Drugs against pain II

I have these empty holes in my body caused by missing love, support and security in my childhood.

Sometimes I don‘t feel the holes …

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… but sometimes they terribly hurt.

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The emptiness comes as a big loud frightening wave.

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To not feel this, I stiff my holes.

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With sweets …

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… that leaves the holes immediately.

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With your hugs I yearn for …

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… which don‘t come back.

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This made me to a drug addict. Addicted to feel love, to feel what you used to make me feel.

But i don‘t want this anymore.

So I talked to my therapist and found out what else can stuff my holes.

Being in nature.

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Doing art.

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Moving my body.

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My holes will never disappear. They’re part of my physiology. Like someone else misses a finger or kidney.

Art, nature, sweets, sports and human relationships became to my proteses.

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But what ever i do, in the end of the day i come home, exhausted, and my holes start to hurt again.

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Once my therapist asked me:

„Why don’t you try to stand the feeling of emptiness?“

„It‘s too hurtful“, I answered.

To be continued …