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The accidental hermit is changing
The main problem for me with Borderline personality disorder is that constant... read more
Faith and mental health
I spent many years discovering and developing my religious viewpoint and... read more
Talking About Self-harm
Self-harm is not just about cutting or burning, its also excessive drinking or... read more
Published elsewhere
Guest blogging here The Arts in Wiltshire I was asked by The Restoration Trust... read more
The Stonehenge lectures 2155
The large lecture hall was filled with around 250 of the most influential... read more
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It’s a borderline personality thing.
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Conversations with my shadow self Little voices turn in to little people, Who sit in a judgement circle. Archetypes of the different self, And the shadow self sits as judge. Hope to its left and faith to the right, …
Posted in BPD- poems, POEMS
Tagged Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Fears, feeling, Happy, Negative feelings, Peace, thoughts, Title as Poem Catalyst
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Ashamed
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Our green and pleasant land blighted by hate, Little men with little island mentality – Make war against democracy, The weak harnessed to the yoke of injustice – As the world points fingers. History starts to repeat And the …
Posted in Free Verse Poems:, POEMS, Political
Tagged Anxiety, Dark thoughts, Depression, Dystopia, Political, thoughts, Todays World
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Death sits close
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Death sits close A smell not unpleasant fills the air Each stranger’s look holds deaths eyes, And she takes the form of friend and pet Comfort comes from communication, We sit and chat like old friends, Weighing the past on …
Posted in BPD- poems, POEMS
Tagged Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Fears, Goddess, Happy, Imagist poem, Love, Pagan, Peace
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Sunday Dreaming
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Skies dance in grey and blue, Sun shines as wind whips, Rain obscures the windows view, And the shadows walk the halls, The voices of the past echo in the silence, The soul sits in contemplation. The enlightenment of isolation, …
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Tagged Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Dystopia, Fears, Negative feelings, thoughts
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When did it change?
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When did it change? Was it always this way? Was kindness a delusion? Has my psychosis heal? Was the hate always present? Did it hang like shadows? Kept away by medicated realties. Was its voice muffled by drugs? Was vision …
Posted in BPD- poems, POEMS
Tagged Anger, Anxiety, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Fears, Negative feelings, Todays World
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senses
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At first your lies fell onto me like snowflakes — your touch licked at my flesh like serpent tongues, The painful pleasure of scratched vinyl. Explosions of emotions left shrapnel in its wake, sharp jagged feelings ripped raw then exposed …
Posted in Generic poems, POEMS
Tagged coursework, Depression, Fears, Happy, painting with words, senses
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Depression
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You glide in an out of sight, Dancing on the periphery of my memories, So familiar that your presence is contemptuous, Your movements so subtle and light, A dark dance of delight heralds your arrival, Your attire signifies …
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Tagged Dark thoughts, Depression, Negative feelings, thoughts
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The Now and Then
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I was wild like the wind, I ran and jumped and cried with pain and joy, I knew what love and laughter was, I was many, the multitude and whole But time battered me, and I changed, The skin of …
Posted in BPD- poems, POEMS
Tagged Anger, Anxiety, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Dystopia, Negative feelings, Self Image
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WAT temple of confusion and discuss
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Words of hate expelled from digital dreams, As bile filled hard drives leak binary judgements, The human race starts to scream, While manifestos of hope come with caveats, As truth is suppressed by the oppressors, The human race kneels …
Posted in Generic poems, POEMS
Tagged Anger, behavior, Dark thoughts, Depression, Dystopia, Fears, feeling, Religion, thoughts, Todays World, War
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Confused and bemused
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Racist bigot with funny hair, Betrayed wife with axe to grind, Man of peace with hope at his side. Choice of three! You decide! The devil filled with bile, The sorceress forked tongued whore of Revelation, The soft …
Posted in Generic poems, POEMS, Political
Tagged Anxiety, Bernie Sanders, Dark thoughts, Depression, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Negative feelings, Todays World
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