Chapter 30: Julie

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I'm just going to fucking do it. I can't deal with this anymore, I'm leaving and I'm not turning back. I grabbed the rope and tied it to the curtain rod, it looked stable enough. Now there was a noose in front of me, and I hung it around my neck. It gave me flashbacks... Flashbacks to another awful time when my father died...

When my father died, my mental health went to complete crap. I became severely depressed, and I just couldn't handle the basics of life anymore. Hygiene exhausted me, but I kept needing to completely over-do it, to the point of bleeding. That wasn't the only form of self-harm. Insulting myself, refusing to eat, I was just killing myself... Everything negative happening to me now was the same as then.

I even tried to commit suicide with an OD. I failed. Maybe it was for the best, maybe for the worst. I just woke up in hospital to see my mother and Kelly asleep, mother with makeup running down her face from crying and Nick staring at me, spacing out. I failed then, and got better with therapy and mother's and Martin's and my sibling's support, and now here I was again. History is repeating itself, in every single way.

Wouldn't that mean things get better though?

Even if it did, I can't handle any more, I am at my limit. I can't take this anymore... I can't handle the self-hatred...

I jumped, and it was painful on my neck. I started choking and immediately regretting my decision, but it was done. I couldn't go back...

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