Popular Poems About Mental Health
#MentalHealth
Popular poems about mental health. Poems are listed in order of their popularity this month.
Trapped
A horrible start in life
yet I still had hope
Now im an adult
Who can't find a way to cope
Every minute of every day
I seem to fall apart
progress doesnt matter
I end up right back at the start
I care then I don't care
I try then i quit
As a child I dreamed of more in life
But it feels like this is it
Cant get my mind together
So I'm stuck within this loop
Hard to make a choice
When you're guided by a group
A crowd of voices in my head
Fighting to be heard
Trying...
yet I still had hope
Now im an adult
Who can't find a way to cope
Every minute of every day
I seem to fall apart
progress doesnt matter
I end up right back at the start
I care then I don't care
I try then i quit
As a child I dreamed of more in life
But it feels like this is it
Cant get my mind together
So I'm stuck within this loop
Hard to make a choice
When you're guided by a group
A crowd of voices in my head
Fighting to be heard
Trying...
#FeelingLost
#identity
#MentalHealth #SelfReflection
#MentalHealth #SelfReflection
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So You Think You're A Stud
#anxiety
#men
#MentalHealth
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20 Comments
Anxious Poetics
Spun of sugared fables and salted truths
I can easily fall prey to Anxiety's
penitent thoughts.
Watching monochrome yesterday's
and the million tomorrow's
that already haunt.
Feeding Melancholy laughter and smiles
in avoidance of cursed uncertainty
to be Apathy's pitiful child.
Becoming Happy's pretty 'lil liar
while living on stale breaths of courage
'til the taut corset of butterflies flee.
I can easily fall prey to Anxiety's
penitent thoughts.
Watching monochrome yesterday's
and the million tomorrow's
that already haunt.
Feeding Melancholy laughter and smiles
in avoidance of cursed uncertainty
to be Apathy's pitiful child.
Becoming Happy's pretty 'lil liar
while living on stale breaths of courage
'til the taut corset of butterflies flee.
#anxiety
#courage
#MentalHealth
#FeelingTrapped
#metaphor
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12 Comments
The Hate in the Darkness
When did I make this transition to a hater?
Dont know if I ever stopped to notice it before
But its clearly there lurking around in my mind
When I hear inspirational stories or read uplifting material
I feel animosity bubble up, like you would with a braggart
As if they're throwing it in my face how great their life is
Or how far they've come in their journey of betterment
Its like, yea fucking great for you. Im so happy for you
The power of positivity. The payoff of perseverence. ...
Dont know if I ever stopped to notice it before
But its clearly there lurking around in my mind
When I hear inspirational stories or read uplifting material
I feel animosity bubble up, like you would with a braggart
As if they're throwing it in my face how great their life is
Or how far they've come in their journey of betterment
Its like, yea fucking great for you. Im so happy for you
The power of positivity. The payoff of perseverence. ...
#confessional
#MentalHealth
#myself #secrets
#myself #secrets
91 reads
22 Comments
White Ink
The poem unwritten
has me smitten.
Curious of what it would say
on a day like today.
When I am at my worst
and the first
thing on my mind upon waking
is taking
on more hours of sleep.
I keep
dozing off between thoughts.
I have been caught
and cradled by depression.
Tears gather as my expression
because I cannot speak.
I am too weak
to pick up a pen
and write again.
Inspiration has not bitten,
leaving the poem unwritten.
has me smitten.
Curious of what it would say
on a day like today.
When I am at my worst
and the first
thing on my mind upon waking
is taking
on more hours of sleep.
I keep
dozing off between thoughts.
I have been caught
and cradled by depression.
Tears gather as my expression
because I cannot speak.
I am too weak
to pick up a pen
and write again.
Inspiration has not bitten,
leaving the poem unwritten.
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
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12 Comments
Metamorphosis
Maybe I don’t hate myself anymore…
I used to be consumed
By a deep self-loathing
But I’m learning now
How to be self-forgiving
I used to be burdened
By traumatic memories
But the memories are fading
And being replaced
With notions of fortitude
With newfound grace
Growing in self-love
Growing in strength
No longer disturbed
By tragic past times
I have finally returned
To my rhythm and rhyme
I used to be consumed
By a deep self-loathing
But I’m learning now
How to be self-forgiving
I used to be burdened
By traumatic memories
But the memories are fading
And being replaced
With notions of fortitude
With newfound grace
Growing in self-love
Growing in strength
No longer disturbed
By tragic past times
I have finally returned
To my rhythm and rhyme
#MentalHealth
#NaPoWriMo2024
#PersonalGrowth
#PTSD
#learning
71 reads
14 Comments
letter to myself
Let's be honest
I'm really fucking proud of you
I know we've been walking
that edge lately
between coming and going
between setting life on fire
and trying to smother the sparks
that are already in motion
We're constantly surrounded
by stoners and alcoholics
and the occasional meth addict
but you never let it
get inside your head
you never slip
you smile
play nice
lock your housemate's patio door
at night when he passes out
with the screen wide open
We could get stoned...
I'm really fucking proud of you
I know we've been walking
that edge lately
between coming and going
between setting life on fire
and trying to smother the sparks
that are already in motion
We're constantly surrounded
by stoners and alcoholics
and the occasional meth addict
but you never let it
get inside your head
you never slip
you smile
play nice
lock your housemate's patio door
at night when he passes out
with the screen wide open
We could get stoned...
#addiction
#grief
#MentalHealth
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7 Comments
Death of Connections (Depressive Episode Edition)
Wandering the path again,
retracing my steps, alone this time;
I’m counting the bodies
laying just where I left them
death came quickly for these,
my dysfunction, stalking
and insatiable
one taste of their salt,
their steadfastness and
it swallowed them without chewing
sometimes I still revel
in the bitterness
retracing my steps, alone this time;
I’m counting the bodies
laying just where I left them
death came quickly for these,
my dysfunction, stalking
and insatiable
one taste of their salt,
their steadfastness and
it swallowed them without chewing
sometimes I still revel
in the bitterness
#bipolar
#depression
#friendship #MentalHealth
#friendship #MentalHealth
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numbered days
Nursing home
smells like pee
and a mass grave
of not yet dead corpses
barely muted with bleach
Day 1 visit
he doesn't talk much
just asks for another cup
of ice cubes
his granddaughter sneaks
him in some gummy bears
Day 2 visit
his autistic grandson
fiddles with the light switches
and runs off with the TV remote
we don't talk much
as I try to quietly usher
my son out the door
Day 3 visit
he asks about "the little fella"
like he didn't make him...
smells like pee
and a mass grave
of not yet dead corpses
barely muted with bleach
Day 1 visit
he doesn't talk much
just asks for another cup
of ice cubes
his granddaughter sneaks
him in some gummy bears
Day 2 visit
his autistic grandson
fiddles with the light switches
and runs off with the TV remote
we don't talk much
as I try to quietly usher
my son out the door
Day 3 visit
he asks about "the little fella"
like he didn't make him...
#death
#family
#MentalHealth
60 reads
3 Comments
Condemned
hanging around
like a
condemnèd man
waiting on
that noose
under this
black hood
my heart
is thumping
tho i'm
hardly breathing
oh silence
take me
home
end all
the torture
of life
bury each
painful memory
just release
everything
please
no more
enough
has been
done here
time
to let
it go
like a
condemnèd man
waiting on
that noose
under this
black hood
my heart
is thumping
tho i'm
hardly breathing
oh silence
take me
home
end all
the torture
of life
bury each
painful memory
just release
everything
please
no more
enough
has been
done here
time
to let
it go
#MentalHealth
#NaPoWriMo2024
#SelfWorth
56 reads
11 Comments
Mausoleum Style Mind
tail spin life
spiralling
into darkness
sinking feelings
bite down
securing a
tighter grip
guilt crawls
over self
mausoleum
style mind
sadness
weaved tightly
totally bound
to it
acratched deeper
onto skin
plumetting trust
never recovered
pussling imagination
drowning me
ponder all
shades vlack
powerful expression
tearing inside
ripping out
reason for living
nothingness resides
guest like
but altogether ...
spiralling
into darkness
sinking feelings
bite down
securing a
tighter grip
guilt crawls
over self
mausoleum
style mind
sadness
weaved tightly
totally bound
to it
acratched deeper
onto skin
plumetting trust
never recovered
pussling imagination
drowning me
ponder all
shades vlack
powerful expression
tearing inside
ripping out
reason for living
nothingness resides
guest like
but altogether ...
#depression
#MentalHealth
#NaPoWriMo2024
69 reads
8 Comments
How To Disappear Completely
Darkness breathes
Like a living thing
Thrumming rib bones
Exhaling smoke
And I can smell your
Breath for days
It’s getting harder
Just to breath
I am stagnant in stale air
Visiting my hollow stare
Upon a world of pain
Of predictable delusions
I dilute my presence
As my pupils dilate
Into distant dimensions
I can’t look away
I fade
Into the shadows
And d i s a p p e a r . . .
Like a living thing
Thrumming rib bones
Exhaling smoke
And I can smell your
Breath for days
It’s getting harder
Just to breath
I am stagnant in stale air
Visiting my hollow stare
Upon a world of pain
Of predictable delusions
I dilute my presence
As my pupils dilate
Into distant dimensions
I can’t look away
I fade
Into the shadows
And d i s a p p e a r . . .
#abuse
#depression
#emptiness
#MentalHealth
#NaPoWriMo2024
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10 Comments
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