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 Darren I’m keeping my head up, I’m trying to avoid those lightning storms My tears are your tears My smile is your smile too This is my last goodbye, this is your lost embrace This is my last goodbye, this is my fall from grace But you know, memories 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
By JD On Mental Health 💚❤💚❤ When I’m high and when I’m low, sometimes my brain doesn’t know where to go. Searching for something, even a trace, I know it’s there but cannot place. A sense of peace or maybe a piece, of part of me that feels erased. Not Continue Reading
By Sara Blaylock Just like my very own anesthetic, It makes sure I don’t feel a thing. It makes sure I sleep… A lot, but unfortunately depression cannot be surgically removed. So it’s still there Waiting to bring me to my knees. Everything is still white noise and deep breaths. 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
By Sophie Ann Arching over the small town A blue sky turned grey prayers quickly spoken to the Almighty A lost beauty within the hearts of all A crying cloud dampened the moods further into the mud ground not a smiled shared within those dear until the rainbow, like clockwork, Continue Reading
By Darren And in the town where we were, its living had so little But the tears kept us strong and the time kept us weak I knew your song but had mine to make In the space between your giving, did you find time to listen? To see the Continue Reading