Poems about Mental Health and Mental Illness
#MentalHealth
Poems written by those experiencing mental illness, mental disorders and other mental health problems. You'll also find poetry written by loved ones of sufferers. A bold and honest glimpse into the reality of mental illness.
crimsin
Unveiling
Unveiling
Poem Published
14th Mar 2025 7:59pm
14th Mar 2025 7:59pm
natural
sacred truth I feel hard
tortured soul since a child
learning to hear my soul and body so hard
misinformation, a trick of the cards
the world brandishing a weapon
looking like a cure with promises of redemption
television shines with pills carrying curses a mile deep
nature will care for you when no one else will
tortured soul since a child
learning to hear my soul and body so hard
misinformation, a trick of the cards
the world brandishing a weapon
looking like a cure with promises of redemption
television shines with pills carrying curses a mile deep
nature will care for you when no one else will
#MentalHealth
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2 Comments
thewatcher33
Poem Published
12th Mar 2025 1:45pm
12th Mar 2025 1:45pm
WHAT IS GASLIGHTING?
Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or group makes someone question their own reality, memory, or perceptions. It is often used to gain control over the victim, making them doubt their own judgment and depend on the manipulator for a sense of reality. Gaslighting can occur in relationships, workplaces, families, and even in societal or political contexts.
STRATEGIES USED IN GASLIGHTING
Gaslighters use various tactics to manipulate their victims, including:
1. Denial
Refusing to acknowledge past statements, actions, or...
STRATEGIES USED IN GASLIGHTING
Gaslighters use various tactics to manipulate their victims, including:
1. Denial
Refusing to acknowledge past statements, actions, or...
#MentalHealth
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Her
Bumped 12th Mar 2025 3:10am
29th May 2023 10:49pm
29th May 2023 10:49pm
A Treasure House of Goodies
His thoughts and memories work overtime
Stuck in the prison of his own mind
Clanging his cage of pent up rage
He spews obsessions, untruths and arrogance
As I listen
No longer intently
Sometimes with only half an ear
Using television or music in the background to drown out my sorrow
As he tells me his brain is a treasure house of goodies
He has a plan for when he’s sprung from the psych ward
Medication free
Crack binges
And sex
He asks me if I want to travel ...
Stuck in the prison of his own mind
Clanging his cage of pent up rage
He spews obsessions, untruths and arrogance
As I listen
No longer intently
Sometimes with only half an ear
Using television or music in the background to drown out my sorrow
As he tells me his brain is a treasure house of goodies
He has a plan for when he’s sprung from the psych ward
Medication free
Crack binges
And sex
He asks me if I want to travel ...
#love
#heartbroken
#drugs
#addiction
#MentalHealth
259 reads
7 Comments
Lady_Hades333
Poem Published
11th Mar 2025 6:04pm
11th Mar 2025 6:04pm
Lost & Found
Sitting at the table
Gambling with my soul
Shitty cards between my fingers
Body growing old
Length of the days begin to shrink ...
I need one of them
Because of how I think
The screams inside the darkness
Are bone shattering and shrill
This descent into the madness
Is a fucking thrill
Swimming in the endless sea
It Cuts and burns like glass on fire
Time is ticking , fleeting
Getting down to the wire
Bottles line the beach
Pieces sting like razor blades
But The shore is always out of...
Gambling with my soul
Shitty cards between my fingers
Body growing old
Length of the days begin to shrink ...
I need one of them
Because of how I think
The screams inside the darkness
Are bone shattering and shrill
This descent into the madness
Is a fucking thrill
Swimming in the endless sea
It Cuts and burns like glass on fire
Time is ticking , fleeting
Getting down to the wire
Bottles line the beach
Pieces sting like razor blades
But The shore is always out of...
#anxiety
#depression
#MentalHealth #PTSD
#MentalHealth #PTSD
58 reads
1 Comment
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
8th Mar 2025 10:39pm
8th Mar 2025 10:39pm
A Toast To Time And Self Empowering
Just stopping through on a Saturday, the Sabath Day, in my culture, and I am fasting, due in part to Ramadan, and for all Christians who are celebrating, Lent, my spiritual incantation(s), to advice you, may peace, find, you as it cradles and keep you.
I would like to wish everyone a consecrated day and it is early March, wow...time is progressing. Spring is almost upon us can you believe kids will be heading to Spring Break, some parent(s) will be ushering their child/children to collage for the first time during the incoming Spring semester.
It makes me think back to...
I would like to wish everyone a consecrated day and it is early March, wow...time is progressing. Spring is almost upon us can you believe kids will be heading to Spring Break, some parent(s) will be ushering their child/children to collage for the first time during the incoming Spring semester.
It makes me think back to...
#MentalHealth
#philosophical
#TruthOfLife
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4 Comments
Her
Poem Published
7th Mar 2025 2:14am
7th Mar 2025 2:14am
Tipping The Tables On Her Past
Numbness wallows, a welcome gift
Once a vibrant soul, a hapless shift
Love forsaken, she couldn’t get a grip
She left her mind at the door and took a decades-long trip
Chaos ensued, she sunk further beneath
Her heart unraveled and fell off her sleeve
Her shrieks turned to wails as she fell on her knees
Gray skies darkened as her life became void of peace
Blow after blow bloodied her resolve to stay sane
Until the day she declared never again!
Underneath her armor it’s the truth that remains
Five years later she’s no longer in...
Once a vibrant soul, a hapless shift
Love forsaken, she couldn’t get a grip
She left her mind at the door and took a decades-long trip
Chaos ensued, she sunk further beneath
Her heart unraveled and fell off her sleeve
Her shrieks turned to wails as she fell on her knees
Gray skies darkened as her life became void of peace
Blow after blow bloodied her resolve to stay sane
Until the day she declared never again!
Underneath her armor it’s the truth that remains
Five years later she’s no longer in...
#depression
#despair
#LifeChangingMoment
#MentalHealth
#TimeHeals
100 reads
4 Comments
gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
5th Mar 2025 6:57pm
5th Mar 2025 6:57pm
Gone
Gone into the distant thoughts of others
when I am no more than a memory.
Vanished into the clay of the earth,
gone I'll be into that distant memory.
When my voice dies with me,
gone I'll be as words in a sob story.
Gone into the imagination of others
where they recall only the best of me.
Vanished to into the nothingness,
gone I'll be into that memory.
When my hand dies with me,
gone I'll be from the pen for eternity.
when I am no more than a memory.
Vanished into the clay of the earth,
gone I'll be into that distant memory.
When my voice dies with me,
gone I'll be as words in a sob story.
Gone into the imagination of others
where they recall only the best of me.
Vanished to into the nothingness,
gone I'll be into that memory.
When my hand dies with me,
gone I'll be from the pen for eternity.
#bipolar
#depression
#MentalHealth
#PTSD
#suicide
127 reads
1 Comment
gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
4th Mar 2025 8:54pm
4th Mar 2025 8:54pm
Shipwrecked Soul
Ahoy! There she is!
In formal times, gracefully gliding across the glassy sea;
her figure so stout and proud.
On a voyage (life’s journey) so resolute, unwavering
against the coming storms (challenges)
and serpents (assholes) of the deep blue sea (the world).
Her sails swelled by the gift of wind,
carrying her body so peacefully
to a coming doom (death).
There in that moment, she was,
a silhouette
in the burning backdrop of the far off,
dusking horizon (future).
No other words to describe it.
She...
In formal times, gracefully gliding across the glassy sea;
her figure so stout and proud.
On a voyage (life’s journey) so resolute, unwavering
against the coming storms (challenges)
and serpents (assholes) of the deep blue sea (the world).
Her sails swelled by the gift of wind,
carrying her body so peacefully
to a coming doom (death).
There in that moment, she was,
a silhouette
in the burning backdrop of the far off,
dusking horizon (future).
No other words to describe it.
She...
#bipolar
#LifeCycle
#MentalHealth
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gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
4th Mar 2025 4:07pm
4th Mar 2025 4:07pm
Lantern In The Darkness
The flamelight of my hope and reality
burns within the darkness of psychosis.
Light within dark overcomes –
No matter how small the flame.
Whenever I fall asleep, darkness
slithers itself in bed alongside me
with gazing eyes and a whispery voice.
And there is a lantern within – one I hold
to this darkness that my hallucinating
eyes cannot penetrate alone.
My eyes are lamplit to the dream,
for the flame within ensouls me.
The light of my lantern pulsates,
possessing a fiery heartbeat,
pushing...
burns within the darkness of psychosis.
Light within dark overcomes –
No matter how small the flame.
Whenever I fall asleep, darkness
slithers itself in bed alongside me
with gazing eyes and a whispery voice.
And there is a lantern within – one I hold
to this darkness that my hallucinating
eyes cannot penetrate alone.
My eyes are lamplit to the dream,
for the flame within ensouls me.
The light of my lantern pulsates,
possessing a fiery heartbeat,
pushing...
#bipolar
#FeelingLost
#MentalHealth
#metaphor
#surreal
106 reads
2 Comments
Her
Poem Published
4th Mar 2025 11:03am
4th Mar 2025 11:03am
Sleepless Nights and Lost Fights
I don’t go quietly into the good night
I fall asleep within seconds
And wake up within a couple hours
Out of breath
My skin hot and damp
With thoughts of you running rampant through my mind
I don’t fall asleep again so easily
The blankets a hinderance
I can’t have anything touch my skin
I only want you touching me
I shouldn’t want you
Not you, not ever again
But you still see into my soul
When he messages me in the middle of the night
I should say no
But it’s the only way to vanquish you
The...
I fall asleep within seconds
And wake up within a couple hours
Out of breath
My skin hot and damp
With thoughts of you running rampant through my mind
I don’t fall asleep again so easily
The blankets a hinderance
I can’t have anything touch my skin
I only want you touching me
I shouldn’t want you
Not you, not ever again
But you still see into my soul
When he messages me in the middle of the night
I should say no
But it’s the only way to vanquish you
The...
#FirstLove
#MentalHealth
#PTSD
133 reads
12 Comments
eroseternal
Tim Eros
Tim Eros
Poem Published
4th Mar 2025 1:00am
4th Mar 2025 1:00am
Sensuous Me - Jaded
#children
#depression
#MentalHealth
65 reads
5 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
3rd Mar 2025 3:17pm
3rd Mar 2025 3:17pm
The Maniquin Man
#fiction
#loneliness
#MentalHealth
#sex
#violence
115 reads
13 Comments
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