Lonely Mental Illness Poems

They say a lifetime is a year
But I've lived through may seasons
Winters so harsh and lonely
That I can not breath.
Pursued by shards of ice at...

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On that July day of confusion and discord,
I entered the women's psychiatric ward.
A place I'd been in before,
receiving a calming shot in my buttocks
on the...

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By Chad Carlson

Today I looked at my life in rewind
Found the good in mostly bad times
Smiled a lot and even laughed a little
Until I got...

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Pain settles in quite instantly your senses 
are totally unprepared for this graveness
the notion to sleep sets in like an energetic 
twilight phase the injury...

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Broken sunshine falls on my face 
As I stand here in this lonely place 
But in this brokenness, 
I see The strength and resilience inside...

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My body is here, yet I'm not
My thoughts are lost in a distant thought
To a place that's dark and lonely
Where I'm safe from the world's...

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				OLD MYSIE
	“As crazy as Old Mysie” my grandma used to say.

Land company made promises, too good to be true,
To fisherfolk from Isle of Skye, it...

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I’m trying to glare at people who pass by.

My face isn’t actually glaring though.

My face is soft and droopy.

And sad and bleary.

I’m rocking back and...

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Though they were so few,
For rest of life I shall rue.
Remembering just
How I matter less each day,
Life sweeps memories away....

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I knew a man once
who fell head first
into a vat of being

- so poor, so poor
- so poor was he

surviving solely 
on food and drink
the...

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A voice whispers inside my head
Thoughts of love feel me with dread
Don't let anyone near
Hold no one dear
They only bring a tear
Walking away
Never to stay
Staying...

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Funny Here and There Days

Some days i don't know what's wrong or right
What to think or what to do
I haven't got a blooming clue !

Chasing...

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I sit in a full room, no one knows I am there, 
stuck in a corner, the place I have chosen, 
away from all focus...

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No man is an island they say
Still, amidst this crowd and noise I feel lonely
I badly want someone to talk to 
But words don’t come...

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I have borderline
I have bipolar
I have PTSD
I have anxiety
I have scars

I'm not abusive
I'm not manipulative
I'm not cold
I'm not crazy
I'm not attention seeking

I'm hurt
I'm sad 
i'm...

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