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Tag: drug abuse

Baby Boy

cw/tw: drug abuse, suicidal ideation, graphic description of imagined death The last time I walked this far I was a … More

BPD, breakdown, cats, death, drug abuse, grief, mental health, mental illness, pandemic, pets, poem, poetry, suicidality, suicide, writers, writing

(Pro-)/(Retro-)gression

1 I fill the void with three liters of cheap white wine and morph into a monster in a mini … More

addiction, alcohol, alcoholism, CNF, drug, drug abuse, memoir, poem, poems, poetry, prose, prose poetry, prosetry, real life

Corkboard

Got a corkboard the size of a dining table painted one side of the frame bright yellow the face to … More

addiction, alcohol, detox, drug abuse, drugs, mental health, mental illness, poem, poetry, recovery, rehab, sobriety, writing

Half-Life

Ashley told us that every time you do a line of cocaine it makes loads of microscopic holes in your … More

addiction, advice, body, drug abuse, drugs, friendship, memory, poem, poetry, psychology, science, student life, writing, youth

030919

What she says: I don’t want to feel like this anymore What he hears: *Sky Sports News on the television* … More

conversation, depression, drug abuse, drugs, fucked up, journal, life, mood, notebook, personality disorder, poem, poetry, relationships, writing

This Time

We’ve said it seriously a few times before we really need to stop we cannot possibly carry on like this … More

addiction, alcohol, drug abuse, drugs, experimental, life, London, love, poem, poetry, promises, prosetry, relationships, writing

Les BĂȘtes

First day of my #655321 attempt at sobriety. I feel sick already because I know that I will not be … More

AA, addiction, alcohol, alcoholism, anxiety, Baudelaire, beauty and the beasts, bipolar, borderline, BPD, change, depression, drinking, drug abuse, drugs, help, les fleurs du mal, McQueen, poetry, reading, recovery, savage beauty, sobriety, stop, V&A
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