Journey Mental Illness Poems

In shadows deep, she seeks her rest,
Where pain's embrace feels like a test.
Her heart, a fortress, cold and still,
Where echoes of her anguish fill.

The girl,...

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The shifting tides of change washed over me like a tidal wave. 
It was in that moment of chaos and uncertainty that I found my...

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Within Me

Trapped within, a tempest roars,
Where demons dance and anguish pours,
In the haunted halls of my soul's estate,
Dwells a darkness deep, where love and hate...

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I feel enraged
Stuck in this cage
The Black dog beside me
The pushing down
My mask isn't working 
I manage to frown

When I'm out on a social.
I afix...

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Something is missing…
Looks about
Wonders and thinks
Doesn’t think out loud

Start from the beginning 
Back it up, slow it down 
Think for a minute 
What is wrong...

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I shaved my head
and wore a robe
the mountain pass
I found at last
grew thin alas
but fat I got
on nature's lot
her sounds were not
my thoughtless strobe
though I...

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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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A hospital stay built on medication induced hysteria.
Green coffee which bleeds into my subconscious.
Pain caressing itself into my being just to remind me I am...

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Taking my time through the struggles I face
Trying hard not to bow out in disgrace
Thinking how can I still win this race
Time keeps coming at...

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I've remembered how to be,
And recognized it though,
Before I did not dare to see,
That it had not been quite so.

It was I, and I was...

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Charcoal Sheep

Watery eyed thoughts came,
Zap! Pow!  a short circuited brain.
Inward turned burned ocular pain,
too many thoughts to restrain 
I’m a cheap sheep making my...

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In the depths of the mind's vast terrain,
Where shadows dance and thoughts abstain,
Lies a realm unseen, yet so profound,
Where mental illness's whispers resound.

Anxiety, a relentless...

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The train to nowhere just reached the platform
Further down the tunnel, there is a storm
In a month or few, it will reach its destination
'til then...

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Sometimes the road ahead looks bleak,
And every step feels like a heavy feat,
When darkness looms and sadness creeps,
And the pain inside seems endless and deep.

It's...

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These moments evermore
Please my endless core
And indulge dismal desires
In the sacred, blissful fires.

I’ll one day touch the stars
Where Libra meets Mars;
While I lay in serene...

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