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This page is all about the stigmatized subject of mental health and all the tags it as to go along with it. Yes I have struggled and I still do, but not as bad or as much as others.

I do not go out and intentionally try to offend and if I do then I am truly sorry, I would like to think that some of these works of madness could help and even bring a smile into a dark etched face.

Some of these poems were penned at the beginning of my journey and my escape from anxiety, stress and depression. I attended a mood management group for six weeks and the guys and gals in that group helped me blossom into what you read today.

So I start off with a tribute poem that I penned for the nurse that helped me pull through it all, with her support I would not have got this far.

 

World Mental Health Day

 

When will we ever learn

when will we ever listen

could we ever return

to listen in on the lesson.

 

A lesson for the mind

for all of mankind

with hope we are inclined

not to leave behind

those with a broken mind.

 

For on this day in October

as we all grow so much older

we think for those with Bi-polar

and the others with a similar disorder.

 

And for those that do suffer

it's a long road ahead to recover

yet we can find comfort in this universe

with help and a smile from our,

Mental Health Nurse.

This was after written after my first visit to the mood management group were the topic was Anxiety, to my surprise it went down well.

 

Anxiety

 

For all those with anxiety

of which there's a vast variety

tough though it is on our sanity

the stress we can feel from society

our peers question our mentality

and sometimes question our insanity

when all we want is equality

from all corners of humanity

and when we seek help for our personality

we seek help in those from psychiatry.

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Another mood management poem which I tried to pull a lighter mood onto the awful topic of depression.

 

I Am Depressed

 

Am I Depressed when I stop and Cry
when others think I am the bad guy.
Maybe I should be getting high, as high as the sky,
why should I be the fall guy and act really shy?

Am I Depressed when I am feeling tired
or is it sleep that is best desired.
A desire to sleep too little, too much
Both can make you see Double Dutch.

Am I Depressed when I seem Angry
is it me or am I cranky?
I have no longing for Hanky Panky,
Angered at the lack of Fancy Candy.

Am I Depressed when I feel Achy
when others see me I can get Shaky.
I shake so much I can feel a Leaky,
just another way to come over Crazy.

Is it Worthless to be depressed?
Can it be Hurtful to be depressed?
Out of breath maybe I'm depressed.
I'm not Depressed... Just Uncertain.

I wrote this, not for my first book, but for a mental health competition, it was in a time that I was going through my Acrostic phase.

 

Being Schizophrenic

 

Seeing life different from others,
Children, mothers, fathers and brothers
Hallucinating sisters with wondrous hair colours.
In hearing voices that seem to mutter,
Zoning out when starting to stutter
On hearing others call you a nutter.
Paranoid about all this clutter,
Home alone trying hard not to blubber
Reading, Yea... I'm no bluffer.
Emotionally we all do suffer,
Now I'm feeling rather battered
I can't get a grip with all that matters.
A schizo am I, well I am flattered.

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