Breakdown Benefits
In their urgency to cure my psychoses
anti depressants, SSRIs are prescribed
with lithium to settle moods and
as a last measure twelve sessions
of ECT under anaesthetic.
Noone...
Stigma
I wish I could tell you what’s really going on
How much I’ve struggled and fought to stay strong
I know you say “It’s okay not...
Rusty Coil
Night is still the air is dry
There is beauty in the dead silence,
Unaware in the copper sand
I am prey to your violence,
Slithering around taste...
It’s okay not to be okay…
But what if your 'mental illness' is of the destructive type.
The type that demands to be seen as it rips through all that squeezes...
Fragile Friend
Fragile Friend by Marie E. Kelly from the Mad in Ireland Poetry Collection