Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Claudia Kelly Silently drowning hearing the voice’s festering each nerve, “Am Not Responding!”. Family encouraging incarceration of my mind all route’s through now inaccessible and still i hold the pencil, “Maybe Creativity Is My Vessel?”. Despair, senseless sadness, “In Your Arm’s May I Nestle?”, “ Please Tell Me” these Continue Reading
By Natalie And so I feel it beginning again The self loathing and endless search for pain Pain that’s real and self inflicted Pain imagined, unrestricted Pain so deep, so dark I wouldn’t wish it on another Yet aimed at me I’m willing to accept it I work hard, pretending Continue Reading
By Anonymous My most recent bout of depression has been my hardest fought in that it has been by far the longest. I can’t tell you exactly when it reared it’s ugly head or when I lost control of it and my usual coping mechanisms proved fruitless but, except for Continue Reading
In all the news coverage it is becoming more and more obvious that the truth is reducing in importance in the eyes of many. Statements such as ‘people are tired of experts’ or the hilariously unfunny ‘alternative facts’ coupled with all the fake news stories, shows that the truth is Continue Reading
By Heather I spoke to a few people before I decided to post this little (ha! Sorry) rant, and we were all in agreement so here goes! This is on a similar note to something posted the other day, about how depression is not simply being sad about something. And having Continue Reading
By Claudia Kelly I wasn’t aware if it was breakfast or time for lunch and he asked me “What Was I Scared Of?” . Now i was partially tamed evident a corpse on display determined to rage, a dungeon was this place. Week’s, day’s, they had locked me away and Continue Reading
By Claudia Kelly “Who Say’s Am Not Stable?”, “Do bear with me whilst i remove this label”, stamped on my back stating “You’re not mentally available”. “Come look me in the eye’s?”, let me transfer what i hide, what do you hideously spy?. I hurt no one except for “I”. Continue Reading