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What is depersonalization?
Did you know that there are actually 3 types of dissociative disorder, according to the DSM 5? Depersonalization-derealization disorder is one of them. I struggled most of my life with…
What Art is Teaching Me
I have needed this year's NaPoWriMo like no other. Here's a poem I thought might resonate with you, or even help if you are a recovering perfectionist like me! Art…
When someone you love has a mental illness and dies untreated
This post is for someone out there who is dealing with trauma grief, and for the one whose Google search "what it's like to find out your loved one had…
Truth as Bazinga (or, An Argument for Acceptance)
So in my favorite episode ofThe Big Bang Theory, Sheldon hasdisappeared in the middle of the night.Leonard leaves sleep to go get him from McDonalds. Upon arrival, he is pointed…
Reflected in the clouds
Future Memory and Using Poetry to Process Emotion
THE POEM Future Memoryby Kelly Hanwright Ive seen her again The ghost of a child running around this place in the yard An outcast with tangled hair and half a…
For Daughters of Trauma Moms
Mother's Day is this weekend and it's going to hurt like a bitch. I want to send this one out to all the daughters whose mothers left them with scars…
Letter to Schizophrenia
Letter to Schizophrenia from The Locust Years by Kelly Hanwright Sometimes I want to Ripdoors off their hinges Smashall the windows Crawlthrough blood Spurtingout my arteries. Red rage will keep…
Easter Storm
Image: Canva Easter Storm Easter morning.I feel it coming like the rumblingof a tombstone smashing into a skullthat symbolized death; a Sun rising likethe voices of 10,000angels chanting Holy, Holy,…
My first blackout poem!
Hello friends, for a change, here is my first ever attempt at a blackout poem (also called erasure poem)! I did this in a Chattanooga Writers' Guild workshop recently. I…
Disparity
I want to tastethe rain on my tongue but the rainhas no flavor. I don't have to have Covid to know that I'm sick. Once, I accepted illness, wore itlike…