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Each month we are encouraging our bloggers to write about a themed topic. The topic for May is depression.
Share your thoughts/experiences with the SANE Community here.
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I live in The Netherlands and I wrote this poem for IBT, a fantastic team that visits patients in the community in an effort to keep them out of hospital. They were amazing.
It's t...
It was so hard to reach out, to come through your door,
As my fears were intense, my emotions raw;
I sobbed uncontrollably, looking for something to blame,
To justify my feelings, ...
A memory once safely tucked away, far aside
Is suddenly released as it’s cautiously described;
An image provides focus and the words start to tumble,
Locked emotions emerge, ...
When I embarked on this journey, nearly a year ago,
Of the challenges that lay ahead, so little did I know;
Frightened and vulnerable, I was led through your door,
Apprehensive and...
There's no way to resist it, though I didn't want it back,
No way to see through it, such vision I lack;
No way to clear it, I don't have the power,
No way to fight it, I simply co...
JUGGLING – a mum’s / teacher’s life before therapy
Balls of different shapes, colours and sizes,
Juggled swiftly with the help of many different guises;
Efficienc...
I stretched up to the sky one day.
And in response,
The Earth wrapped her tendrils around my ankles.
And she said to me -
Fly if you must but one day you will fall.
And when you fa...
I wrote a poem following my recent several months of mental struggles with no money, finding a career job, moving from my family home in a dead rural town to a ten-bed hostel in a ...
I have bipolar 1 and what has helped me over the years is to put myself first and to take responsibility over my illness. I have taken full control of my medication, I have learnt ...
One major aspect that has helped me to rationalise my thought processes after living with anxiety is verbalising them. This involved talking to myself but out loud or to a family m...
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