Mental Health

07 Dec 2021

·reefaman

I have been a victim of a mental health illness since i was a child Suffering torment and confusion of the worse kind My school psychologist said i would grow out of it in time He did not understand the self-hatred i felt about myself all the time I often had to hide the out of control self-harms It didn't physically hurt me when i would cut into my legs and arms In my late teens, i was spiralling out of control I believed my thoughts were not my own By this time i was a patient of the multidisciplinary mental health team They realized i needed serious help before it was too late So they hospitalized me under section 3 of the mental health act Therefore on my suicidal idealizations, i could not act Never have i been classed as a danger to the general population But towards myself, it's a different situation I have always wondered what it's like to be so-called sane But a decline in my mental health state always happens Time after time again The fear of the mentally from the general population Is unjustified in a real-life teaching situation In schools, they should teach mental health instead of religious education I will leave you with this thought Empathy toward mental illness should be taught

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reefaman

reefaman

I have a mental health illness and I was a inpatient in a private secure mental health hospital not because i was a danger to the public but because i myself was the only person who was in danger from me was myself and that will reflect in my poetry...

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