On The Spectrum
/… wish I was normal, like every one else around.
Instead of impossible to understand, always left in the lost and found.
Everyone talks in riddles, a secret…
By Simple Sue
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Lost In Translation
/…I won't make any sense, my head is dark and raining.
Thoughts are tangled, all a mess, surviving feels so draining.
Tell me please, one more time, the ways that I am broken?
When the words fall off your lips they find…
By Simple Sue
Read MoreThorns And Roses
/…could write a poem about the beautiful sky,
lillies and butterflies and birds flying by.
I can write happily ever after fairy tales,
or of walking the beach, collecting…
By Simple Sue
Read MoreLiving With ADHD
/A poem about a person…
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…not as I seem
I live in my own world with ADHD
Constantly misplacing…
By Brittany Benko
Read MoreAll-Or-Nothing Thinking
/…reason this all-or-nothing thinking?
Too hot, too cold,—but never in the middle
I live, a victim of this ruthless riddle
(that contradicts reply, and has…
By Ngoc Nguyen
Read MoreEndless Darkness
/Recently I struggled through…
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…her hand on her phone, hoping she hit snooze, the alarm stopped. She was warm and comfortable, more to the point she did not want to face another day. The thought exhausted her, she suddenly felt so tired. She must have drifted off again as her alarm was…
By Ellysa Greenhalgh
Read MoreMentally Visible
/…cannot work out whether more effort has been exerted hiding my mental health problems or fighting them. As you grow up and become a teenager and then an adult, you are not initially aware that not everyone feels as desolate and hopeless or as manic and psychotic as you. You wrongly assume all people think like you and the way you act is…
By Stuart Alexander
Read MoreThat One Post
/A reflection on how it can feel to be overlooked in a digital world
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…day she reaches out
a tweet — a ping — a post
a call into the…
By Sarah Bricault
Read MoreBrain Delay
/Prescription for feelings...
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…remember “Back in the Day,” when a child expressing their feelings, could prescribe them a regime of Ritalin, lasting for years, while they wither…
By Tracey Ross
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