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Saturday, 26, April, 2025

Fragile Friend

Fragile Friend by Marie E. Kelly from the Mad in Ireland Poetry Collection

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...

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...

Over Encumbered

  Weighed down and carrying too much. Leaning too heavy on this damn crutch. Words flow like rivers but lead to no action. Talking about plans that gain...

In Trying Times

With foundations rocky The need to retreat grows stronger. As uncertainty rips through a barely grown over path Solitude beckons, company no longer Wanted as new roots dislodge...