Depression is not lipstick

Depression is not treated by putting on lip stick you stand in the mirror and put on the tears snot drooling in your mouth behind the curtains awaiting to go out on stage and face an eager audience depression stings like a bee you painfully feel it you can't hide by journaling writing poetry being clinically depressed takes constant medication to control the chemical imbalance inside the brain every brain in different although everyone gets sad it's a human emotion being depressed for life is a cancer that has to be treated professionally or the consequences can be very fatal millions die every year from suicide sadly homicidal suicides no one should encourage anyone in such a state to just write a book glamorize depression this euphoric thinking results in suicide notes and suicide planning this can be a dangerous ticking time bomb without medication why all suicide notes are poetic lyrics mental health ptsd are not a greatest hit anyone I mean anyone in such a state needs to put down the lipstick put down the pen stop typing suicide notes do yourself a favor and make that call I did thirty years ago I am still taking medication in therapy and writing poetry I'm alive I survived my own suicide many are not alive to tell their story or just write poetry or publish a book don't be a deadline the greatest poets are read only after death don't make your suicide note a greatest hit on your own life save yourself save someone you love get help stay own your meds clock is a ticking notebook by: yolanda nicholsen written 2-14-2024 2:07 am. valentines day. In loving memory of Virginia Woolfe