Tag: mental health
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Unmasking the stigma of mental health
It was a dark November evening, I’d had enough. I was off work due to my poor mental health and had slept for over a month. Literally slept the day away every single day. I thought I was helping myself, thinking that if I slept because I was tired then eventually I would get better.…
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Lashes
For years I’ve picked and picked at my eyelashes and many times one or both eyes have been almost bald. Recently I challenged myself to stop picking. It took a while and I had a setback but I did it. As my incentive I decided I would get a set of false eyelashes and on…
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Ruby wax on antidepressants, a perfect explanation
img_8903 I’ve been trying for years to describe the effects antidepressant tablets have, here is Ruby’s explanation.
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Trapped
This is the 1st poem I ever wrote all the way back in 2009. This busy minds taking me where I don’t want to go,Leading to the dark where im scared and alone.People who are friends, wear masks of foes.As the evening moves on I wish it would draw to a close As sleep evades…
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The old cloak
You wear it like an old black cloakIt smothers the light within.Wherever you go, it’s always thereKeeping out the good people bring.However your feeling it weighs you down,Heavily present thick fog makes it hard to breatheHard to talk and impossible to leave behind! It wasn’t always this way,Though too long has passed nowIt’s difficult to…
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Comfort blanket
Cashing in prescription after prescription, Month after month, year upon year. A time when you weren’t medicated, You can’t recall It’s all a blur! So long the positives are outweighed by the problems The fog of thinking unclearly, Straight through the memory-loss the fatigue, oh the unbelievable exhaustion So familiar the motion of popping a…
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A little background
You may be wondering why I’m writing a blog and what is so interesting about me that you should take time out of your day to read anything I write? Well it’s not that I’m particularly interesting I just need a place to document my journey and here seemed as good a place as any.…
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PoetryJo says hi
Hello and welcome to my blog. Here I will share my journey to mental wellness with you. I will post pictures and poems as well as daily check ins. Writing poetry has been a coping mechanism for some time I have about 40 poems I’ve written previously, I may share some here and I will…
PoetryJo walks to wellness 