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JMJ
I have to go to counseling tomorrow evening, and I’m scared. But I’m going, because I know that I need help with this.
I was going to kill myself last Tuesday, I went to evening Mass and decided while I was there that I would go through with the plan I made for myself on Christmas Eve, to kill myself by going swimming in the lake in our local park (which in Canada in the middle of the winter is almost guaranteed to cause death by hypothermia). I was going to do it right after Mass, but someone stalled me by asking if I wanted a ride home, and by the time I’d put him off, Father was there asking why I hadn’t gone to communion and if I was ok.
I told him that I was fine, but he didn’t believe me. He kept talking about God’s love and mercy, and said he was worried about me. I left, after that, feeling unsure. I still wanted to do it, I wanted to die, but I kept thinking about all the people who care about me, all the people I would be hurting. Not to mention risking eternal damnation.
So I went to talk to my pastor about it - and about cutting, because I’ve been doing that for over a month now (I used to cut when I was in high school, and had stopped for six years but have started again).
And now I have to go to a counselor tomorrow, and I think I am almost more afraid of going to talk to her about this (because what if doesn’t really help me?) than I was to go through with my plan for suicide.
So anyway, I am asking for prayers. Because I am not going to kill myself, since like I said it would hurt too many people and separate me from God. And, for the same reason, I am trying to stop cutting. Since I struggle with cutting like some people struggle with pornography, and both are evil, doctrinally, for the same reasons.
So, for tomorrow evening at 6pm EST when I am at this appointment, that it will go well and she will understand and it will help me. And for the coming weeks, that I will be able to stop cutting and overcome this completely. Because I belong to God, not pain.
in Christ
wayward
I have to go to counseling tomorrow evening, and I’m scared. But I’m going, because I know that I need help with this.
I was going to kill myself last Tuesday, I went to evening Mass and decided while I was there that I would go through with the plan I made for myself on Christmas Eve, to kill myself by going swimming in the lake in our local park (which in Canada in the middle of the winter is almost guaranteed to cause death by hypothermia). I was going to do it right after Mass, but someone stalled me by asking if I wanted a ride home, and by the time I’d put him off, Father was there asking why I hadn’t gone to communion and if I was ok.
I told him that I was fine, but he didn’t believe me. He kept talking about God’s love and mercy, and said he was worried about me. I left, after that, feeling unsure. I still wanted to do it, I wanted to die, but I kept thinking about all the people who care about me, all the people I would be hurting. Not to mention risking eternal damnation.
So I went to talk to my pastor about it - and about cutting, because I’ve been doing that for over a month now (I used to cut when I was in high school, and had stopped for six years but have started again).
And now I have to go to a counselor tomorrow, and I think I am almost more afraid of going to talk to her about this (because what if doesn’t really help me?) than I was to go through with my plan for suicide.
So anyway, I am asking for prayers. Because I am not going to kill myself, since like I said it would hurt too many people and separate me from God. And, for the same reason, I am trying to stop cutting. Since I struggle with cutting like some people struggle with pornography, and both are evil, doctrinally, for the same reasons.
So, for tomorrow evening at 6pm EST when I am at this appointment, that it will go well and she will understand and it will help me. And for the coming weeks, that I will be able to stop cutting and overcome this completely. Because I belong to God, not pain.
in Christ
wayward