Mentalhealth Poems
On Loop
by Jazi E-A
You force yourself to get up for the morning
Hoping for a good day
Wanting to become a better person
After a few words of encouragement
You recognize the pleasant but somewhat unfamiliar feeling
......
Intrusive Thoughts
by Falling Awake
Distressing thoughts
that cut into life’s flow,
Are piercing through
the everyday pauses.
Coming on abruptly incongruent,
Feeling so extrinsic and unforeseen,
Their circuits loop around insistently.
As the thoughts intensify,
......
Schizophrenia
by Beth Johnson
I’ve got so many voices inside my head,
my Schizophrenia’s keeping them fed,
I’m starting to feel lost within myself,
think I’m turning into someone else.
I’m always planning my escape,
before my brain can escalate.
“I can’t find it,
......
Accept Difference: Christen Kuikoua Health Responds
by Christen Kuikoua
What you see is just an illusion
of the whole puzzle piece,
So to define ourselves
by our Perceptions and thoughts
is to continue to live a lie and to be color blind,
And no one deserve hatred for been different,
infarct we can learn about difference and embrace it.
So Now don't close your eyes or deny the facts,
we are one people with many stories,
One human race with a colorless spirits
......
Brainstorm
by Callie Hayes
I despise the ocean
but this girl in my head does not
She is not afraid to love
and she is not afraid to rot
And if it can't be perfect
then it shan't be done at all
Tip back in your chair
Slam your head against the wall
......
Intrusive Thoughts
by Falling Awake
Distressing thoughts
that cut into life’s flow,
Are piercing through
the everyday pauses.
Coming on abruptly incongruent,
Feeling so extrinsic and unforeseen,
Their circuits loop around insistently.
As the thoughts intensify,
......
On Loop
by Jazi E-A
You force yourself to get up for the morning
Hoping for a good day
Wanting to become a better person
After a few words of encouragement
You recognize the pleasant but somewhat unfamiliar feeling
......
Brainstorm
by Callie Hayes
I despise the ocean
but this girl in my head does not
She is not afraid to love
and she is not afraid to rot
And if it can't be perfect
then it shan't be done at all
Tip back in your chair
Slam your head against the wall
......
Accept Difference: Christen Kuikoua Health Responds
by Christen Kuikoua
What you see is just an illusion
of the whole puzzle piece,
So to define ourselves
by our Perceptions and thoughts
is to continue to live a lie and to be color blind,
And no one deserve hatred for been different,
infarct we can learn about difference and embrace it.
So Now don't close your eyes or deny the facts,
we are one people with many stories,
One human race with a colorless spirits
......
Schizophrenia
by Beth Johnson
I’ve got so many voices inside my head,
my Schizophrenia’s keeping them fed,
I’m starting to feel lost within myself,
think I’m turning into someone else.
I’m always planning my escape,
before my brain can escalate.
“I can’t find it,
......
