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My Most Recent Self-harm Experience

I am writing this journal entry the next day (on the 30th). As I think about what happened yesterday, I find it quite challenging to consolidate my mental state with how I usually feel. I was so irrational and off the wall. I couldn't string together any reasonable thoughts. Looking back now, it was pretty frightening. It took me about four hours to write this, almost as long as the experience itself. I wanted to make sure I got as much detail as possible. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, August 29, 2022 What a shit day. I was doing fine for most of the day. At around 3:30, my wife came home from an outing and was very crabby. When I asked her how she was doing, she beaked off that it was just another day of her struggling to find a reason to keep living (she has a diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder). We argued a little bit about some stupid self-esteem stuff, and she went upstairs. That put me ...