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Monday, 24, November, 2025

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