Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Clara Rose This is a note. To my best friend. Just to say thank you. For saving my life. I’ve known you for just a few years, but i feel as though it’s been eternity. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried; fallen out and made up. You aren’t like everyone, but Continue Reading
By Maxine Wright what would you find inside my mind deep, deep passages you will find in the darkness of despair, would u want to delve there? Confusion, sadness, anger ‘n fear, that’s the words over ‘n over again I hear, my mind pushing away good thoughts, for laughter ‘n Continue Reading
By Eleanor Johnson I’m hurting today My insides scream Fear erupts a deep sense of foreboding Head thunders and wails Muscles tortured Panicked, pleading cries chocked into lungs Nauseating truth Empty shell of pain Longing to escape own twisted anguish Reproduced with permission, originally posted here
By Joanne Esther Vigneau How many tragedies does one have to endure? I desire to play the games of death no more. In the silence and sanctity of time, the burdens I carry weigh heavy on my mind. Piece by piece my minds been torn apart, No-one can penetrate the walls Continue Reading
By Nia Lloyd Williams My senses bristle; I feel quite sick I know that you think I’m thick My intuition screams: don’t get near It tells me all I need to hear You walk the walk and talk the talk It’s so strange that I want to balk Run away somewhere Continue Reading
By Joanne Esther Vigneau Codependent Queen I would like to share a story, about a codependent queen.. Living life just to please others, that is all she has ever been.. Always mistaken and misunderstood, She has tucked her feelings away.. She surrounds herself in chaos, because she knows no other way.. Continue Reading
By Nia Lloyd Williams My energy is low I have no get up and go Any that I’ve had Has gone and that is bad My energy wanes Each muscle complains My head is fuzzy I feel quite scuzzy Tired and low My mind is slow Exhaustion is king I’m Continue Reading
By Joanne Vigneau I am very tired and my body is very sore. My head hurts and I can`t think anymore. Where do I go now, and what am I supposed to do? What would you do if this were to happen to you? I haven’t got an answer when Continue Reading
A dear friend of mine told me
to place my life in gods hand
to have a little faith that this is all
part of his master plan
By Tom Wavre “I’m not faking being sick, I’m faking being well.” I sometimes wonder if this misconception is one of the biggest barriers to defeating the stigma around mental health. Some people seem to think we fellow sufferers use it as an excuse, or are just playing up on Continue Reading
By Ashley Phillips I spent 14 weeks in total in three different psychiatric hospitals from December 2016 after almost killing myself. I wanted to try and explain what was going on for me to my boys, aged six and ten. I wrote them this poem: The critical voice has a Continue Reading
By Sara I can’t believe that she is depressed She’s always smiling and laughing – who would have guessed? She looks all right to me, she doesn’t seem down She’s always the funny one – playing the clown. She says she can’t work – can’t get out of bed She Continue Reading