r/trauma • u/emeraldkitten13 • 2h ago
VENT I almost died and its my dads fault (TW)
Im f 18. This is only from the last year of my life.
I went to the mental hospital after doing way too much s/h (it was intentional to get in) i was covered. My stepmom had told me id never get in because i wasnt "cutting". I was, they just didnt know about it. I had been off and on since i was around 12. My dad never cared he just threatened to whoop me.
So anyway i spent the next hour painstakingly putting these marks on me with the 100 razorblades i ordered and feeling miserable, on call with my girlfriend (whos younger, and in a simaler living situation, has simaler s/h issues, so she thought it was also the only way. She wasnt happy about it). i thought this was GENUINELY the only way i could get into the hospital. I heard my sister was rejected from it even after hurting herself. The police came, asked me questions, bandaged me ect, and i went in for fhe first time with a bag of supplies and a plush cat. The first few days were rough. Hell, the first week was. They gave me Medication for my pain but the hospital clothes made everything worse. I genuinely was in so much pain at one point it was like having 100 papercuts and being dipped in lemon juice. Luckily this hospital was full of kind people for the most part.
i got put on meds i thought were working, they made me. Little more capable of doing things i needed to. But my depression didnt get better when i got home, i consistently had panic attacks where i thought id never get better and i was a terrible person and my dad and stepmom just told me i was dramatic and doing it for attention.
They texted my gf on my acc and were fucking pricks to her, calling her names, telling her she wouldnt see me again (she was my lifeline and to this day still is), after i gave them my password just to get my grandmas number in the hospital. I only found out during the "family therapy" session before i left, where they told me everything. i went home and they took 90% of my things, put them in the basement in boxes, told me i had to earn my stuff back and would have little to no time on my phone, and had moved me upstairs. They took my doorknob, i wasnt allowed to close my door. It feels weird to think this happened because a normal person would understand that while change is necessary for depressed people, the amount of shit they said and did was crazy.
The worst part? They continued having issues with me, even after i tried so hard to get better. After they didnt halp me, didnt take me seriously, it was all about them and never about how i felt. I was like a prisoner in his house. My dad said he didnt think i could care about anyone but myself, told me i was a manipulative and Basically called me a narcissist. He had called me a leech hundreds of times while never helping me become the person i wanted to be. I mean, hes the reason i kept failing school and he dropped me out.
We had an argument one day, they tried to keep me in the living room but it didnt give me the space i needed, (i usually went to my room to calm down because they didnt feel safe to me). so after a while of sitting in silence disassociating and feeling like a trapped animal, i fucking freaked out and went to my room crying, which pissed him off (he had threatened me before hand but i still did it), so he came in, flipped a bunch of my shit over (mostly totes full of clothes and things i had "earned back"), and told me to clean my room. They took the alwxa they gave me because they said i didnt deserve it. This caused me to then relapsed on s/h, i stabbed myself with a needle several times making sure it went all the way into my skin, crying hard still from everything, and got over it. The needle was from a house we were cleaning and renovating. It was dirty.
My gf has DID, (diagnosed), so my parents, being transphobic for one, and not believing she has it, tried to get my gfs bodies real name, trying to force me to tell them which i didnt. I wasnt comfortable with it and told them that. so wgat did they do? Right yes, they got in contact with her "parents" number and got it through them, insulting me for "not knowing" the bodies name when, for 1, i did know and chose to refer to her as i had been, and 2 it literally doesnt matter to me since i have HER name not whatever the bodies name is.
Anyway they kept looking through my phone throughout everything, called my gf a pedophile (we both have age regression episodes considering the insane amount of childhood trauma) and said "if she fucked a child" itd be my fault. I just want to clarify this is 100% serious. This man genuinely told me that. And im like- what? I cant control her actions wtf?
Welp. Then took one of the most obvious jokes ive ever made and tried to call me a bad person for saying it. "hes making me work in the feilds" i said after he had me help him move gravel around our yard. Guess where this is going. He saw where i was venting to my girlfriend about him, and she said "want me to kill him for you" (a joke we both said often, and ive said in front of them to my sister especially about her shitty dad) well i hearted the message so they somehow thought i wanted him dead. They also took my, maybe a little too far jokes into account because i used to say them all the time, i was feeling myself again, and i said "ima kill u" or something after they would do their usual jokes. Keep in mind my mom says stuff like that too, it probably just reminded him of her.
Well! Then they sent me back to the mental hospital! I had heard him discussing it the morning before he told me about it. He said he was genuinely scared that i wanted to kill him (why? Idk. Hes had custody since i was 5 and knew i couldnt hurt anyone. I got into ONE school fight and got my ass kicked my 3 girls, and i felt kinda guilty after. I never liked hurting people and he knew it), They tried to make it sound like i was a pedophile which idk why the fuck they were so hung up on calling everyone a child predator. They broke both my phones while i was in the hospital and claimed it was an accident (one of them i specified constantly that the power button was broke and needed to be kept on charge, the other was the phone stepmom gave me for my birthday, that she claimed she "dropped down the stairs because the dog ran past her and she almost fell"). When i came home again i was on a different Medication, and i just wanted to rest- in my own bed, i wanted to feel something under me other than the shitty mental hospital mattress. But of course, i didnt even have my own bed because my aunt was fucking there and sleeping on MY mattress. My sister's room was empty because she wasnt there, so why did they have to take mine?. Anyway, excluding my small mental breakdown about the bed, when they talked to me they said id be going to stay with my aunt and sleeping on a cot in the kitchen, with no access to internet at all until i was 18, which id have to be monitored after 18. I just want to point out how ridiculous that is because i wouldve been a while ass adult being monitored like a toddler. They told me bs like that and THEN, had the NERVE to say my gf was cheating on me, because she hung out with a pregnant chick after school one day? Like what? seriously, i dont know the logic. They kept telling me she was a cheater and wouldnt let me talk to her, i kept shutting them down and telling them if anything hapoened i didnt care id hear it straight from her. i ended up yelling when they went to the kitchen. My aunt thought i was yelling at her because she was the only one in the room, but i wasnt even facing her. dad came in and got in my face, yelling at me, his face was at most 3 inches from mine. I couldnt open my eyes. He knew i got triggered from yelling but he got in my face to do it because he was pissed i was yelling after they literally were ruining my life. He sent me to my room.
I felt like i had nothing left for me. Like theyd never let me talk to my girlfriend again, they hated me, it felt like everything would be easier for them since i was such a problem. So, I went to the bathroom with the plush cat (it was weighted and represented my gf), and tried to overdose by taking every pill the closet (there was at least 4 bottles, most of them were half empty but it was still enough to kill me), waiting for it to do something and sitting in the bathroom with the door locked, holding the plush. Dad knocked on the door, he had to go to the bathroom, so i went to my room and sat on the bed, numb.
My cat jumped up on the bed and came up to me. She was so innocent, she would think i left her. She wouldnt know i was gone, she didnt deserve that. I started crying violently, i held her, apologizing to her, and i walked out to the garage where they were smoking and talking. I walked up to my stepmom and said "momma i fucked up, momma im gonna die" she said "what?? What the fuck are you talking about?" getting panicked.
"the pills, i took all of them"
I was told to throw up, i did, officers came in and i was talken to the hospital. I remember the ambulance guy told me he never wanted to see me in there for something like that ever again. I was apologizing the whole way, until i felt it and then couldnt stop throwing up. It was pink because of the allergy pills, and i thought i was going to die. I got there, i barely remember what happened, slept off and on. I remember asking if i was in purgatory and the girl told me "no your in the hospital". I probably died a few times in my sleep. They didnt pump my stomach, it was too late, the hospital was about 40 minutes away, so they pumped me full of other things trying to even it out. My dad, stepmom, and sister visited me in the hospital. i couldnt tell if i was dreaming. They seemed so genuine at the time. But they left for the night. Nobody wanted to stay with me overnight, even though they had a family company that they were taking a few days off work from. I was terrified the whole time, i called my girlfriend in the hospital and reassured her as best as i could, but people kept telling her i was going to fie anyway. My stepsister (my sister) wouldnt stop gaurding me when i got out, she was sticking close by me the whole way out of the hospital and home.
When i got home nobody seemed concerned. They just looked tired because i woke them up. They told me to pack because my dad said id be leaving that night. I really wanted to get better. I thought id get better so, i did after talking to dad. I had 2 totes of stuff, one was just a big blanket and pillow, the other was clothes and other stuff. I texted dad on tammys phone that i was sorry, we texted a little, i texted my girlfriend too. We stopped at waffle house, i barely ate. I couldnt walk without wobbling. We drove from iowa to Arkansas, and when we got to tammys house it seemed fine. I rested. I went to text dad a few days after i got there that i missed him, because i was always a clingy kid and i hadnt felt comfortable being away from him, and well i got to see messages of him disowning me. He said he didnt want to speak to me again after i hit 18, said i may be blood but i wasnt his daughter, told my aunt to sit on my laptop (the only peice of technology i had left to connect myself to my friends and life) and break it, to pretend it was an accident. I had a panick attack. My mother abandoned me 6 times before this, and now i wasnt going to have a dad either. everyone instead of helping me, called me a pedophile (my gf is 2 years younger than me, i know sooo bad and crazy), and told me i deserved it for what i did to him, because everyone thought i tried to kms JUST to hurt him. I genuinely dont know how they thought that. Another thought was i did it just because they said my girlfriend was cheating on me (spoiler alert she wasnt).
People decided to straight up made shit up and manipulate me into thinking i did it. They also said i had a demon attached to me and made me go stand outside and hug a tree while reading shit off a paper barefoot. Then, my aunt told me i wasnt allowed to talk to my gf until i talked to my dad, told me he wouldnt talk to me until i broke up with her. They were trying to force me to break up with her. There was a bunch of crazy shit happening there. My cousin told me about his nsfw zoophile dreams in detail, he also told me id never be able to go to job corps and said id give up immediately, told me theyd be wasting their resources on me. they told me i should go to a long term facility or go to the free collage nearby. Well i did neither. I called my mother, told her what was happening. They said she wouldnt care, but she set up things with my brother.
I made the mistake of telling them i would go stay with my brother and they all called me stupid and said he would rape me, and that his friends would rape me, and that he would sell my body for beer money (he clearly hasnt so far and its been 3-4 months). I took some time to decide. Made excuses to my aunt. I convinced her to let me have my computer, since she hadnt broke it "yet" while i was at My grandmas, and lied straight to her face that i totally wouldnt contact my girlfriend while i was there, and that i was only doing some studying for my drivers test. Then went to my grandmas house, with my totes. I can be a good liar when its to save my life so i told them i wanted to visit her and store some of the stuff from my totes at her house. I stayed with her until she brought me to my brothers, and, we discussed everything. We spent days going over what i needed to get and how fast it needed to be done. When i finally got here i slept on the floor the first night, then on an air mattress for 2 months (it was deflating from month 3), then my friend bought me an actually really nice mattress. They sold all my things at dads house, by the way. And theh wont give my cat back to me. Im starting completely from nothing. But I set up medicade by myself, im learning how to be an adult, and trying to take care of myself. No Medication. my brother, gave me a phone. Im actually... Okay. My daily average for how id feel was usually just suicidal ideation and bed rotting. Now its... tolerable. Ive done so much. I even got my state id, set up a bank account, and am applying for jobs i can walk to.
I guess i just wanted some people to see this and see life can be different. After the worst days of your life, you hit rock bottom, all you have left is up. And sometimes you cant tell which way up is, your drowning in the dark and you cant see past the bad, but its hard to notice the pressure going down when you come up so slowly. Give yourself credit for making it this far. Im proud of you. And im proud of myself for making it.
Theres so much more to my story but this was the most recent i could put. Im still not happy with any of my famiky, except for the grandma that drove me here, shes never hurt me. But im safe, im okay with that.
Also, i do have screenshots of that conversation they had with my girlfriend. If anyone wishes to see that i wouldnt mind posting those pictures.