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Best Mental Health Poems

Below are the all-time best Mental Health poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mental health poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member My Mental Health
My mental health is complicated
Now euphoric, next sedated
Nightmares daily duplicated
All my friends are alienated 
Happy times? They're confiscated
Mental health is complicated 

My mental health is...

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Categories: anxiety, mental health,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bio:Closing Time,Memories



       CLOSING TIME AT THE PUB


The joy, the camaraderie, the smoke.
The great ale, my great friends in Chicago.
Old Town,...

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Categories: mental health, chicago, friendship, memory, mental
Form: Bio
Premium Member OCD Overdrive collaboration with Ink Empress

Life is not as sweet as a bowl of golden glace cherries,
nor is there a golden illuminated future for a fruitless mind.
Trembling hands and gritted...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anxiety, care, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cruel Compassion, Collaboration With the Silent One
My mind is a puzzle of cryptic metaphors.
whilst searching for my sanity,
I've become my own worst enemy.
In this cauldron of despair,
time is like sand in...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Look Back At Eighteen Months Here-The Show Is Over
A Look Back at Eighteen Months Here-The Show is Over

When your poems reside in a shoe,
like mine,
pounding the pavement to nowhere.
The onset of blisters isn't...

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Categories: change, sad, mental health,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Borderline Personality Dodoitsu
We Are All the Same
Listen to the reeds as they sway apart;
Hear them speak of lost friends.
At birth, you were cut from your bed,
Crying and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: love, mental health, relationship,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member Overcoming Desperation
Desperation, draw me not like magnets pull
But once again let saneness possess me in full
Do not ravage me like a lion upon its prey
Block not...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mental health, anxiety, depression, fear, hope,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Blessings of Silence

Belief is the nemesis of uncertainty,
in times of torment we keep faith 
in God's gift of blessings bestowed upon us.

In a world without morals
Children of summer...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy, mental health, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sipping Coffee
Line of enquiry:
“God within me is the enjoyer of the aroma
As also this dopamine boosting flavour I taste
I surrender all pleasures to the dweller of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angst, mental health, spiritual,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Silver Solitude on Storm's Edge
I emerged with a silver pen in hand,
…and a tempest raging within.
Words writhe, a serpent's coil,
…tightening their grip,
A soul adrift in a sea of 
…self-made...

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Categories: mental health, mental illness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member To Mock Butterflies
My existence seems like a timeless tragedy,
ticking away in the harmony of misophonia and me.
I've been reluctantly raised in the arms of trauma,
hiding from the...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anxiety, mental health, mental
Form: Free verse
Analysis Paralysis
When you look at your reflection in a mirror, what do you see?
I see a failure, and that failure is me.

I feel like I’m stuck...

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Categories: mental health, anxiety, care, depression, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On the Crest of a Wave
Trauma stained 
my innocence, 
before I knew 
that the sunless 
sky lost its glory
to doomed darkness,
an empathetic gaze
which roamed beneath my 
saffron skin, 
an ungodly...

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Categories: mental health, betrayal, child abuse, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Troll footle
scrolling 
      trolling

clicking
      tricking

to cheat
      deceit 

snitches
   ...

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Categories: mental health, anti bullying, emotions, mental
Form: Footle
Premium Member Fatal Kiss
Time ticks away as a new dawn strokes your splitting heart,
with your mood swings re-writing my emphatic poetical art.
Although the fear of your demons may...

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Categories: anxiety, mental health,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs