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Tag: experience

Elizabeth

she looked like a girl I knew but stranger a creature dental-floss hair ice in her eyes tattoos on her … More

conversation, depression, dialogue, experience, friendship, holiday, life, mental illness, poem, poetry, secrets, strangers, suffering, writing

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I am always really surprised when I realise that I’m alive [that I’m alive to begin with / that I’m … More

death, diary, experience, journal, life, madness, mortality, notebook, poetry, truth, writing

Two Thousand and Nineteen

JANUARY NYE was disastrous: a big fight and an unforgivable text message. Boyfriend dumped me. Nights wandering around the city, … More

2019, art, books, breakdown, depression, experience, hospital, life, mental health, mental illness, poetry, psychosis, sectioned, truth, writing

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found in phone notes 9th Nov – 23:23 The last time I met Emily Dickinson in my dreams we had … More

diary, dreams, experience, journal, life, memory, notebook, poetry, prose, trauma

Talking

Talking doesn’t feel like healing. For me, talking feels like opening old wounds waking dormant demons picking at infected scabs … More

BPD, experience, Free Verse Revolution, FVR, healing, hospital, life, mental illness, NHS, poetry, prompt, psychotherapy, recovery, therapy, treatment, writing

Finding It

Girl is finding it hard to write. Miserable, broken, easier to just fall. To write honest work the stuff that … More

art, depression, erasure, experience, girl, Hijacked Amygdala, life, love, media, newspapers, poem, poetry, words, writer, writing

A Room Of One’s Own

Goodbye, Flat 20, 11 High Street. Where I sat wide awake in the middle of the night, staring out of … More

change, experience, feminism, feministbookchallenge, grief, inspiration, life, London, notebook, poem, poetry, prosetry, writing, writing prompt

Hack

Dear Little Boy who was sitting in front of me on the 214 bus yesterday who had his arm wrapped … More

advice, childhood, conversation, experience, kids, learning, letter, life, London, poem, poetry, prosetry, self harm, strangers, truth

Scars

[Part of the Body Series] “Have you ever counted them?” “No.” “You should count them,” “Why?” “It’ll be interesting,” “I don’t think … More

body, body image, childhood, confessional, depression, experience, image, injury, life, mental illness, pain, self harm, self portrait, series, teenager, truth, violence, writing

Discovery

[Part of the Body Series] I take off my jumper and am surprised at what I find. There are words scrawled … More

addiction, alcoholism, body, depression, experience, experimental, mental illness, pain, sadness, series, truth, words, writing

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