Mountain Goat wrote:
dragonsanddemons wrote:
I went to an information session last night for this program I'm looking into, and it looks like it will either be very good for me or very bad for me. On the one hand, once I'm adjusted to living in my own place and to the environment, I might be able to handle things better and do really well. On the other, all the forced social interaction and pressure to get a job (and stress from a job if I get one) may be too much for me, and I could end up back in the hospital covered in little self-inflicted cuts. And we're going to have to lie by omission in order to get me in, because they'll drop me like a hot coal if we mention anything about self-harm since they aren't set up to manage someone with that kind of issue.
Please don't cut yourself.
Don't worry, I'm not in imminent danger of doing so. I just have a history of it under extreme stress and depression, and am afraid it may happen again if this program ends up being too much for me.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"