Tag: Depression

Moving beyond depression

Floating Through Seas of Sadness- My Mental Health Journey

Charlotte Kingsbury-Fink October 14, 2024 0 Comments
Photo by Michael Shannon on Unsplash Feeling helpless for change with the amount of time I am up against. They say that all we truly have is today- right now. Right now, I am sad. Right now, I wish I could go back in time and fix what I did during psychosis. Not possible. Photo by Hermes Rivera on Unsplash . During my bipolar mania, it was as if someone was walking and living inside my body. A...

Puzzles in the Night…

Charlotte Kingsbury-Fink October 10, 2024 0 Comments
Photo by Ryoji Iwata on Unsplash . In the nighttime hours things divide into smaller pieces that seem to make sense.Then the dreams come, and people have hidden knowledge released beyond the veil..Only to wake up to more confusion. A mind divided by nightmares cannot stand for very long..When dawn arrives, the light flickers in between crippling muscle spasms, as you cry out for even the...

There’s Always, Maybe!!! My Mental Health Journey

Charlotte Kingsbury-Fink October 9, 2024 0 Comments
Photo by Giulia Bertelli on Unsplash Trying to transition from psych ward life back into a displaced situation that feels like chaos in my mind. Don't worry, just eat another protein bar... I am very grateful to have a family that will take me in and shuffle me around. I always wondered if this day would come. Now that it’s here, I feel like a chicken with its head cut off, but anticipating a...

Another Day, but Not Another Dollar

Charlotte Kingsbury-Fink October 8, 2024 0 Comments
Photo by Ruth Gledhill on Unsplash It feels as though I am in a sort of time warp. There is only one direction to go, and one way to be, and I need to cling onto this. I need to trust in God, no matter what comes my way.  . I feel like I have lost everything and everyone. People think I am on meth when I meet them, but that is not the case. Have I really lost everything and everyone?...

Cruel Reality~~Poetry~

Charlotte Kingsbury-Fink November 21, 2023 0 Comments
Photo by Nel Mel on Unsplash-poetry ~Poetry is NOT Dead!~~Poetry is for Everyone!~~Happy Poetry!~ Photo by M.T ElGassier on Unsplash-poetry Hello, My Poetry and Writing Friends!🖤 I hope you are well! Thank you for visiting my poetry blog. I appreciate you being here! If you have ever experienced depression, you know how hopeless it can feel. When I am depressed, I think I have finally...

I Can Feel It~ When Depression Starts to Whisper

Charlotte Kingsbury-Fink November 1, 2023 0 Comments
Photo by Ed Vázquez on Unsplash-poetry ~Poetry is NOT Dead!~~Poetry is for Everyone!~~Happy Poetry!~ Photo by Hannah Xu on Unsplash-poetry Hello, My Poetry and Writing Friends! 🖤 I hope you are well! Thank you for visiting my poetry blog. I appreciate you being here!. I wrote this poem during a low. The lows make me appreciate everyday life much more after the gloom has cleared..Sometimes I...

Broken and Defeated~~Poetry~

Charlotte Kingsbury-Fink July 25, 2023 0 Comments
Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy on Unsplash-poetry ~Poetry is NOT Dead!~~Poetry is for Everyone!~~Happy Poetry!~ Image by Giacomo Zanni from Pixabay-poetry Hello, My Poetry and Writing Friends!🖤 I hope you are well! Thank you for visiting my poetry blog. I appreciate you being here!. Today's poem is about an old relationship I am (thankfully) no longer in. The memories linger still, and so I...

Breaking Down~~Poetry~

Charlotte Kingsbury-Fink January 25, 2023 0 Comments
Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash-poetry ~Poetry is NOT dead!~ ~Poetry is for everyone!~ ~Happy Poetry!~ Photo by Varun Gaba on Unsplash-poetry Breaking Down I reluctantly fell into your arms like a defeated childpowerless, depressed, and full of regrets .regrets are easier to managethan building self-worth. blaming me sets all of them freeand I am left feeling alone and unloved .drowned out by...

My Shattered Heart~~Poetry

Charlotte Kingsbury-Fink August 25, 2022 2 Comments
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash-poetry ~Poetry is NOT dead!~ ~Poetry is for everyone!~ ~Happy Poetry!~ Hello, my Poetry and Writing Friends! Hello, my poetry and writing friends! How are you? I hope you are well! Thank you for visiting my blog. I appreciate you being here! ` Today's poem is about a heart that won't hold onto love from others. ~Happy Poetry!~ Photo by Kelly Sikkema on...

I Need to Let You Go

Charlotte Kingsbury-Fink June 22, 2022 0 Comments
Hello, and I hope you are well! Today, for some reason, I woke up thinking about an old friend who ditched me. She left me during one of the most challenging times in my life. I begged for her to remain friends, but she ignored me. One day, I thought she had decided to reach out to me, and I got so excited. It was in an email- all she said was, "Hi", so I wrote back and told her how happy I was...