List: About Mental Illness and DD/MR

For almost 20 years, my work has brought me 'face-to-face' with some of the most painful and perplexing problems I've 'never' imagined...

• Until you’ve walked 1 Mile in my shoes… Part 1

  I know that we all have problems. / So, what will you think about me? / To live your life ‘normally’ – ordinarily, / that would probably be fine. / Now, I know there are people / who make me look like I’m doing

  39 lines, 4 comments, on May 4 8:17 PM 2007. In Pain, Sad, Society, Thoughts, Life
• Until you’ve walked 1 Mile in my shoes… Part 2

  I don’t have any money / because I don’t know how to spend it. / Maybe I would lend it? / Ah, who knows! It’s just a random thought / a

  27 lines, 4 comments, on May 4 8:25 PM 2007. In Pain, Personal, Sad, Society, Thoughts, Life
• Holding Back A Little

  / So many things will test your mettle. / Heart unsettled; steaming in your head—you see red. / Anger boiling to burst, but first you take a breath / You walk away; knowing if you stay you’ll shed tears / Tears of

  21 lines, 12 comments, on May 5 6:33 AM 2007. In Angst, Pain, Personal, Sad, Society, Thoughts, Life, Hope
• Crystal-lined Madness… 1 of 2

  Psychosis-Osmosis - no ‘hocus-pocus’… / …could have been what it’s called. / There is a gnawing at the brain / Increasing the pain-felt stigma of the diagnosis / What’s the prognosis? / Hmmm, not helped by hypn

  43 lines, 4 comments, on May 10 7:09 PM 2007. In Hope, Life, Love, Pain, Personal, Sad, Society, Thoughts
• Crystal-lined Madness… 2 of 2

  The agony of irony / Placed against gray scenery / With dull, cold drifts of breeze. / As a leaf crosses your face / You ‘flashback’ to a place when things were “all good”. / But to the one in the sun, / With

  35 lines, 4 comments, on May 10 7:14 PM 2007. In Angst, Fantasy, Hope, Life, Love, Pain, Personal, Sad, Society, Thoughts
• Translucent Nuisance

  Listen for some sound… / It might rebound off the sky / Marvel at the clouds as they scurry / Building on each other in a hurry / The blue

  57 lines, 11 comments, on May 14 9:50 PM 2007. In Pain, Angst, Life, Thoughts, Society, Sad
• An Abominable Know-Man

  Some view him in a paltry fashion Maybe ‘cause it’s easy, like that poultry dashing

  19 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 16 4:29 PM 2007. In Personal, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts, Life
• The Voice—Not by Choice

  At the bus stop, I kept looking his way
  There was something about that sway

  23 lines, 16 comments, on Jun 18 4:11 PM. In Life, Thoughts, Society
• Problems With Hallucinations

  He looked around; draped in a grave tone
  Anxiety in his eyes, rushed out from the midnight zone

  18 lines, 21 comments, on Aug 13 8:03 PM. In Dark, Life, Angst, Pain, Society, Thoughts, Sad

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Categories: Hope, Insight, Life's lessons, Love, Pain, Personal

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