I was trying to be a faithful "health activist" and do a post every day, but I've been too tired at night lately to do so. The warm Spring weather and a decrease in some of my medications has meant that I am much more energetic and I haven't even needed to take naps anymore, which is both wonderful and weird. Unfortunately, it means that I get tired a lot earlier than I used to and so I'm back to doing the posts whenever I can.
Today's prompt was to write an acrostic about my condition. An acrostic is a type of poem where the first letter in each line spells out a word and each line describes the word. I put my own twist on it though and used the letters to form a sentence that makes some kind of point about mental illness. It was a fun project and probably my favorite one so far.
Mental Illness
Mental,
Evil,
Nutty,
Touched in the head,
Absurd,
Looney -
Ignorance
Looks
Like
Not
Enough
Social
Services.
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Borderline
Brings
Out
Really
Dangerous
Emotions -
Rage,
Loneliness,
Isolation,
Numbness (and)
Emptiness.
OK, so isolation isn't really an emotion, but that's poetic license, right? I hope you enjoyed these poems. If you want, leave your own acrostic about your own diagnosis in the comments!
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