Memories During Psychosis, While Hospitalized

Photo by Leeloo The First: . I used to fear getting forced injections at the psych ward, until they no longer scared me. They forcefully injected me 3 times during my last visit, and then they gave up. . One night, after yelling at the staff, I started asking for the forced injections. A huge security guard came up to me, and I asked if I would be injected. Instead, he handed me a journal to...

Life is Always Strange, but God is Good Through it All- My Mental Health Journey

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Between the two dimensions, hovering over reality and dreamland. When dreams conflict with the daytime hours, and don't seem just like dreams anymore... Image by eommina from Pixabay I try to find my grounding point. I pray desperate prayers to my Abba, Father, In Jesus' name, by the power of the Holy Spirit. . Even here, He will not leave His child. God does...

Floating Through Seas of Sadness- My Mental Health Journey

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…

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...

Tying, But Not Very Hard~~Poetry~

~Poetry is NOT Dead!~~Poetry is for Everyone!~~Happy Poetry!~ Photo by Katie Moum 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! This poem gave me a sense of dread when I read it again. I hate the feeling of all eyes being on me, even though there are almost no eyes to begin with. I can hide...

You Don’t Even Know~~Poetry~

Photo by Julia Caesar on Unsplash-poetry ~Poetry is NOT Dead!~~Poetry is for Everyone!~~Happy Poetry!~ Photo by Nick Nice 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 am so glad that I don't feel the way I felt whenever I wrote this poem. The pain is lessening. The bonds have burst, and I...

I Can Feel It~ When Depression Starts to Whisper

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...

I Won’t Follow You~~Poetry~

Photo by Kai Pilger on Unsplash-poetry ~Poetry is NOT Dead!~~Poetry is for Everyone!~~Happy Poetry!~ Photo by Karsten Winegeart 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! .Even though kindness is not always appreciated, it's never wasted. There are mean people everywhere who can't figure...

Metamorphosis~~Poetry~

Photo by HÃ¥kon Grimstad on Unsplash-poetry ~Poetry is NOT Dead!~~Poetry is for Everyone!~~Happy Poetry!~ Photo by Alfred Schrock on Unsplash-poetry Metamorphosis I never saw it happenI waited every nightinstead, I felt disasterthe world had gone madI tried to catch the spinningfrom entering my mindinstead, I crossed my eyes againand prayed that I was dreamingthe voices yelled into the pastmy...

Uncomfortable~~Poetry~

Image by ðŸŒž Myriam 🌞 Thank you for the likes from Pixabay -poetry ~Poetry is NOT Dead!~~Poetry is for Everyone!~~Happy Poetry!~ Image by mohamed_hassan from Pixabay -poetry Uncomfortable uncomfortablehug myselfface contortsshake my headhold insidegrind my teethtense my shouldersneed reliefbrain compressedfeel like deathshutting downback to bed Image...