Tag: #depression

• NaPoWriMo Day 25 – We’ll get through this

  

  Because it’s a Saturday, I have an (optional) prompt for you that takes a little time to work through — although you can certainly take short-cuts through it, if you like! The prompt, which you can find in its entirety here, was  developed by the poet and teacher Hoa Nguyen, asks you to use a long poem […]

  Smitha V

  April 26, 2020

  Poetry

  #coronadiaries, #coronatimes, #day25, #depression, #GloPoWriMo2020, #help, #inspiration, #lockdown, #lockdowndiaries, #motivation, #NaPoWriMo2020, #poem, #savetheworld, #smile, #together, #War, Poetry

• 3/3 : Tell Them. Show Them

  

  This is the third poem in the series on mental awareness. To read the previous 2, please click on the links below this poem. While its’ not easy being around someone going through depression, walking away may not be an solution. What seems like whining or cribbing may actually be something much more. So, if […]

  Smitha V

  October 17, 2019

  Poetry

  #acceptance, #bepositive, #depression, #inspiration, #life, #mentalhealth, #staystrong, #support, #truth, #westandwithyou, Poetry

• 2/3 : To You I Want to Say

  

  This is the second poem in the series of poems I have written for mental health awareness. To read the first, you can click on the link 1/3 :This Feeling The second poem in this series is titled, ‘To You I want to say‘    To you I want to say Pray each time you feel- […]

  Smitha V

  October 16, 2019

  Poetry

  #bepositive, #depression, #help, #inspiration, #life, #live, #mentalhealth, #motivation, #poem, #today, #truth, #yourenotalone, Poetry

• 1/3 :This Feeling

  

  Mental health illness affects a lot of people these days. Depression is on the rise amongst teens and adults. Depression is not a choice. It can happen to anybody. On account of the increasing number of cases and growing concern, the month of October has been earmarked to increase awareness on mental health. October 10th […]

  Smitha V

  October 15, 2019

  Experiences

  #creativewriting, #depression, #feelings, #help, #inspiration, #life, #mentalhealth, #mentalhealthawareness, #news, #poetry, #truth. #writing, Experiences

• NaPoWriMo: Day 18 – Forgotten

  

  Our optional prompt for the day takes its cue from how poetry can help us to make concrete the wild abstraction of a feeling like grief. “The Lost Pilot” does this, as does this poem by Victoria Chang, called “Obit.” In both poems, loss is made tangible. They take elusive, overwhelming feelings, and place them into the […]

  Smitha V

  April 18, 2019

  Poetry

  #awaittheend, #Day18, #death, #depression, #elegy, #forgotten, #GloPoWriMo2019, #life, #loneliness, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #Sorrow, #truth, Poetry