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Life In Rewind

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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Categories: mental illness, death, depression, drink, drug,

My Inner Voice

It startled me awake, screaming raw obscenities
Blaming me for something I did when I was five
Before bed, we reverently spoke prayerful entreaties
In the morning hours,...

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Categories: mental illness, anxiety, childhood, depression, mental

I Think I Love You, Dad

A hero to a little boy,
Smartest man in the world, so full of joy.
Big HOUSE! Big beard. Big Family! Big belly!!
“I love you son.” “I...

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Categories: mental illness, dad, death, divorce, father,

What's Wrong With Daddy

PTSD is real. And it can be challenging to work through. Inspired by a moving storyline in a show. 

"What's wrong with daddy?"
By Michelle Morris
28/08/2023

"What's...

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Categories: mental illness, anger, emotions, family, father

What Is Teamwork To You

This ones for you. John 

Cheers to the last straw! 
You drew it and smashed it.
You broke it and slashed it.
This is the end to...

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Categories: mental illness, absence, abuse, childhood, family,

Streets of Waste

Addiction takes on many disguises
You feel left alone with your own vices
Yet, you don’t think there is a problem
Which is the problem you can’t see
Once...

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Categories: mental illness, addiction, dad, dark, drug,

LBD - Lewy Body Dementia

I didn't know you ...
not many people did,
phantom of a wakeless world,
the bastard son of mental decay ...
not even a name until recently,
but you existed...

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Categories: mental illness, analogy, death, deep, father,

One Price of Peace

I have been crying today thinking of the young man, aged 23 locked up,in a prison remand cell awaiting assessment by the,Mental Health Authorities. ...

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Categories: mental illness, military, sorrow,

Lonely Loser

Awaken to remain asleep, Leaving to stay
Standing to take a seat, Laying flat on the ground 
just to keep on my feet. I am such...

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Categories: mental illness,

Mixed Mind

Sweating rivers as it pours down my face, frantic, nervous, alone I wait..
Waiting for what...What is not worth waiting for, it's already too late
Promises, promises...

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Categories: mental illness, cry, dark, deep, mental

Impressions Imperfect

Reflections are divergent 
images composite
negatives of dreams 
an alternate stream. 

Calculations of precise reality reflected.
diverge and coalesce? In memories 
Stacked as photographs fade…

Reflections are divergent...

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Categories: mental illness, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,

Wilderness

Pt I: Pilgrimage
1991

he’d pick ‘his’ path up as it fell
between the dunes toward the wood
and as the trees knew him so well
they’d all bow down...

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Categories: mental illness, faith, family, feelings, loneliness,

A Letter From An Alzheimers Victim To His Son

This is a place where confusion found a home
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Categories: mental illness, caregiving, confusion, father, mental

We Dream of Rain Iii

We dream of rain... 
And the mystery of the gun
We bold hold and driven apart 
Kill the king when lovers depart
We dream of rain and...

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Categories: mental illness, adventure, allah, allegory, angst,

We Dream of Rain I

We dream of rain 
in a dry season 
under the setting sun
We harvest bitter grains, 
Embittered flesh.
Under a tyrannical son, 
we dream of rain in...

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Categories: mental illness, adventure, age, allegory, anger,