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Jan 2017
You are captive to it.

This numbing redeemer.

Who ever said

putting the genie

back into the bottle

was an impossible task.

It only takes a pill

these days

but it don't last.

And if you're not

all together careful

cradling its contents

so precious like breath

You could end up

smothering your genie

and leaving him for dead.
Mental illness is a real thing that needs real solutions. Pills help get patients stable again but they should not be used to over-medicate into a zombie-like state.Β Β Instead, we need to see mental illness as a spiritual awakening for the people who experience this and work with them on an organic and soulful level integrating the mind, body and spirit.
Tanisha Jackland
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Tanisha Jackland  111/F/is still getting old.
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