Writing As A Form Of Therapy

@StuF

Hello Stu'

Strong thoughts and feelings expressed in your poem. Moving, and as someone recently used the expression, could be referred to as poignant.

You've mentioned not travelling so well at the moment. I hope that your situation improves quickly for better feelings ahead.

With Best Wishes

@HenryX

@HenryX

Thanks for the feedback on the poem and the hopes for improvement. My situation is not so bad, really, I'm just not reacting well to it at present. I'll get over it 🙂

Part of the problem has been reading other people's stories which are Much worse than mine and the feeling of "What am I so worried about in My life then?"

Anyway, thanks again for the response!

Hi @bipolarbunny

Thank you so much for sharing one of your verses with us

Wow! What an incredibly raw, authentic and powerful piece of work!

You definitely have a gift for writing and I would love to be able to read some of your other verses - but only if you feel comfortable to share these

Take care,

ShiningStar

Hi @ShiningStar

@bipolarbunny has been generous enough to share many poems in this thread... if you have the time to browse you'll be richly rewarded

Dimity

@StuF

Hello Stu'

I agree that there can be some difficulty when reading life details from others, and keeping our own position in perspective. However, I think it is always easy to minimise our own position and feel that we should be thankful that our position is not worse.

When we read through threads, posts and responses, we see that other people often make similar comments, minimising their own situation and trying to make way for other more severely affected people. I have, at times, reflected on my own situation, that due to a number of factors, including a sense of "hurt pride", that I may not always have sought or used the resources that may have been available to me. Because of my age, some of the resources, that exist now, did not exist earlier in my life. {My 'teen years were just at the end of the era of mental health institutions, asylums.} The consequence, I believe, is that my quality of life may well have been diminished to a significant degree. Also, my capacity to contribute to the community and people around me has also been diminished. So, those people could possibly have missed some contribution that I could otherwise have offered. That may, in part, have been because I didn't think I needed assistance and, if I did think that assistance may have been beneficial, was not prepared to ask for it. There were also issues of social stigma and fear. While there still exists concern about stigma and similar issues, education, information and improved treatments have meant that those social issues have diminished considerably over the past 50 years.

I now believe, by individually recognising our respective positions and thinking of how we can improve our capacity, in addition to the knowledge that we subsequently acquire, we can improve not only our own position, but mutually share with and help those people around us. This forum being one of the available ways by which we can receive and learn, and also extend assistance to others.

The following information is available on the WEB, and also, even more graphic material. I would certainly prefer to suffer a mild form of MI and be able to help others today, than the situation that I may otherwise have been in, as recently as the 1970's

A strong warning about the following material available on the web:

Institutions such as described in the following material existed until the 1960's & 70's

The following is a website which is part of an American course presented by:

lumencandela Introduction to Psychology Module 15: Therapy and Treatment

There is a great deal of other information available.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-psychology/chapter/introduction-to-mental-health/

Learning Objectives

• Explain how people with psychological disorders have been treated throughout the ages and discuss deinstitutionalization

• Describe the ways in which mental health services are delivered today, including the distinction between voluntary and involuntary treatment

{I cannot offer any guarantee as to the quality, correctness or accuracy of the website information above, but it is offered as a brief introduction}

@HenryX

Thanks for those links. I will read through the 2nd one later. Looks interesting 🙂

I appreciate the time and effort you put into your responses!

@HenryX

Good reading so far! I've only managed the first page, will take a while to consume it all.

Had forgotten about trephining!

Really interesting stuff; thanks 🙂

@HenryX

I must confess, I have failed you...

That link was interesting, but unfortunately beyond my powers of concentration.

Thanks again 🙂

"My tears fall on hallowed ground

Saturating innocence

Through this divine alchemy

Life remains eternal"

Wow @StuF such powerful and beautiful words born from your struggle. Really love the last verse, it speaks to me in so many ways. Definitely don't love that you are struggling, but love the way you can express that struggle in such a powerful way. So awesome my friend xx

BB 🐰💙

@ShiningStar Thank you so much for your very kind words. Writing has become such a joy and important part of my healing and I feel privileged to be able to share it here for everyone to read. As @Dimity has kindly expressed, I have posted several poems on this thread already. If you scroll back through you'll find mine as well as many fine works from @StuF @Mazarita @BlueBay and of course @Silenus who was the creator of this thread.
Have a wonderful day my friend and thank you again for your support. It means a great deal. xx

BB 🐰💙