Tag: Mental Health
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Mental Illness And Misinformation
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What’s something most people don’t understand? It’s astounding how many people still completely misunderstand mental illness. Well, maybe not astounding because it’s hard for me to understand despite personally dealing with it for a large percentage of my life. But I guess what I’m referring to is the amount of people who believe mental illness…
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A Reflection and Tanka Haiku Poem About Adult ADHD and Distraction
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A tanka haiku 5 7 5 7 7 poem about adult ADHD and distractions as well as strategies to maintain focus and a personal reflection on the difficulties of living with ADHD.
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Creativity and Mental Health: How to Accept and Embrace Your Creative Mind
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Having a Creative Personality vs Being A Creative Person When you have a creative nature, you’re different from a creative-minded person, someone who seeks creative pursuits, and even different from someone who has a highly creative brain. Some people may seek ways to incorporate creative thinking into their lives or become more artistic, but when…
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Failure Is A Key To Success
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Success is how well you’ve done with the potential within yourself. The potential for love, for honesty, for self-awareness, for growth, for forgiveness. Success is how well you’ve polished your soul and only failure and heartache can make you aware that it even needs cleaned.
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Hope in Mental Health Recovery
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Real hope for recovery from mental illness depends on realistic expectations and flexibility.
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10 Lessons of Advice For My Younger Self and Teens
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A Healthy Self-Esteem is the Foundation For Good Mental Health All the previous pieces of advice are predicated on having a healthy self-esteem–proud but humble. If we don’t have confidence in who we are we can’t…
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Stopping the OCD and Anxiety Spirals of Negative Thoughts
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“A fourth thought arrived. Then many more”–so begins the hell of the spiral down to a panic attack or at least misery. This quote is a perfect description of how the spiral of anxiety starts and morphs into full blown panic from a single thought. Oh, if only you could avoid the first worried thought…
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Monsters – Poem About Anxiety Disorder and Fear
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Monsters Poem about Anxiety Disorder and Fear Fear waits for me under the bed – a faceless monster made of shadow that slithers towards me in the darkness the moment my head hits the pillow. Devouring my dreams. Splitting the seams of sleep. Replacing yawns with racing thoughts. Justin Farley
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Poem About Gratitude, Having a Positive Attitude and Blessings
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No Quarter If I look, I’ll find 1000 complaints, but I’ve resolved to give no quarter to protest when I’ve been so blessed with gifts raining down from Heaven like manna. If I find my vision dull, dark, and gray it’s because I’ve chosen to stay blind to how lucky I truly am. Of course…
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A Guided Meditation for Panic and Anxiety Disorders with Hypochondria
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Meditation is often touted as a great solution for alleviating anxiety and stress. And it can be, but for those of us who have anxiety disorders, meditation and stillness runs counter-intuitive to our body’s natural desire to run and distract ourselves whenever we’re alone with our thoughts. I wanted to share something that has really…
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The Road to Recovery – A Poem by Justin Farley
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The Road to Recovery I tried walking away from madness, seeking peace. But found I was bound and a captive, unable to retreat. Astonished, I looked down at shackles clasped around my hands and feet. I have hollered until I was hoarse; solitude is the only company I keep. What is left now other than…
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Losing Myself Poem About Mental Illness and Recovery
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Losing Myself I’m losing myself in pieces –every year fragments of my soulfeel swept away by time. My identity constantly decreases,and I’m beginning to feel like a strangerwithin the confines of my own mind. Yes, I’m losing myself in pieces –the jigsaw puzzle’s lovely imagehas jumbled into an abstract mess. But my search for meaning…
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Deep Poem About Depression Feeling Emptiness
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A poem poem depression, examining what it means to be depressed and feel nothing—no sadness, no desire, no happiness—and to feel all the warmth of life disappear.
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The Clouds of Mourning – A Poem About Depression and Pain
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As we go through life, there are inevitable seasons where it seems the skies are always cloudy, always raining, and the forecast will never change. Anyone that has ever dealt with depression (or any mental illness for that matter) knows that it is like a ghost that haunts you no matter where you go or…
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The Fight – A Poem About Conquering Fear
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A Poem about conquering fear and not letting fear choose your destiny or get in the way of your dreams.
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Coming of Age – A Poem About Growing Up
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Coming of Age – A Poem About Growing Up I walk alone down the streets of time,Constantly searching, yearning for a home I can call mine.But the migrant bustle, hustle through the downtown streetsMakes it nearly impossible, a distant and unattainable feat.Who are these faces that stare back at me?Why do they appear so alive,…
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