Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Dean Irwin It’s so quiet around me Yet so loud inside Thought going out would help But just walked and cried. Trying to avoid people As I don’t want to converse, Cos some things they say Just make it worse. Like “look what you’ve got How can you be Continue Reading
By Darren Vincent Graham As I sit in this hole, Surrounded by the world. I hear people say, Stop being a girl. That’s just the way, We look at mental health. Like a borrowed book, Just sat on your shelf. You’ll never know the story, If you don’t turn the page. Continue Reading
By Emma Kennedy I always felt different, like I didn’t belong, and never understood others completely. Nothing much has changed. I’m 37 years young, and learning more about me and the world everyday. Facing my depression, anxiety and alcoholism Since realising I had depression (aged 16), social anxiety (aged 21), and that those two Continue Reading
By Susan McKinstery The process of recovery, revival, rehabilitation Of being yourself again Possesses a quality no one tells you about There is no cataclysmic event Through which you are restored Rather it is the gradual clearing of a fog And the big secret? You are often the last to know Continue Reading
By Melissa I’m the prey to my depression, living through this hell. I feel you hunting me and I’m not doing very well. I feel your eyes burning into me as your black shadow engulfs me. I’m captured and you’ve locked me in the prison called my mind, circling around Continue Reading
By Laura Smith For around 12 years (since I was about 13) I’ve suffered poor mental health. I was told by my mum to seek help, though it was met with the standard teenage tantrum and denial. Life went on and I bumbled through, eventually becoming a head chef at Continue Reading
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