Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Jake Cox No more Keep laughing Keep mocking me Keep pushing me You’ll see You’ll get what’s coming to you I can’t take these voices anymore I can’t take you living inside me anymore For too long now you’ve done everything you could Everything to destroy me You’ve taken Continue Reading
By Jake Cox So it’s that time of year again, Love Island is back on our screens. The people in charge of the show select people who are stereotypically ‘fit’, in every sense of the word. All the contestants are considered attractive. All the guys are well toned with six Continue Reading
By Jake Cox Over the last few days I’ve seen so much positivity come from Mental Health Awareness Week. So much love has been shown from complete strangers to those who are struggling. Whenever I see someone struggling or reaching out I have no hesitation in messaging that person because Continue Reading
By Jake Cox I thought I’d got rid of you, yet here you are again trying to force your way back to me trying to feed off my pain but I promised myself that you had gone. I try and put you in my past But you never leave, always Continue Reading
By Jake Cox Depression isn’t simply feeling sad or down, it’s waking up and all the colours around you are faded. It’s feeling like absolutely nothing yet trying to go about you daily life while carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. Your mind tells you that it Continue Reading
Writing this poem tonight comes from my own personal battle with anxiety, a battle that till this day I am still winning.
By Jake Cox As I write this, this week is mental health awareness week. For the entire week, I will be posting a poem or quote that I have written. On Friday, I will be taking part in the Messy4mind challenge to raise money for a great cause, I will Continue Reading
Suicide, a word that turns my stomach when I hear it, it’s of the biggest causes of death. Many of us experience the loss of someone to suicide.
By Jake Cox When it Hits You Sometimes, you’ll have a really good couple of days full of laughter and full of absolute joy. You think you’re finally starting to feel yourself again and then it hits you, everything starts to come back. It’s starting all over again. It hurts Continue Reading
By Jake Cox Even the Happiest of People Wow, I didn’t know they had depression. They always seemed so happy and had everything going for them. This is a common sentence we all use when someone we knew and loved has taken their own life. The happiest people, the most Continue Reading
By Jake Cox I hope that this finds someone who is having a tough time at the moment and it helps you rediscover yourself. Don’t allow the dark moments to take you over because once you rediscover the light you can take yourself back from the thoughts and feelings. Please Continue Reading
I hope this poem helps anyone who reads it to find the strength to say ENOUGH to all those voices, all those feelings and all those demons.