Mental Illness Poems

Mental Illness Poems

Poems about Mental Health

Discovering you suffer from a mental illness can be devastating. When faced with this challenge, most people work hard to pursue treatment and inform themselves about the disease. Even still, keeping a positive outlook and attempting to maintain good communication with your loved ones can become extremely challenging. Sometimes, despite your best efforts, you may feel deep sadness and frustration because of your illness. Such feelings are normal, and should not be repressed. In fact, expressing them to a close friend or through writing can help you to cope, and even thrive, despite your mental illness.

56 Poems about Anxiety and Panic Disorders

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  1. 1. The Room Of My Life

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    Here,
    in the room of my life
    the objects keep changing.
    Ashtrays to cry into,

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  3. 2. Just Wait For The Sun


    • By Lisa Marks
    • Published by Family Friend Poems March 2020 with permission of the Author.

    When everything's darkness
    And you feel so alone,
    When the rain doesn't stop
    And you can't make it home,

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    Wow! This is an amazing poem! I love how the poem just flows and makes so much of sense. Thanks for sharing this beautiful poem. I know you posted this like 2 years ago but I hope you're...

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  5. 3. The Monster


    • By Olivia M Likens
    • Published by Family Friend Poems September 2018 with permission of the Author.

    Dear Anxiety,

    When they ask me what I am afraid of,
    I lie.

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    I am a person with worry, fear, doubt, and with grace. I worry for those who will be hurt by me, those who will be disappointed in me, those who will care for me but leave me, and those who I...

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  6. 4. Breathe


    • By Tiffaney L. Ganci
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2018 with permission of the Author.

    Panic, worry, darkness closing in around me.
    These are some of the words I could use to describe my anxiety,
    but nothing I can say could speak of its entirety,
    as I cry internally thinking I've lost my sanity.

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    I really like this poem. It explains everything that I'm feeling. I feel misunderstood by my wife, family, friends, and co workers. This poem helps me in ways that you will never know.

  7. 5. Signed, Your Mind


    • By Emma
    • Published by Family Friend Poems December 2015 with permission of the Author.

    Get dressed, love.
    You're going to be late.
    You look at yourself in the mirror,
    The one you really hate.

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    I'm a 15-year-old female who was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and severe depression two years ago. I love the way this poem expresses how I feel almost every day. It's hard to get...

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  8. 6. Now You've Recovered


    • By Charles A Cino
    • Published by Family Friend Poems November 2016 with permission of the Author.

    When you recover, what will you do?
    When you recover, will you still be you?
    Will you be stronger, will you be new,
    When you recover from what you've been through?

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    I've been to hell and back, as a survivor of CSA. Your poem inspired me in such a deep way; the healing process strips us of our former identities and we stand empty and alone, trying to...

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  9. 7. Mysterious Pain


    • By Peggy Stewart
    • Published by Family Friend Poems July 2011 with permission of the Author.

    With her head hung low
    and nowhere to go,

    she can't explain

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    No one understands what I am suffering from. My new doctor has decided I am taking a far too dangerous drug, so he is weaning me off. I must suffer again for the length of this weaning...

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  10. 8. Another Breakdown


    • By Shaydee A. Ault
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2018 with permission of the Author.

    It's hard when you're always lying,
    Always hiding the way you feel.
    Losing your sight on truthful words,
    Forgetting what is real.

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    Thanks for writing this touching poem! I have struggled my way through so many things that nobody ever cared to ask me about. I had a very troubling childhood and I still suffer from it. The...

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  11. 9. My Repossessed Hope


    • By Evangeline King
    • Published by Family Friend Poems January 16, 2023 with permission of the Author.

    Gasping for air
    I cling, I cling
    to whatever's left
    to anything

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  12. 10. Love Is Patient

    • By Haileigh B. Johnston
    • Published by Family Friend Poems June 2020 with permission of the Author.

    You tell me every day
    How much I mean to you.
    Now it's time for me to say
    What I know is absolutely true.

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  13. 11. We Couldn't See

    • By Brian E Pardee
    • Published by Family Friend Poems September 2017 with permission of the Author.

    Brian and I were polar opposites; he was loud and wild while I was more quiet and tame.
    Despite our differences, both family and friends said we often looked and acted exactly the same.

    I never understood it. My skin was unremarkable, nothing more than the average bruise.

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    I've been asked about this poem a lot. While I was once told I had a Dissociative Disorder, this poem's describing how I personally identify with things. I feel like there's two parts of me...

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  14. 12. Struggling To Breathe

    • By Sima
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2021 with permission of the Author.

    I'm feeling so scared,
    I can't breathe but I must.
    Thinking so many thoughts,
    Trying so hard to trust.

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    I'm almost 58 & feel this way daily! I have severe PTSD from a life of every kind of abuse you can think of & many you can't. Have had chronic pain since 1998 (24/7!), Fibromyalgia, severe...

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  15. 13. Uninvited Guest

    • By Vicky
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2007 with permission of the Author.

    I'm feeling broken down, my body aches
    My heart, it bleeds from past mistakes
    Can't stop the tears; they fall like rain
    The words are spinning 'round my brain

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    The poet has penned down his pains in a truly pictorial ways that draws the picture of his mental condition of broken heart in the mind of the readers.

  16. 14. Where Am I?

    Is there anyone there
    to help me see,
    help me remember,
    remember to be me?

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    I am 13 years old and I have anxiety and depression. Being a teenage girl is scary enough. Imagine sitting in bed every night rethinking your whole life and worrying about things that don't...

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  17. 15. My Not-Addiction

    • By Sydney W.
    • Published by Family Friend Poems February 2014 with permission of the Author.

    It's not an addiction,
    Really it's not.
    But that mirror,
    It's a source of affliction.

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    I have also struggled with my eating, and I loved the way you depicted anorexia through your imagery. I loved your stanzas about the scales and the mirror. With an eating disorder, no matter...

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  18. 16. Baby Blues

    • By Katie Q. McKee
    • Published by Family Friend Poems November 2017 with permission of the Author.

    No words can describe what I feel when I look at you.
    The glory of your smile brings light to this place.
    So simple yet so impossible to understand.
    Every move you make is taken in with grace.

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    This is exactly how I feel. I have always suffered with mental health issues, but when my partner left me last year, I fell to pieces. Even more than a year on, I struggle every day with...

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  19. 17. Broken

    • By Tonya
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2015 with permission of the Author.

    If I turned around and walked away, would you notice I'm gone?
    Would you even care?
    When you look at me, do you see the smile on my face,
    Or do you see the tears I fight to hold inside?

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    Beautifully written right from the heart. Carry on telling people how you feel; don't keep things bottled up like my son did. Unfortunately, he's no longer with us. See my poem, "Jonathan's...

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  20. 18. Life Is An Illusion

    • By Trisha
    • Published by Family Friend Poems July 2015 with permission of the Author.

    Surrounded by people yet all alone
    Trapped within this solitary zone
    A world where chaos and hate overtake
    Every bit of happiness that may try to escape

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    I was moved by this poem because I believe left alone with your own thoughts can be suicidal. You can feel like you are not a part of the human race. That you are only existing. But I've come...

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  21. 19. Finding A Voice

    • By Emily E. Williams
    • Published by Family Friend Poems May 2020 with permission of the Author.

    I scream, yet I am not heard.
    I try to talk, but my mouth won't open.
    I am not myself anymore,
    but I can tell that to no one.

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  22. 20. Suicide Note

    • By Stephen K. Treharne
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2021 with permission of the Author.

    A tortured mind for twenty years,
    now I write my final words of life.
    Every line soaked with
    sorrowed ink; I cannot hide how

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