Mental Health
This is a home for poems within and related to mental health/illness, including but not limited to: trauma, complex-ptsd, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and healing, as well as other dark or heavy emotional themes.
Content Warning: some poetry may touch on themes of sexual assault, abuse, neglect, or other forms of trauma and complex-ptsd. Some poetry may touch on themes of suicidal ideation.
Please read with care. And know you are not alone.
(beneath a thick layer of frosting)
(choose rest)
(coffee with cream)
(glass-half-full)
(lightning season)
(marinade)
(mona)
(my body)
(new year, new friend)
(sad bath)
(secret for safekeeping)
(sleep for sheep)
(sticks and stones)
(sugar scrub)
(the part that made me sad)
(this is a poem)