I have a feeling that I’ve made myself anaemic.
The dizziness and fainting has gotten really bad lately, more frequent, the past couple of days have been a blur because I’ve felt so weak. Every minute at work the day before yesterday I felt I was going to collapse, and I’ve lost a ton of weight again without meaning to, even though I’ve been eating properly and normally…
My councellor asked me a load of questions last time, asked me do I feel my heart beating, notice it often, when I lay down can I hear my heart beat and all this stuff, then asked, do I lose a LOT of blood when I cut and is your healing slower, do you get dizzy spells do you often feel weak and on the verge of collapse?
I said yes to pretty much all of the above and she told me that she thinks my cutting may have induced anaemia, as my body can’t make more red blood cells to keep up with the amount I lose.
But to find out for sure I have to get a blood test, and to get a blood test they will ask to use the arm I don’t write with, my left, which is the one which is most cut up. Because I have a phobia of needles, probably my mum will go there to support me, because one time I kicked the nurse in the face when I had to have an injection but that’s a whole other story…
WHICH MEANS that both my mum and the nurse will see how bad my arm is. And they might send me to some place GAH. I know I can stop cutting, just not yet. Next year I’m moving out, I’m looking forward to experiencing everything I was never allowed to experience as a teenager, freedom, trust, fun. I’m going to art college, to live out my dream, and I know that when I am in that place as opposed to this one where… (well, bad things happen but I’m not writing them down here) ...that I will be able to stop cutting once and for all, I’ll be happy then.
So I don’t want to go and see ANOTHER person as well as my councellor because they’ll just mess everything up. I’ve declined to go on Prozac or anything else because I’m too scared I’ll try to OD, or become dependent on it. They might make me.
But back to the original point, anaemia. Fuck. I’ve made myself ill but I’m too scared to fix it.
Because getting help might make other things worse.
Which in turn will probably make my cutting worse which will probably make the anaemia worse. I’m quite sure that’s what it is.
