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.
Vamps
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:30pm
Yesterday 5:30pm
Good Things About Joe
You have a nice smile
You have a great sense of humor
You are very intelligent
You are very easy to talk to
Stop beating yourself up!
Be kind to yourself
Go for your ambitions/dreams
Start planning
Good listener
Funny
You love animals 🐻
Your aura is really calming
You are super smart!!
You are a bloody nice bloke
You are a lovely person and it has been a pleasure meeting you.
You have a great sense of humor
You are very intelligent
You are very easy to talk to
Stop beating yourself up!
Be kind to yourself
Go for your ambitions/dreams
Start planning
Good listener
Funny
You love animals 🐻
Your aura is really calming
You are super smart!!
You are a bloody nice bloke
You are a lovely person and it has been a pleasure meeting you.
#kindness
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#gratitude
#SelfWorth
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4 Comments
PeaceFlpw
Peace Flow
Peace Flow
Poem Published
Yesterday 3:39am
Yesterday 3:39am
stranger danger
when the mind and body aren't on one accord; when one's nerves are shot even as one shops in a grocery store; mind is like,"I've been here many times before" ; body's like," I want to drop to the floor...."
what is this? like my body isn't mine; and my mind goes off like a broken foggy alarm; nobody means me any actual harm; but my mind goes into an uncontrollable defense mode;
"these people either have a job to do or want food"; "these people could give two shits about you"; "these people are consumed in their own affairs as...
what is this? like my body isn't mine; and my mind goes off like a broken foggy alarm; nobody means me any actual harm; but my mind goes into an uncontrollable defense mode;
"these people either have a job to do or want food"; "these people could give two shits about you"; "these people are consumed in their own affairs as...
#MentalHealth
#myself
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3 Comments
Erotic_Goddess
Poem Published
21st Jan 2020 4:09pm
21st Jan 2020 4:09pm
You're A Sick f**k
You're a sick fuck….
Watching my moves
through the window panes.
I've spent so much of this life
hiding myself inside so you were
left beating a hollow drum.
It's been so long since I walked away
shielding myself in a crowd,
hoping you never glimpsed me alone.
Many days have passed,
and many months,
a few years
and still you do not remain dormant,
though hell is where you belong.
The voice of a murderer starved for
attention screeches through falsified names
...
Watching my moves
through the window panes.
I've spent so much of this life
hiding myself inside so you were
left beating a hollow drum.
It's been so long since I walked away
shielding myself in a crowd,
hoping you never glimpsed me alone.
Many days have passed,
and many months,
a few years
and still you do not remain dormant,
though hell is where you belong.
The voice of a murderer starved for
attention screeches through falsified names
...
#anxiety
#abuse
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
#PTSD
40 reads
13 Comments
Wh1skeySwagger
Swagger
Swagger
Poem Published
20th Jan 2020 6:23am
20th Jan 2020 6:23am
Razor's Edge
Walk a razor's edge
Between demons and delight
Don't lose your balance
Between demons and delight
Don't lose your balance
#haiku
#MentalHealth
#senryu #PTSD
#senryu #PTSD
32 reads
1 Comment
NoOneCares614
Poem Published
19th Jan 2020 7:43pm
19th Jan 2020 7:43pm
A long cold road.
I have a long road ahead. There's not much to see on this journey. There's no one to talk too. It's just step after step after step. Days, weeks,months pass and still nothing. The small sense of pride you have for what little improvements you made quickly vanishes in the guilt you have for being on this journey. See you were there before… A few times even…. And Everytime you set yourself farther back on this road. There is no end in sight. There is only the next step. And when the slience starts to break you down…. You know you will never reach the end of this road. The constant thoughts of...
#anxiety
#depression
#loneliness
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
36 reads
1 Comment
wallyroo92
Poem Published
19th Jan 2020 4:21pm
19th Jan 2020 4:21pm
Porno for a Pyro
Ever since he was little James liked flames,
The way they seemed to sway and dance and play,
And it was becoming a risky game,
‘Til one day he lit up a bale of hay.
The old family barn went up in flames,
While James’ eyes lit up with absolute joy,
Ever since then he wouldn’t be the same,
A demon had taken a hold of the boy.
As he grew older he kept conspiring,
He’d light up his place and then complain,
But James would blame it on faulty wiring,
Then he would file an insurance claim.
He was getting even more...
The way they seemed to sway and dance and play,
And it was becoming a risky game,
‘Til one day he lit up a bale of hay.
The old family barn went up in flames,
While James’ eyes lit up with absolute joy,
Ever since then he wouldn’t be the same,
A demon had taken a hold of the boy.
As he grew older he kept conspiring,
He’d light up his place and then complain,
But James would blame it on faulty wiring,
Then he would file an insurance claim.
He was getting even more...
#dark
#fire
#MentalHealth
43 reads
6 Comments
Fetchitnow
Poem Published
19th Jan 2020 10:29am
19th Jan 2020 10:29am
Black Dog Illness
In a moment of life, sweat running down my face
Bad case of shyness, silencing ones tongue from race
No sleep at nighttime, just seeing the sun rise
My senses all failing and my mind freezing over
A look in the mirror I didn’t recognise
Then it appeared as an hallucination
I heard her call for me
I had to slap myself over and over
This could just be a dream or this might just be heaven
Then it occurred to me, that I was on strong medication
The images and voices I heard that day
Were just from my imagination
...
Bad case of shyness, silencing ones tongue from race
No sleep at nighttime, just seeing the sun rise
My senses all failing and my mind freezing over
A look in the mirror I didn’t recognise
Then it appeared as an hallucination
I heard her call for me
I had to slap myself over and over
This could just be a dream or this might just be heaven
Then it occurred to me, that I was on strong medication
The images and voices I heard that day
Were just from my imagination
...
#anxiety
#depression
#hope
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
19 reads
4 Comments
lotuslover
Gypsy_Rose
Gypsy_Rose
Poem Published
19th Jan 2020 5:02am
19th Jan 2020 5:02am
Social Stigmas
All these random thoughts fighting for a space in my head~
Trying to assimilate and decipher what the voices have said.
Seems like these scattered illusions are planted by demons~
Determined to remain positive and sweeten life's tart lemons.
Expensive medications prescribed by unreliable physicians~
Never able to afford and obtain them to end up in precarious positions.
Manic delusions are the makings of unknown fantasy~
Keeping grasp of fate to build my eternal destiny.
Not going to allow my bipolar schizophrenia to define me~
Wanting and praying...
Trying to assimilate and decipher what the voices have said.
Seems like these scattered illusions are planted by demons~
Determined to remain positive and sweeten life's tart lemons.
Expensive medications prescribed by unreliable physicians~
Never able to afford and obtain them to end up in precarious positions.
Manic delusions are the makings of unknown fantasy~
Keeping grasp of fate to build my eternal destiny.
Not going to allow my bipolar schizophrenia to define me~
Wanting and praying...
#depression
#bipolar
#addiction
#MentalHealth
#PTSD
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0 Comments
samael
Poem Published
19th Jan 2020 2:34am
19th Jan 2020 2:34am
Cage the flora and fauna :i can still feel them crawling under my skin
Enshrined on a pedestal of particular stature
glint shining glimmer wroughted iron souvenir I keep as mine
coo coo a pine warbler eats seed as feathers rattle in easternly defense
is it with nesting we've grown comfortable
stick and twigs and twats and pricks
a cursed ringing in my left ear
smashing in my heart that sounds like hate hunkered in a corner
lashing out at an ever sprawling metro world
picking auburn pine needles out from our rested trousers
slashing blue sky clouds taking shape of melatonin aviaries
can I...
glint shining glimmer wroughted iron souvenir I keep as mine
coo coo a pine warbler eats seed as feathers rattle in easternly defense
is it with nesting we've grown comfortable
stick and twigs and twats and pricks
a cursed ringing in my left ear
smashing in my heart that sounds like hate hunkered in a corner
lashing out at an ever sprawling metro world
picking auburn pine needles out from our rested trousers
slashing blue sky clouds taking shape of melatonin aviaries
can I...
#dreams
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
25 reads
0 Comments
Vamps
Poem Published
18th Jan 2020 11:09pm
18th Jan 2020 11:09pm
She
She wore her heart
For all to see
Like an ever
Blooming
Wild flower
Her delicate petals
Flushed with a
Vivid and lively
Pallet
Her beauty
Created by the
Gods
A free soul
Bound only by
Her spirits imagination
An ever elusive limit
Infecting each and
Every person
That had the fortune
To witness her
With glowing
Affection
She was everything and
Everyone
The most sacred parts
Of all human spirit ...
For all to see
Like an ever
Blooming
Wild flower
Her delicate petals
Flushed with a
Vivid and lively
Pallet
Her beauty
Created by the
Gods
A free soul
Bound only by
Her spirits imagination
An ever elusive limit
Infecting each and
Every person
That had the fortune
To witness her
With glowing
Affection
She was everything and
Everyone
The most sacred parts
Of all human spirit ...
#anxiety
#depression
#teens
#illness
#MentalHealth
51 reads
6 Comments
CArpeNoctem_
Poem Published
18th Jan 2020 9:52am
18th Jan 2020 9:52am
Threatened intellect
In the midnight sun
he tried to run....
Nowhere to go
Lost, morning son.
he tried to run....
Nowhere to go
Lost, morning son.
#MentalHealth
25 reads
2 Comments
Benzy_420
Poem Published
18th Jan 2020 8:47am
18th Jan 2020 8:47am
Routing for Me
I feel like sometimes, I peak through the curtain
What's hidden to the eye, I seem to notice
I'm troubled often by concerns of paranoia and egotism
I think, therefore, I am
All I know is all I know, that is, my view is the only view I can ever have
I pilot this body, I see through my lens, but I CAN empathise
My birth name is a translation: God is salvation
My face, a combination of the two prominent idols of faith
More of one in the summer, the other in the winter
Drugs, too long spent alone, overwhelming ability to empathise: I cannot help but...
What's hidden to the eye, I seem to notice
I'm troubled often by concerns of paranoia and egotism
I think, therefore, I am
All I know is all I know, that is, my view is the only view I can ever have
I pilot this body, I see through my lens, but I CAN empathise
My birth name is a translation: God is salvation
My face, a combination of the two prominent idols of faith
More of one in the summer, the other in the winter
Drugs, too long spent alone, overwhelming ability to empathise: I cannot help but...
#anxiety
#identity
#God
#confessional
#MentalHealth
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