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#mentaldisorder
it's coming back i don't even try to hide it my energy is at lack i don't even try to fight it it's the same old same old yet I never expect it "you seem fine" i'm always told my brain is so hectic back to my old way a few burns here I miss my good days a couple cuts there counting the pills until i fall asleep calculate what'll take the **** 32? i'm in too deep will this time be the end? i honestly hope so can't survive this again i can barely say no
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Nov 30, 2024
Nov 30, 2024 at 12:17 AM UTC
it's getting worse
it's been great for so long nothing could ever be bad i always sing this song nothing could ever make me sad the hurt is so far away almost like it was never here "i'm on top of the world" i say i'll never shed another tear i go to sleep all happy without a worry i wake up all sappy of course it's in a hurry how long will this time last? it's all black and gray i thought it was in the past it's a never-ending pay turns out it was always there distractions just pushed it aside don't know how much longer i can bear i just want this monster to die
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Nov 30, 2024
Nov 30, 2024 at 12:11 AM UTC
familiar times
I pace around, adoring each flower. I’m not nervous. I just have bipolar. I’m tapping my fingers for ten hours.   I’m not restless. I just have bipolar. I wake up four times during the nighttime. My heartbeat flies out of my very chest. Awake. It’s been hours since watching crime! Alive. I begin prepping for a test. My words bounce back around the four drywalls. Like a child, thoughts scamper through my mind. Abruptly I laugh. Then I start to bawl. My emotions begin to intertwine. I make mindless plans with seven people. I say something out of pocket to Van. Now I try to use a tattoo needle. **** I just tossed and broke my only fan.
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Mar 7, 2023
Mar 7, 2023 at 3:06 PM UTC
A Dose of Mania
downtown is a much newer scene than even i thought it’d be - i was prepared to be a novice. i was prepared to be out of place. and this was nothing, i could handle these old odd eyes, i just wasn’t ready to feel so dropped in. but i’d drawn a diagram of this situation, a different specific (god **** i can’t hear myself think) why am i surprised to feel so dropped in when i’ve drawn it? drawn upon it? why am i surprised that a new brand new situation feels just the same as the new situations of before, when i’ve had so many that i can picture the the sensation of my brain? i’ve made a series of green lines on a yellow, lined piece of paper. i’ve meant to take it to my shrink for months. once, i had it in my purse and my guts, when i entered, decided to shrink. i said i was fine, and the same, and i started to drop the pills that stole my sleep onto the streets. it’s helped, and i’m surprised. and my brain feels more awake than any other time in the past three years… so. to which part of town do i go to from here?
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Jun 23, 2014
Jun 23, 2014 at 12:09 PM UTC
downtown is
Mental and emotional wounds are invisible, but a wound is still felt by those they inflict Just like a tiny cut, you still feel the pain even if you can't see it Just like the cancer beneath your flesh and in your brain, it still eats away at you These are wounds that don't heal or go away if you apply pressure or put a bandaid over There is no stitch that can put your broken heart and wounded mind back together You walk with this pain Feel it in every step and passing look The goosebumps on your arms The trembling of your hands The darkness behind your eyes The apathy in your voice You can't see the wound, but sometimes you can see the symtoms You can't feel the pain another feels You can't see it but that doesn't mean it isn't there You can't see a cough or a virus as it courses its way through your body But that doesn't mean they aren't real We carry these invisible scars with us And they never truly go away or fade
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Jul 14, 2020
Jul 14, 2020 at 1:47 PM UTC
Invisible scars
One full pill. Prescribed from, the white hell. Antidepressant from the back store, elevate life to the top floor. Forced prescription, out of stock. Oxytocin pumped, hidden cortisol. Might as well walk the red carpet, in celebration of Parasite. As the clock struck, the midnight hour. Take the happy little pill. **** **** don't swallow. Heavy eyes, don't fall over. Lies, deceit, promises hollow. Been 10 years, time to catch up. Rewind the clock. Like a jar of fireflies, shut it before any escape. Rogue eyelids, on a mission to shut. Weak resolve, strong dose. Drifted to dreamland. Summer sun in seasonal switch up. Sun rays like holy water, hiss like a vain vampire. Shops in an anarchy riot, open the door to the sockets. Oh, blind justice lady, I am blind too. Shuffle Shuffle, like the undead. Dragged the dead body to downtown. It's a miracle, failed to faint. Crude world, crude demands. Have some respect for the dead. By lord´s grace, limped home safe. Met the coated monster today again. Struggled to even stay still. Advised to adapt, showed nothing but apathy. A parasitic patient, eat away. A death drain, drip away. A strained stranger on a stretcher, carry away. Tiny changes in hopes of conformity. Circular cycle starts once again. Half a pill today.
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Feb 22, 2020
Feb 22, 2020 at 8:36 PM UTC
Medicated Zombie
I don't understand how someone so strong Could think they are so weak When they deal with way more bull Than anyone should ever deal with. I don't understand how someone that handsome Could think they are that much of an abomination When they have hated themselves way more Than anyone should be hated, particularly him. I don't understand how someone so amazing Ended up so strong So self-loathing So anxious So depressed So misplaced So disadvantaged.
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Oct 23, 2019
Oct 23, 2019 at 11:31 PM UTC
Incomprehension
that's what she told me. But without it, who I am? I don't think I would recognize myself.
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Sep 16, 2019
Sep 16, 2019 at 8:27 PM UTC
Don't Let it Control You,
Like an albatross I criss then cross Lines of red ink on me And what's the cost? I keep fighting, But lost And cut my right ear off Like Evander Holyfield Or Van Gogh, An artist, Now trust. And me the curse Who only gets worse The more you get to know him. Everything I do Is a ******* sin. And life is a pool I can't jump in- I can't swim And then I sink And think Of those who can't swim too In my ocean of negativity And dying virtues. These are my cues To leave out And choose The ones who know what I'm about Before I lose My sanity to clout And pick a fool Like me. A maniac and insomniac And freak show To be.
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Apr 29, 2019
Apr 29, 2019 at 5:30 PM UTC
Freak Show
I stand in a puddle of water Liquid pooled around my ankles Dripping from my eyes so slow I didn’t notice them at first But when they become apparent, foreign fingers brushed them away And I disregard the wetness to pull back the hands Who do these hands belong to? The puddle becomes a pool I stand in the shallows and wiggle my toes My fingers have grown pruney from where my fingers dip in the water Blisters have settled on my soles and children splash at my face Droplets trail to my collarbone and I blink away water or tears and wonder Ears listening to unrecognizable laughter Whose children are these? The water sits level at my mouth I should feel weightless but my clothes drag me down The pool has become a lake and I stand in it shivering Perched on my toes there is a precarious balance for air The tears don’t stop and the water keeps rising My sobs echo across the surface Murky figures wave at me from the shore and smile like they know me Who am I? They say a river never forgets That it knows its way back to the ocean But my river swirls around my head and drips out my ears The lake forms a loch of memories that can be touched But never held A lake is where memories go to be forgotten I drown in a Lethe that pours from my eyes, from my mind And I sink to forget and be forgotten
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Jan 30, 2019
Jan 30, 2019 at 4:15 PM UTC
Trapped Rivers turn into Lakes
"i'm fine," said those who hide their faces from their friends those who force their laughter and fake their smiles dull eyes "i don't care," said the ones who were mocked endlessly teased, ridiculed, excluded, demeaned the taste of tears "i'm used to it," said the ones who can't sleep at night from anxiety their hearts race in constant fear of the unknown numb fingertips "i can handle it," said those who stare at their reflection for hours those who can't stop thinking they're not good enough distorted faces "i'm sorry" said the ones who scratch themselves 'till they bleed their bitten nails red and painful dried blood
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Jan 7, 2019
Jan 7, 2019 at 1:52 PM UTC
lies
It pushes everyone away. It ruins all my relationships. I died at the hands of my thoughts today. He tells me that he loves me, He tells me that it’s okay, But they won’t let me believe it. is love real? is happiness real? is anything real? because at this rate, it might all just be fake. in fact, that’d be better, because then i wouldn’t have to feel this pain.
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Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 2018 at 8:46 PM UTC
obsess-ism
why do you push everyone away? why do you hurt everyone? why do you hurt me? why do you care so much about what they think? why can’t i break free?
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Aug 26, 2018
Aug 26, 2018 at 4:43 PM UTC
to: OCD
The darkness is seeping in Into my mind Into my heart And into my soul It's taking my thoughts So now they are no longer whole They are broken Fractured Shattered Seeping into nothing They are being consumed by the darkness Along with me One day I will no longer be able to pretend And everyone will see The me I have kept hidden away
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May 24, 2018
May 24, 2018 at 5:06 PM UTC
Darkened Mind
my grandmother is dead and it is my fault turns out the eating disorder doesn't just **** only you. ... stressful.
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Feb 23, 2018
Feb 23, 2018 at 11:03 PM UTC
January 27, 2018
My brain is moving a million miles per hour, though it pleads to stop.
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Feb 20, 2018
Feb 20, 2018 at 12:40 PM UTC
Insomnia (Haiku)
is this what a panic attack is? a race horse instead of a heart static numbness prickling fingertips the weight of every insecurity sitting on my lungs forcing a battle to be fought with every exhausting breath spiders crawling to and from upon my spine whispering my greatest fears giggling at my mortality weakness in every inch of my being constantly under attack by my own body my own traitorous body hopelessness shredding my self worth driving my fragile state into a frenzy
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Jan 22, 2018
Jan 22, 2018 at 2:41 AM UTC
panic
Help me again from this pain, My heartbeat is beating so fast and I don't want to feel this way again My body is shaking and nobody came No love from others , and my heart always get some stain. I feel I was in the penitentiary, Trapped inside a cell,can't find a way to set me free, I'm alive but I feel I'm dead Every second of my life I felt I was running in a thread Those books I read , Still hauntin' my head , The Knowledge I received , Is it good or bad? This panic attacks , Solution is Xanax Very addictive , but Helps me to relax. Is this the same way to begin with ? Or choose "To be Alive or Dead?"
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Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017 at 1:20 PM UTC
Panic Xanax
She wants to talk to me, But I don't want to hear her voice Voice of selfish person that keeps haunting me since I was broken, Breaking my heart, ripped every piece of my soul. You're so lucky because you easily found someone else, ******* ***** And this is what happen to me , every night I keep pushing myself that I don't really need you anymore , Until the years past I completely move on Now I'm free , I'm better but not completely at all. Because since you left me , There's a voice inside my head That keeps telling me life is just a joke and death is the solution.
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Nov 17, 2017
Nov 17, 2017 at 11:40 AM UTC
Ex-Tress
i am not here i am not yet born, i am in a crate i am not sure i am not what i thought i was i am still i am lost i am not yet grown i am going i am going i am going i am going far ...far ......far .........far downhill i am sure
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Nov 9, 2017
Nov 9, 2017 at 6:29 PM UTC
i am...
why is everyone assuming im so good "im so glad youre doing well" "you seem so happy!" "oh this is great that you are doing so much better." but i am not i am crying in grocery stores and running because i ate a twinky i am crumbling i am not okay this is not okay
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Nov 5, 2017
Nov 5, 2017 at 5:56 PM UTC
not okay
please, you have to understand, this isn't me. i am not my mood swings, i am not my fear of talking on phones. please, you have to understand, this isn't me. i am not my depressive episodes, i am not my medications i must take. please, you have to understand, this isn't me. i am not my fear of eating, i  am not my fear of being replaced or ignored. understand, i am not my depression. understand, i am not my anxiety. understand, i am not my PMDD. understand, i am not my BPD. understand, i am not my eating disorder. please, you have to understand, this is me. i am my love of cats, and i am my admiration of everything musical. please, you have to understand, this is me. i am a lover of stationery, and i am a lover of every single living creature. please, you have to understand, this is me. i am one who eats one too many brownies, and i am one who cares for the entirety of the environment. please, see past my mental disorder(s). see the real me, not just the chemistry in my brain. please, see my lust for life. see me beating stereotypes, see me being me.
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Nov 5, 2017
Nov 5, 2017 at 12:31 AM UTC
please, you have to understand.
Scorched flesh, So inflamed and infected, Fresh damage to self. Flames dance after thee, As you break away. Your in dire need for a rescue, But hate to complain. Burns meet silence, As cream heals all but the screams. They set your insides aflame, Everything physically a crisp, As you mentally try to breath.
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Oct 22, 2017
Oct 22, 2017 at 9:55 PM UTC
Set Aflame