Poetry Lovers by B.Demaere

No need to apologize to a dead person that was overcome by addictions or someone who just committed suicide. Maybe people apologize to loved ones who have passed away to deal with their own grief or to appease their own guilt.  Nevertheless, what's the point? Help was just not there when that person deserved it. Many people with addiction and mental illness feel that way.  Where is all the help that, "they 'promised' me?" Is your life so important that someone else's doesn't matter? How can you help someone in need? 1) Listen without judging (important).  They won't come back if you judge 2) Just be a friend (you might be the only one)' 3) Keep it confidential 4) Take 'concrete' steps to help  (Actually do something for that person) 5) It's just too easy to give up on someone who has 'problems') (I am just writing this post in response to a tweet I just read, it troubled me. Many people are just 'there for you', but not ...

We each fight our own battles, I guess.  They just come with different intensity.  Most of us though don't fight the battle almost to the point of death when you have to decide between life and death. I believe my mental illness did not start when it was detected and identified as a mental illness.  Mental illness was unheard of in my days.  In the 1960's I didn't hear a word about it.  Just my mother repeating the words of the teachers to her, "Your child is very slow in school" or "Your child is so quiet", which is probably abnormal to a teacher, I understand.  I went to countless EEG, that were a lot more painful and longer than they are now let me tell you.  A lot more torturous, imagine having little blocks of metal (it felt like metal) press against your cranium with a rubber helmet for 40 min.  As a child it is painful!  I had those supposedly imaginary epilepsy and convulsion.  The real one happened at birth and according to my m...

I don't know if my mental illness has anything to do with it or just the fact that I am human,  I have always struggled with changes in my life.  I also have a tendency to get fixated on a certain pattern of doing things and I am not so willing to give it up. I have found over the years with the events of life that life is to be expected to be filled with changes.  With lots of changes. I do have a lot of concerns for a lot of things and my environment affects me a lot.  Lately, I have really been concerned with the rise of violence and rage in our countries, Canada and USA and other countries as well which could be linked to mental illness unchecked and undiagnosed.  It's alarming too.  Plus the drop in sales of deodorants really bothers me.  Who wants to be in a stinky house with a bunch of adults...and teenagers sweating.  I am sorry I didn't want to include teenagers because they get picked on all the time. I feel sorry for them.  Also th...

Success can be define in different ways.  For many, to be the next supermodel well trimmed attraction is what success is.  For others, another day living on earth is the attraction of success. Success means different things to different people.  Right now! Mental illness or not weight loss should be a priority but it's not.  To be healthy is.  To be weightless is not a sign of good health tough it's an obsession.  This world and everywhere you look around is obsessed with weight.  So much time and money is spend on losing weight and we consumers fall for it.  The only reason sometimes is to be healthy.  Walking should be fun and not a duty.  Sports should be fun, not slavery. We are obviously listening to our own heart and want to have that 'feeling good' feeling but that can be temporary as any weight lost is gained again in a vicious circle. The actual vicious circle is not weight loss and then weight gain but that indispensable feelin...