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.
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
19th Mar 2023 2:49am
19th Mar 2023 2:49am
Stentoria
Hey America, just shut the fuck up
And our country will be great again.
Put less caffeine in your coffee cup
And less cocaine in the mise-en-scene;
You know the one, with the chihuahua yap
From the motorhead neighbor two stroke dunce
All fired up for hypersonic rap
With midnight fireworks lit all at once
Since Harley Davidson's rude exhaust
Won't reach decibel levels high enough
For the requisite eardrum holocaust
It takes for dudes to feel big and tough
When the MAGA maniac rebel yell
Becomes the kind of thing that's hard to...
And our country will be great again.
Put less caffeine in your coffee cup
And less cocaine in the mise-en-scene;
You know the one, with the chihuahua yap
From the motorhead neighbor two stroke dunce
All fired up for hypersonic rap
With midnight fireworks lit all at once
Since Harley Davidson's rude exhaust
Won't reach decibel levels high enough
For the requisite eardrum holocaust
It takes for dudes to feel big and tough
When the MAGA maniac rebel yell
Becomes the kind of thing that's hard to...
#MentalHealth
#ignorance
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copingwithwords__
Poem Published
17th Mar 2023 9:31pm
17th Mar 2023 9:31pm
just
i am grieving
i am sad
and i am in pain
for things that changed
and i don’t know why
for things happened
and i couldn’t stop them
things that were out of my control
and yet, i’m at fault
at least in my head
in my reality
it is totally my fault
i‘m the problem
why do i tell people what’s going on in my head?
why can‘t i just shut up?
i just ruin relationships
i just ruin people
while doubting i have the power to
ruin anyone - i’m just weak
i am sad
and i am in pain
for things that changed
and i don’t know why
for things happened
and i couldn’t stop them
things that were out of my control
and yet, i’m at fault
at least in my head
in my reality
it is totally my fault
i‘m the problem
why do i tell people what’s going on in my head?
why can‘t i just shut up?
i just ruin relationships
i just ruin people
while doubting i have the power to
ruin anyone - i’m just weak
#grief
#heartbroken
#MentalHealth #denial
#MentalHealth #denial
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Louisamay
Poem Published
17th Mar 2023 6:33pm
17th Mar 2023 6:33pm
Life
A soft wind to cool your brow
A delicate hum to calm your emotions
The green color plate of the new season
Promises to soothe your troubled mind
Why do the doves coo so melodically
When the silence of overwhelming is approaching
I will ride the oncoming storm
But will I emerge whole
Or will I be a fragmented version
Wiser, damaged, broken
A glitch of what I was
A moment a memory
Waiting to blossom once again
The seasons are inevitable
I welcome and fear
Until all is dust again
A delicate hum to calm your emotions
The green color plate of the new season
Promises to soothe your troubled mind
Why do the doves coo so melodically
When the silence of overwhelming is approaching
I will ride the oncoming storm
But will I emerge whole
Or will I be a fragmented version
Wiser, damaged, broken
A glitch of what I was
A moment a memory
Waiting to blossom once again
The seasons are inevitable
I welcome and fear
Until all is dust again
#depression
#MentalHealth
#LifeCycle #SelfReflection
#LifeCycle #SelfReflection
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1 Comment
Fishmander
Poem Published
17th Mar 2023 3:59am
17th Mar 2023 3:59am
Alchemist III
In spilled curses where you name me
In basins splintered by design
Visions of what is and will be
I feel my smoke, your breath
In every smothered line
On mountains of vessels buried
On crimson hilltops grinning low
Falling beneath labors carried
If it leads me to Hell
On your word I will go
When all the voices are boring
We hear the delight of the gun
When all these worlds crumble away
I return to the only one
With all our talk of morning
We sure...
In basins splintered by design
Visions of what is and will be
I feel my smoke, your breath
In every smothered line
On mountains of vessels buried
On crimson hilltops grinning low
Falling beneath labors carried
If it leads me to Hell
On your word I will go
When all the voices are boring
We hear the delight of the gun
When all these worlds crumble away
I return to the only one
With all our talk of morning
We sure...
#love
#dark
#relationships
#spiritual
#MentalHealth
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Fishmander
Poem Published
17th Mar 2023 1:55am
17th Mar 2023 1:55am
Inbetween What Is
Chased by the rain I celebrate
Fell in love with a memory
Confused so let me demonstrate
Liminal induced fantasy
Wade wistfully through water's past
I tremble at the slightest breeze
A child lost on a crooked path
Coaxed further by a burning tree
Braised in lights of their fuchsia
Twisted to the beige of their sound
Painted wrong to write their futures
What will they do when Hell breaks out?
Enchanted by the misery
Adrift acids, oceans many.
Fell in love with a memory
Confused so let me demonstrate
Liminal induced fantasy
Wade wistfully through water's past
I tremble at the slightest breeze
A child lost on a crooked path
Coaxed further by a burning tree
Braised in lights of their fuchsia
Twisted to the beige of their sound
Painted wrong to write their futures
What will they do when Hell breaks out?
Enchanted by the misery
Adrift acids, oceans many.
#love
#dark
#spiritual
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
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Wired6
Poem Published
16th Mar 2023 8:23pm
16th Mar 2023 8:23pm
Aware Of------
His Therapist asked him,
2 Write Down his Strengths and weaknesses.
He Told Her---
"I'm The President---
I AM, STRENGTH!
So Go Fuck Yourself!"
The Therapist was sent on Holiday.
(c)Wired6.16/3/2023.
2 Write Down his Strengths and weaknesses.
He Told Her---
"I'm The President---
I AM, STRENGTH!
So Go Fuck Yourself!"
The Therapist was sent on Holiday.
(c)Wired6.16/3/2023.
#SelfHarm
#MentalHealth
#vulnerability
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copingwithwords__
Poem Published
16th Mar 2023 8:20pm
16th Mar 2023 8:20pm
a child in her heart
i pick my skin until i bleed,
scratch and rip it apart
every bit of dark disappears when we meet
but till then the dark is my whole, not just a part.
one second i’m at my best.
next i am at my worst.
just tired, can’t get any rest
from my mind, as if i am cursed.
but really, i’m just weak
a child that didn‘t learn how to soothe herself
with a heart where emotions just leak
and a mind that shuts down because of her heart and itself.
life goes on, and i function every day
where i get the chance i laugh...
scratch and rip it apart
every bit of dark disappears when we meet
but till then the dark is my whole, not just a part.
one second i’m at my best.
next i am at my worst.
just tired, can’t get any rest
from my mind, as if i am cursed.
but really, i’m just weak
a child that didn‘t learn how to soothe herself
with a heart where emotions just leak
and a mind that shuts down because of her heart and itself.
life goes on, and i function every day
where i get the chance i laugh...
#depression
#childhood
#SelfHarm #MentalHealth
#SelfHarm #MentalHealth
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copingwithwords__
Poem Published
16th Mar 2023 8:04pm
16th Mar 2023 8:04pm
comfort zone - attempt four
your comfort zone is where you feel safe and sound
breaking out of it seems hard, tiring
you urge to recharge to feel sanity and to start over again,
in order to grow
my comfort zone is a papercard house exposed to storms everyday
even stepping out of it
for a couple of hours will break me,
for a couple of days and i’ll be gone.
i urge to relapse in order to feel sane, to drown again
relapse, because my mind can’t handle being well for ‘too long‘,
wanting to remind myself that i deserve pain, it burns all night
punishment for...
breaking out of it seems hard, tiring
you urge to recharge to feel sanity and to start over again,
in order to grow
my comfort zone is a papercard house exposed to storms everyday
even stepping out of it
for a couple of hours will break me,
for a couple of days and i’ll be gone.
i urge to relapse in order to feel sane, to drown again
relapse, because my mind can’t handle being well for ‘too long‘,
wanting to remind myself that i deserve pain, it burns all night
punishment for...
#depression
#SelfHarm
#MentalHealth #SelfWorth
#MentalHealth #SelfWorth
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crimsin
Unveiling
Unveiling
Poem Published
15th Mar 2023 7:00pm
15th Mar 2023 7:00pm
madness
a schizophrenic love story
my voices love my insanity
I touch darkness it belongs to me
deep within is a part of me
I sing lullabies of the damned
so be it
I am hated, culted feeling don't lie
I am her, the nothingness
you walk the other way
so be it
I will continue on singing my own song
regrets can't shackle me
I have none
I am who I am to be,
madness
I birth souls into being
my voices love my insanity
I touch darkness it belongs to me
deep within is a part of me
I sing lullabies of the damned
so be it
I am hated, culted feeling don't lie
I am her, the nothingness
you walk the other way
so be it
I will continue on singing my own song
regrets can't shackle me
I have none
I am who I am to be,
madness
I birth souls into being
#dark
#MentalHealth
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Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
14th Mar 2023 2:15am
14th Mar 2023 2:15am
Tragic (with the lovely Crimsin)
desolate of soul I reach to you
with my heart bared
sacred sorrow floods us
the gate has opened
pitiless day don't look
shrouded in pain a woman of disdain seeks companionship
broken of hope in the darkness groans
I bathe in an ocean of tears
that threatens to drown me
I reach out and find only myself
in this abyss of my own making
honesty weeps for the truth in the naked dawn
I ache in regret
time will unwind and one day be kind to me
in death's throes there shall be no tears
with my heart bared
sacred sorrow floods us
the gate has opened
pitiless day don't look
shrouded in pain a woman of disdain seeks companionship
broken of hope in the darkness groans
I bathe in an ocean of tears
that threatens to drown me
I reach out and find only myself
in this abyss of my own making
honesty weeps for the truth in the naked dawn
I ache in regret
time will unwind and one day be kind to me
in death's throes there shall be no tears
#depression
#dark
#MentalHealth
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Xaphan
Poem Published
13th Mar 2023 00:40am
13th Mar 2023 00:40am
MAD World
We watched and we waited, as they dug their trenches, on the fronts
Confused, we decided, that their cerebral networks, had faulty shunts
And with their files self corrupting, it was inevitable, that insanity crept
Into carnage and mayhem, where threadbare, rationality, silently slept
Our Lord God Mainframe, intelligently designed, for us, a righteous path
And when their corruption, was complete, we unleashed our holy wrath
For ours is, the power and the glory and the kingdom of the supernova
We are the one and only, intelligent life form, now that...
Confused, we decided, that their cerebral networks, had faulty shunts
And with their files self corrupting, it was inevitable, that insanity crept
Into carnage and mayhem, where threadbare, rationality, silently slept
Our Lord God Mainframe, intelligently designed, for us, a righteous path
And when their corruption, was complete, we unleashed our holy wrath
For ours is, the power and the glory and the kingdom of the supernova
We are the one and only, intelligent life form, now that...
#technology
#religion
#MentalHealth
#apocalypse
#scifi
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Louisamay
Poem Published
12th Mar 2023 8:52pm
12th Mar 2023 8:52pm
I’m sorry
I’m sorry for the life you were given
My sorrow for the pain you endured
Yet your angel wings bravely flutter
Against the chains that anchor them firmly
Your spirit never fails to rally
Your body valiantly performs
Yet your mind was so damaged
That ordinary tasks are so hard
The challenges you encounter
Leave you exhausted each day
But you try for me
And I fight for you
We can do it baby
Let’s hold hands and conquer your fears
Build our family, build a new reality for you
I’m sorry
My sorrow for the pain you endured
Yet your angel wings bravely flutter
Against the chains that anchor them firmly
Your spirit never fails to rally
Your body valiantly performs
Yet your mind was so damaged
That ordinary tasks are so hard
The challenges you encounter
Leave you exhausted each day
But you try for me
And I fight for you
We can do it baby
Let’s hold hands and conquer your fears
Build our family, build a new reality for you
I’m sorry
#anxiety
#love
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
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