Paranoia
Schizophrenia
Thought disorder
Anorexia
Psychotic disorder
Manic depressive disorder
Disthymia
Social anxiety disorder
Narcissist disorder
No scars.
No rashes.
No discolouration.
No fever.
Only the filthy delusion of a distorted
REALITY
doctor, doctor, help them, please.
They’re desperate for any distractions and
you’ve only titled them raving opheliacs.
John has lost his job.
He has been hospitalized three times and has been evicted from his home.
This was the outcome of his manic depression.
He is still convinced he can work through this common illness.
Sally is eighteen years old. She was kicked out of a modelling competition at age sixteen and was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder. She turned to drugs for a temporary relief to feel better about herself. She has now left her family home for a crack house and her only income is from prostitution.
She was once beautiful.
Jane is anxious around other people. She dropped out of high school because she felt like people were criticizing her every breath. That was eleven years ago. She has not left her house in those eleven years. She has been misdiagnosed seven times, yet
she thinks nothing is wrong with her.
Jane has social anxiety disorder.
Doctor, they don’t know what is wrong with them, or that anything is wrong.
Doctor, they don’t have any physical illness signs.
They don’t have the bent and crooked fingers of an arthritic victim
or the milky white eyes of a blind man.
They’re not paraplegics, bound to the confines of a wheelchair.
They can’t see their own mind when they look into the mirror, doctor.
They cannot see anything physically wrong with them.
And that’s the thing about mental illnesses doctor,
because no one else can see them either.
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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So very true and so rewarding to read you. Thank you! Your poem feels peace was hardly found. You offer i believe a simple explanation.. people who are challenged emotionally are unbearably lonely. I taught art therapy for clients who had all sorts of emotions and challenges. Beside a chemical imbalance if applicable and ruled out, seems to be the despair of loneliness, the loneliness of solitude, the loneliness of society. In the kind of wasteland we live in, no wonder few can understand..
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Oh how very true your words are - these souls are lost and are misdiagnosed so often, are given the wrong medication and are counting on someone to find out the solution to their problems, when really they are part of the problem. Labels are not good it they are not the right ones. They look perfectly normal on the outside too - and sometimes are, but often no. They think they are perfectly normal too and once they reach adulthood and there is no one there to make sure they take their meds, they forget, and all hell breaks loose. What to do?
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Oooh. This is very good. It has great insight into the minds of these people. Great write!
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