must say it feels good.

Now don’t let me sit here and only paint a negative picture of myself as a parent, because this is not the case. I remember when my kids would come to the mental ward and we would play board games the whole time they were there. No matter how I felt, I would play games with them and when they were leaving I would grab some ice cream out of the freezer for them. I am not saying this made up for all the bad times. It just goes to show you that I truly did love my children, because no matter what I was going through, we would play board games and have ice cream and they looked forward to it, and yes, it made me feel like a million dollars to see those kids smile!

(IT ALWAYS HAS AND ALWAYS WILL.)

I really did enjoy being a good dad, and there were plenty of times that I was a good father in between my bad spells, because there were lots of pretty good times and times when I could work. Yet as the years passed those times got fewer and fewer and it just kept getting tougher and tougher. What kind of father and husband do you think you are? Do you think you are a good one? You know you’re not and this kills you in every way. It tears you apart at the seams. I don’t even know if I was that bad of a dad, this is just how I remember it. I may be too hard on myself, who knows, maybe not.

You feel like a total failure. You’re down on yourself, your self-esteem is at rock bottom and you figure you should not even try, because no matter what you do you seem to fail at it and turn to the booze, to help you cope. Your kids and wife see you getting drunk night after night to hide the biological unhappiness

(NOT YOUR FAULT!)

and do you think this makes you feel good? Of course it doesn’t. You feel worthless and like a bum, but you honestly can’t help it, it’s not your fault. So anyone out there reading this who has biological unhappiness and wants to be a better parent or a better spouse, continue to look for that doctor who can help make you feel better. If you aren’t getting any better then you need to go shopping around; they are out there. Please give the doctor time to work, just not forever. And know that if you are treated properly you will be a better spouse and parent and it will become easier and easier and the drinking will stop if you really want to recover and are feeling great.

Dr. Heller came right out and told me alcohol is poison for me with what I had and that he would treat me even if I continued to drink. So I decided right then and there that I would never take another drink, and you know why? I saw the hope in his eyes that was not present in all the other doctors; that’s just one of the things made him different. I could actually see myself getting better just by the way that he talked to me! I knew I would be able to go out in public with my family again. I would slowly play with my kids more, buy my wife that rose to make her day. These things can and do happen. That is just a small glimpse of my life as a father and husband and why it shapes up in the way that it does, and how with

HOPE

All this can change!

(SLOWLY.)

Things will come back to you, and if you never had it, roll up your sleeves and start the learning process. You can be a good spouse and a great parent, of this I am sure. I just thank God for my children’s mother, who is a strong woman and held this family together.

(Thank you, Melinda.)

Without her I would not be here today! On the other hand if any of you could feel or know what I went through you would certainly give me praise. Why? Because each time I would pick myself up and try again and again and again. I never quit trying no matter what the odds looked like stacked up against me.

I’ve always tried to work when I could and done everything in my power to overcome my downfalls in life and not let this mental illness, this “biological unhappiness,” get the best of me. For my wife I got up every day, for my kids I would take another breath when I just wanted to lie down and stop breathing. I could never leave my wife and children in so much pain.

Some day they will look back and know that not only did their dad love them, but he made every effort to get through this thing and make them proud of their old man! To my wife, I know I have caused you great pain, I would take it back in one minute, but your love, honey, kept me alive, and for the rest of my life I will work on becoming the best husband a woman could ever have. You are truly my inspiration; you are the meaning in this crazy, mixed-up world.

I sank so low that I stole from my mom, dad, and grandma to drink. Once, after I was completely wasted, I screwed a two-inch lag bolt through my hand. I went to the hospital to have it removed and that hurt more than anything I have ever felt! Then I was sent to the hospital in Cleveland. The only good thing to come out of that experience was the fact that they diagnosed me with BPD

(BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER).

That assessment was the key to my recovery and to getting proper help from an expert in that field.

I really thought that hospital in Cleveland was iffy in the way they treated their patients. Now don’t get me wrong, I have not hated all the mental wards that I have been in. There was one in Lorain, Ohio, that was great! I may not have gotten much better, yet it was a positive experience. They treated their patients with kindness and did not talk to us in a demeaning way, or as if we were children, just with love and kindness. That was a glimmer of hope and even though I didn’t realize it until years down the road, that was the first sign of light in the later years. Oh, how precious that first sign of light was!

After many years of pain and the suffering, that little bit of light was the hope that I needed when I lived in a world of darkness and pain. The light showed me that there is a way out! I had hope

(HOWEVER SMALL)

that I could recover and lead a normal life. That’s what all biological unhappiness people want. Love, life, and the total pursuit of happiness?without the existence of the total darkness you have lived in.

You can recover, you can win, and you can become the person you want! The ability of the human mind cannot be measured!

?Arthur Buchanan

The road we all travel, the path we must take, the choices we make are full of mistakes. The joy is in creating who and what you are. If you look at it that way, the vision is clear. Love is the answer, love is the answer.

?Arthur Buchanan

A life without joy was never meant to be. Happiness for a select few is not the design that God wanted it to be. He gave life to all that you may see, that happiness and joy begins with me being me!

?Arthur Buchanan

I must mention some of the things my grandma would do that made her so special to me at this time in my life. Throughout the whole depression process, my grandma was the one person I could call and talk to about how bad I was feeling, about how I no longer wanted to live, and so forth. I would complain to her how things just weren’t fair. How I was depressed and hated myself! When I needed a ride from the bar home at two in the morning, I’d call Grandma because it was easier than getting my wife up with all the kids. I would rant and rave and say this and that and complain the whole time and be a complete ass.

(AFTER ALL, I WAS DRUNK!)

She has also always helped me out financially. When I have needed money, she has been there and when I say money I am not talking about just a few hundred dollars here and there. There was the time when I was about $20,000 in debt from credit cards and she paid the bill so my credit wouldn’t be ruined. Through DUI’s and leaving the scenes, she paid all my fines, and bailed me out when I would get in over my head with credit cards.

If I tried to commit suicide she would be the one I called and it never failed that she would come running to my rescue and save my life by calling the proper people to see that I would not die! When I drove nails through my hands and feet, she would be the one I would call. When I cut my wrists, I would call Grandma and tell her what I had done! I must admit sometimes she would get pissed off at me, yet she would always come to my rescue. Like a knight in shining armor, there was my grandma to help pick up all the pieces and I will never forget what she has done for me!

I believe what meant the most to me was the fact that we would talk every day. I would pour my heart out to her because for some reason it was easier to talk to her than to my wife about my problems with depression. That’s the way it’s always been. I would talk to her up to three times a day, and to this day we still talk once a day, and I truly and honestly love her for all she has done for me. I am sure that I have not given justice to what she has done for me, yet I am trying to give you a small glimpse of what she has meant to me and done for me throughout all the years I have known her as my grandmother.

THANK YOU, GRANDMA, I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART!