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Relapsed again. Tonight I’m just trying to focus on positive. Read More

Tags: drugs, nightmares, smoke, ptsd, mental-illness

So I just found these in my notes, and I’m fairly certain it’s from the wee hours of the morning because I hardly remember writing them but enjoy these rough draft song lyrics. They still have lots of work to make them an actual song but it still captures emotion… Read More

Tags: depression, music, lyrics, ptsd

A Vietnam veteran wrestles with a desperate situation. Read More

Tags: war, suicide, ptsd

Poem / Poetry

June 02, 2022

Reads: 151

Comments: 3

The Booksie Classic House

In this poem, I imagine depression as a hearth - fire and embers - important, dangerous, damaging and illuminating. The lantern is a reference to Diogenes of Sinope/Corinth, who was said to have carried a lantern during the day, claiming he was looking for an honest man. The lantern contains… Read More

Tags: depression, motivation, trauma, ptsd

|FEATURED| Nineteen-year-old Stella must overcome her fear of horses, in order to save her reputation as a Grove Station Farms riding instructor. *** Stella does not believe she will ever get back in the saddle, but that doesn't mean she still feels a connection with the farm where she teaches.… Read More

Tags: horses, college, teenager, trauma, ptsd

Just another poem on my health. This one more of my mental health surrounding PTSD. Read More

Tags: depression, illness, disability, suffering, ptsd

Samuel attends his last AA meeting Read More

Tags: depression, alcohol, ptsd

Poem / Literary Fiction

October 21, 2021

Reads: 2507

Comments: 7

Shelves: 1

The Review Chain House

TW/CW: poem covers PTSD which could be mildly triggering for some Read More

Tags: feminism, trauma, ptsd, patriarchy

Little did the asshole standing in front of me know how close he was about to be laid out on a chrome bed with a drain at the bottom downtown at the coroner’s office. Read More

Tags: ptsd, raiford-prison, pit-bulls

This is for Archia's mental health awareness contest. This is sort like a short flash fiction poem I wrote. It's about what it's like living with PTSD, the process of escaping, and I sort of compared it to a Grim fairy tale. Everything I wrote is brutally true and this… Read More

Tags: ptsd, young-adult, mental-health

Free writing about my trauma growing up and not disclosing my abusers. By doing this i keep my identity protected. Read More

Tags: trauma, bipolar, ptsd, mental-illness

Tags: war, emotional, combat, ptsd, vets

Tags: war, emotional, combat, ptsd, vets

A short story of a woman failed my modern day psychological medicine. Read More

Tags: depression, suicide, anxiety, ptsd, post-traumatic-stress-disorder

Short Story / Mystery and Crime

January 22, 2021

Reads: 467

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A war widow wrestles with grief, fear, and revenge. Read More

Tags: war, widow, ptsd, 1950s, 1940s

The feelings I personally felt along my dark road of psychological health. Edit:I did this on word pad and will use google docs in the future. Read More

Tags: depression, suicide, anxiety, ptsd, post-traumatic-stress-disorder

Tags: suicide, ptsd, mental-health

A short paper I constructed on PTSD and its effects on the senses. Read More

Tags: wellness, ptsd, mental-health

Poem / Poetry

August 07, 2020

Reads: 307

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

A poem inspired by 'Hell Broke Luce' by Tom Waits. Here's the YouTube link for anyone that wants to watch it - but it does carry advisory warnings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fju9o8BVJ8 Cover image: Steve Johnson on Unsplash. Read More

Tags: war, ptsd, song-inspired, tom-waits

In the late 1960s, a naval ship set out on a deployment that would change the lives of the sailors who were aboard. Secrets can affect the lives of those who unwittingly become the guardians of military top secrets. Many of those who sailed on the ship wee young and… Read More

Tags: ptsd, agent-orange

Book / Romance

July 01, 2020

Reads: 500

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Worthy of Romance? House

On the cusp of adulthood, Aurora met tragedy and darkness in a horrifying car crash. Death snatched her mom and sister away, destroying her family in a heartbeat. In its wake, it left her alive, but barely living; her only means of surviving includes copious amounts of Percocet and Xanax.… Read More

Tags: romance, ptsd, mental-health, drug-addiction, friends-to-lovers

just a little poem I wrote. I felt like this works as a way to get across something I've been thinking about. People often seem to discount either their own or others feelings by saying "other people have it worse" and while that is true, it is no reason not… Read More

Tags: depression, pain, trauma, ptsd, traumatic-events

Poem / War and Military

February 04, 2020

Reads: 580

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Shell shock, as it was known as back then, was a common problem for soldiers returning from France during the First World War. Another issue, however, was that it was not understood anywhere near as much as it is now, and soldiers didn't receive any proper treatment for it. Read More

Tags: war, ptsd, shell-shock, world-war-one

For friends and loved ones of people who suffer with PTSD Read More

Tags: issues, therapy, ptsd, blockage, phycological

Self study analysis of phycological blockage yet resolved. Read More

Tags: issues, therapy, ptsd, blockage, phycological

Short Story / Non-Fiction

September 28, 2019

Reads: 1056

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Unable to process all of the lies in my life, i attempted to take my own life. So here is my truth, here is what i felt and what broke me. Read More

Tags: life, pain, suicide, trauma, ptsd

Short Story / War and Military /

August 13, 2019

Reads: 2557

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Veterans House

Algiers, Algeria. I asked him how a country could have a city named the same thing as the country, but he ignored me. He was smoking an ugly smelling foreign cigarette and wearing a pair of pants that were bloused into shiny black combat boots. Paratrooper boots. Read More

Tags: veterans, ptsd, algiers

Short Story / War and Military

August 10, 2019

Reads: 797

Comments: 1

Shelves: 2

The Veterans House

Combat veteran comes home, but something doesn't come back with him...and yet something new does. Read More

Tags: vietnam, combat, marines, ptsd, 2001

A short story, my first attempt at writing a first person character. Read More

Tags: war, wife, letter, ptsd, darla

taken from my book, "Different_Results! PLEASE!!!!!" Read More

Tags: ptsd, chronic_paranoid_schizophrenia, dissociative_identity_disorder, about-kelly_jean_rice, bi-polar_disorder_type_1

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