TRUE STORY by Jasmine Marshall

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i went to the gym the other day and got hit on by a man over twice my age he asked me about my...

Are You Ok? by Alex K.

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Are you taking your meds? Are you right in the head? Are you doing ok? Am I behind on pills today? You seem manic More like you can’t stand...

Untitled by Anthony Diliberti

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I’ll sit here in this desperate chair thinking tainted thoughts. I’ll cultivate anger and contempt for all that has been lost. My mind is...

The Chant of the Psychiatrist by Sheldon Carruthers

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A voice echoes in my mind, I need to rehabilitate mankind, I need to contain the schizophrenic, with drugs powerful and eugenic

Self-Care For Dummies by Jill M. Talbot

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Seek comfort where you can, even if it's in a dumpster Have someone explain it to you like you're a toddler Read more on ways you...

From Maggie’s Love to IDHS Hell by Marci Webber

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Love we shared with exquisite tenderness With the Dr’s scripts has long since vanished. They say it wasn’t my responsibility Not guilty because of acute insanity. Yet they...

Virginal Autonomy by Nidhi Agrawal

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After Sylvia Plath ~ “I have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses And my history to the anaesthetist and my body...

A Blessing for Those Who Have No Choice by Carlene Hill Byron

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Peace to those who are not safe whose locked doors do not hold whose words are given no meaning but are taken for authority to smash and enter and...

Shattered by Alan Moster

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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall He shattered in pieces Then trauma ensued So we called several healers Who claimed that they knew They...

The Autistic Person Speaks Out by Richard Plowden

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I really find it such a stigma That men to me are an enigma, (That, greatly to my consternation, I just cannot make conversation.) Yes, though I call...

Scars by Marlowe Dickens

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Once I had a dream, I awoke in a Hospital bed with my family and friends all around me. My wrists were bound in bandages And they...

I Mistook Myself for a Scientific Label by Dr. Peter Gordon

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This is neither fact, nor expert advice: I am an artist, a poet, and all that may be in-between. This is neither fact, nor expert advice: Specialisms are making nonsense of sense.

Mabon Down by Valerie Moran-Clark

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It was about this crisp And with skinning wind That skies narrowed Darker with quickening clouds Vampires did all surround Shadows ever inkier grew And leapt off the page Separating me...

The Parasite Within by Rhiannon Chianese

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I claw and climb into your head, Controlling your thoughts until I am fed. With a drink or a drug, I will be seized. With a drink...

Bipolar by Shermin Lee

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If your life's been touched by mental illness Know that depression is a type of stillness A state of deep rest, if you will A time for...

25 Years of Consciousness, and They Still Haven’t Cured My Suffering by Sarah Myers

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After I went to the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness conference this weekend, I sat down with all the consciousness researchers to...

The Shadows by Hannah E

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I’ve lived a life of deep pain, sorrow and suffering. I’ve lived a life of light with the capacity to shine at every angle...

olfarms arent conscious by Chat Vanille

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olfarmed meta bank och vita viner in a stable with cold men and piss **** Back to Poetry Galley

Vultures’ Wake by Karen Marker

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1 They’d seen it all, their wings tips touching like piano keys played together – so many suicides born from the house where Nana’s china dolls sat on...

When the Lunatics Arise by Bonnie Schell

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“It is the very error of the moon. She comes more near the earth than she was wont. And makes men mad.” - Shakespeare,...

Insulin Shock Therapy by Dana Henry Martin

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I hear the music again. It’s my mother singing through the clay earth from her grave the way she sang from her bed at the asylum until they...

Psychiatry by Jenny

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Sighted through your pinhole spectacles: the mystery of consciousness; the timid eccentricity of suffering.

The Price You Pay by Anonymous

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If you have never dropped out of school for mental health reasons, you probably won’t cry tears of joy on the car ride over to...

The Light Prevailed by Diana Spore

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The primary wall stood strong and tall, until she started to chisel her way through She had been told that she would never recover -- From...

How to Be a Mad Poet by Gregory Luce

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How to Be a Mad Poet First, be mad. Then own it. Breathe in the anxiety, use it as fuel. You might have to lie down and breathe through the...