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.
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
3rd Mar 2025 3:17pm
3rd Mar 2025 3:17pm
The Maniquin Man
#fiction
#loneliness
#MentalHealth
#sex
#violence
133 reads
13 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
1st Mar 2025 12:22pm
1st Mar 2025 12:22pm
The Co-Ed Killer
Young Edmund Kemper would decapitate his sister's cats
Hated his mother, which led to many violent spats
He'd play out his own death in grisly roles
Murdered his grandparents at 15 years old
He honed this facade in the coming years
While his private world contained much darker ideas
After only 5 years in a state facility
He fooled them all, with politeness & civility
Between May 1972 and April 1973
Kemper murdered 8 people, You can say that's a killing spree
A claw hammer to the head and a penknife slit her throat
The murder of...
Hated his mother, which led to many violent spats
He'd play out his own death in grisly roles
Murdered his grandparents at 15 years old
He honed this facade in the coming years
While his private world contained much darker ideas
After only 5 years in a state facility
He fooled them all, with politeness & civility
Between May 1972 and April 1973
Kemper murdered 8 people, You can say that's a killing spree
A claw hammer to the head and a penknife slit her throat
The murder of...
#MentalHealth
#murder
#nonfiction
#PopCulture
#violence
135 reads
15 Comments
Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
28th Feb 2025 9:10pm
28th Feb 2025 9:10pm
some days my fears are louder than my sanity
Your silence is so loud
I hear everything it has to say
but none of it's true
it's just my fear filling in the blanks
Just because I feel like a ghost
doesn't mean I want to be one
there is nothing beautiful
about being made of glass bones
everyone thinks they can see through
like my existence is obvious
yet irrelevant
You found my haunting place
and turned the lights on
and told me my shadow
wasn't my reflection
it was just science my imagination forgot
I thought you were magic ...
I hear everything it has to say
but none of it's true
it's just my fear filling in the blanks
Just because I feel like a ghost
doesn't mean I want to be one
there is nothing beautiful
about being made of glass bones
everyone thinks they can see through
like my existence is obvious
yet irrelevant
You found my haunting place
and turned the lights on
and told me my shadow
wasn't my reflection
it was just science my imagination forgot
I thought you were magic ...
#loneliness
#MentalHealth
158 reads
5 Comments
gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
27th Feb 2025 1:53am
27th Feb 2025 1:53am
Ghostly Hallucinations
Turning black all around me,
the air had icy fingers
pinching my skin with emotional frostbite.
A shrill cry followed,
echoing in the fog
of schizophrenia’s uncertainty.
Wandering through this graveyard,
the gravestones of my past
stand silently and somewhere within.
The eyes of a ghost follow me -
laughter, hideous laughter lurks in its eyes,
then I shiver with humiliation.
With hell in my mind,
my hair stands on end,
my eyes the windows to this furnace.
Normality,
was there...
the air had icy fingers
pinching my skin with emotional frostbite.
A shrill cry followed,
echoing in the fog
of schizophrenia’s uncertainty.
Wandering through this graveyard,
the gravestones of my past
stand silently and somewhere within.
The eyes of a ghost follow me -
laughter, hideous laughter lurks in its eyes,
then I shiver with humiliation.
With hell in my mind,
my hair stands on end,
my eyes the windows to this furnace.
Normality,
was there...
#bipolar
#depression
#FeelingLost
#MentalHealth
#surreal
119 reads
2 Comments
PeaceFlpw
Peace Flow
Peace Flow
Poem Published
27th Feb 2025 00:38am
27th Feb 2025 00:38am
....
I just want to disappear....
#honesty
#MentalHealth
177 reads
wallyroo92
Poem Published
25th Feb 2025 5:21am
25th Feb 2025 5:21am
Pedal to the Metal
California - Southbound One-O-One
Pedal to the medal, enjoying the scene
The Pacific Ocean is blue and sparkling
Top down, cool breeze, living the dream
The heart beats faster as the engine roars
But at top speeds it takes a lot of nerves
There’s a thrill that hangs in the balance
As tires screech on those treacherous curves
Though there may be warning signs everywhere
The driver may ignore them with a little smug
Because no matter what others will caution or say
The excitement of velocity is like a drug
...
Pedal to the medal, enjoying the scene
The Pacific Ocean is blue and sparkling
Top down, cool breeze, living the dream
The heart beats faster as the engine roars
But at top speeds it takes a lot of nerves
There’s a thrill that hangs in the balance
As tires screech on those treacherous curves
Though there may be warning signs everywhere
The driver may ignore them with a little smug
Because no matter what others will caution or say
The excitement of velocity is like a drug
...
#family
#MentalHealth
120 reads
6 Comments
backdeckbenny
Poem Published
25th Feb 2025 1:51am
25th Feb 2025 1:51am
Losing my marbles
While sitting on the front step
It jumped out of my head
Another precious marble
Rolled down the garden bed
I bent down to retrieve it
And found some others there
I knew I'd lost my marbles
But I didn't really care
My marbles have been with me
Since I was a little lad
I played a zillion games with them
Played many with my dad
So thank you all my marbles
And the few that still remain
I will cherish all our moments
Till the end of my campaign
Had I never lost my marbles
I'd have never lived at...
It jumped out of my head
Another precious marble
Rolled down the garden bed
I bent down to retrieve it
And found some others there
I knew I'd lost my marbles
But I didn't really care
My marbles have been with me
Since I was a little lad
I played a zillion games with them
Played many with my dad
So thank you all my marbles
And the few that still remain
I will cherish all our moments
Till the end of my campaign
Had I never lost my marbles
I'd have never lived at...
#MentalHealth
82 reads
3 Comments
Gahddess_Worship
Poem Published
24th Feb 2025 11:58pm
24th Feb 2025 11:58pm
A Fresh Start, Use It! (1st Pantoum)
The holiday’s over. Now is the season of resolve, discovery and change
My heart full of hope…I’m going to make it this time. This time next year I’ll be happy
This sentiment drives for change, recurs every year at this season
A seeding time nurtured by wisdom, and spiritual reason
My heart full of hope…I’m going to make it this time. This time next year I’ll be happy
A seeding time nurtured by wisdom, and spiritual reason
Trepidation creeps in, fearing that I, once again, will lose the plot, and shut down the show
This season can be trite, cliché,...
My heart full of hope…I’m going to make it this time. This time next year I’ll be happy
This sentiment drives for change, recurs every year at this season
A seeding time nurtured by wisdom, and spiritual reason
My heart full of hope…I’m going to make it this time. This time next year I’ll be happy
A seeding time nurtured by wisdom, and spiritual reason
Trepidation creeps in, fearing that I, once again, will lose the plot, and shut down the show
This season can be trite, cliché,...
#happiness
#healing
#hope
#LifeChangingMoment
#MentalHealth
76 reads
1 Comment
LunaGreyhawk
Jenn_Leigh
Jenn_Leigh
Poem Published
24th Feb 2025 3:14am
24th Feb 2025 3:14am
Let Me Speak
at death
let me then say,
I have lived;
not well, not poorly
but that I endured;
I experienced
each and every
moment forward
from my awakening,
with eyes thrice opened;
let me shout to the world,
that my palms faced up,
accepting all of that
which could not be
accepted from me,
wether love or apathy;
let me sing that I was
become whole, undone
of sad, abandoned roots
that kept me tethered
to shame and guilt;
so, at death
let me then whisper
I set myself free, at...
let me then say,
I have lived;
not well, not poorly
but that I endured;
I experienced
each and every
moment forward
from my awakening,
with eyes thrice opened;
let me shout to the world,
that my palms faced up,
accepting all of that
which could not be
accepted from me,
wether love or apathy;
let me sing that I was
become whole, undone
of sad, abandoned roots
that kept me tethered
to shame and guilt;
so, at death
let me then whisper
I set myself free, at...
#bipolar
#healing
#MentalHealth
#PersonalGrowth
#SelfDiscovery
155 reads
6 Comments
gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
24th Feb 2025 1:55am
24th Feb 2025 1:55am
Waiting
Many await the receding of the dark,
to see the wonders of the lighted world.
Many await the death of the light,
to blindly embrace the dark.
to see the wonders of the lighted world.
Many await the death of the light,
to blindly embrace the dark.
#MentalHealth
#surreal
79 reads
2 Comments
mysteriouslady
Poem Published
23rd Feb 2025 11:21pm
23rd Feb 2025 11:21pm
Mental Mother
bedroom door flies open
shes got that look
like shes the only bitch that matters
shes offering money for all of us to leave
be gone, stay gone
come back last
$20 for the winner
why did she have kids?
only to toss us out before coffee
cocaine and breakfast?
yet prior to running out the door
she grabs you
makes you sit
at the kitchen table
the dreaded kitchen table
this is where she wants you to know shes the best
its all about her
her narcissistic...
shes got that look
like shes the only bitch that matters
shes offering money for all of us to leave
be gone, stay gone
come back last
$20 for the winner
why did she have kids?
only to toss us out before coffee
cocaine and breakfast?
yet prior to running out the door
she grabs you
makes you sit
at the kitchen table
the dreaded kitchen table
this is where she wants you to know shes the best
its all about her
her narcissistic...
#MentalHealth
168 reads
17 Comments
Xaphan
Poem Published
23rd Feb 2025 2:19pm
23rd Feb 2025 2:19pm
Autumn Crocus
When the heart is empty, the mind might focus
To find, a fiery fate, with the Autumn Crocus
Although the thought is toxic, like an acid kiss
Nothing else will matter, if not being, is bliss
A clock stops ticking, when there's a broken cog
And reality's a phantom, when it's milling fog
For if the eyes cannot see, a course, to guide
There's no way ahead, that's not death defied
If there's no aroma, when the flowers bloom
The only time that is left, is a time, too soon
For to feed on a harvest, that's poison laced
Is bitter,...
To find, a fiery fate, with the Autumn Crocus
Although the thought is toxic, like an acid kiss
Nothing else will matter, if not being, is bliss
A clock stops ticking, when there's a broken cog
And reality's a phantom, when it's milling fog
For if the eyes cannot see, a course, to guide
There's no way ahead, that's not death defied
If there's no aroma, when the flowers bloom
The only time that is left, is a time, too soon
For to feed on a harvest, that's poison laced
Is bitter,...
#dark
#death
#horror
#MentalHealth
#nature
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