"You can always come to us if you need any help.
You don't need to be ashamed or feel like you're weak when you ask for help,"
is what all of them say.
But how do I tell them that I have a fault within me?
A fault that keeps me from asking for help,
a fault that makes me feel like a burden for being in their life.
Yet when I hit rock bottom and go to them,
they say, "Oh, come on, you can do that yourself."
And maybe it's people like them
that make me feel like I am at fault.
Perhaps the fault is them.
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Trapped in my own head
PoetryShe is an outcast. She finds it easier to express what she feels in the form of writing. Whether it is poems, letters or long texts. These are poems that she writes trying to describe how it feels to live with certain mental health issues, in a worl...
