Tag: Depression
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To Whom Have I Become (Part 3)
Trigger warning: Mental health, suicide. Who turned out the light, I find myself in the dark. In a seedy hotel, far from home, doors are locked. I catch myself drifting in and out a state of consciousness. Is this my final moment or am I just left exhausted. I take a moment to collect myself, ... -
Survivor’s Pledge – A Free-Verse Poem
darlings, remember, the dark shapes hiding in the night friendly enemies fornicating your good nature they peek out from under your bed, creep beneath your pillow, stalk the lonely roads of your dreams and breathe new life as figures that haunt your waking world his breath may linger hot on your skin burnt like a ... -
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When It Rains, It Pours, But You Need To Keep Walking
When it rains, it pours. It’s kind of funny– I mean this May, Phoenix had a whopping total of zero inches of rain, yet I still found myself drenched the entire month. It was quite disheartening because I was never prepared. I never seemed to have brought my raincoat and I never invested in a ... -
To Whom Have I Become (Part 2)
Where were you the first time you realized there was a problem? A problem so big you couldn’t wrap your head around it? I can tell you where I was, 3,000 miles away driving away from ghosts. The first time I was 20 years old, the second 39 years old. Where was I heading, you ... -
Death Comes For Us All
walking; a tight rope road no decision can be taken to lightly, or for granted Sentences were spoken as to not offend, leaning towards one side will surely help you fall over your attempt to make peace with your kindness has only served to let everyone see weakness. Liars, people with the best intentions while ... -
The Depression Marathon
You have just achieved something so amazing. Yet, you feel nothing. The recognition and applause race through your veins. Yet, you feel as if you never broke through the ribbon at the finish line. All you want is the energy in the air to increase your heartbeat and leave you with a faint smile. Yet, ... -
Trying Times
To prosper is to live with peace In wealth or health or simply being With trying times and tribulations We’ve lost our faith in our foundations A seed of fear breeds suspicion And too much freedom breeds disillusion We think it’s time that holds us back When really it’s discipline that we ... -
Taming The Lion Of Anxiety And Depression
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and as someone who has dealt with anxiety, and depression on and off for most of my life. One of the ways that I can think of to describe it would be a foggy dream sequence that is sometimes seen in the movies where a person is trying their ... -
Adventuring Out
*Trigger warning* This story contains details with mental health The feeling as the cigarette goes into my mouth, pain and suffering go into a three-way call with addiction, and in this call, more cigarettes come out of the pocket and end up in an ashtray. I don’t smoke because I love it, but apparently, Lust ...