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Tag: Mental Health

Letting Eve in (Draft).

December 30, 2021 Lucy38 Comments

My hero turned out to be a monster, it sinks further in my chest; frail leaves and empty words spill—spill

Posted in Poetry, ProseTagged Creative Writing, Experimental, Free-Verse, Identity, Literature, Love, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Prose-Poetry, Suicide, Writing

O’ I had bad dreams.

December 15, 2021 Lucy16 Comments

O I had bad dreams; I was wooded into the sand, lady, I am dead from you all

Posted in PoetryTagged Bandmates, Creative Writing, Free-Verse, Literature, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Prose, Prose-Poetry, Writing

Some demonstrations of sorrow (Draft).

December 14, 2021 Lucy48 Comments

I found a dead deer in the road at the same time my dad told me not to look;

Posted in Poetry, ProseTagged Alcohol, Coping, Creative Writing, dverse, Free-Verse, Literature, Love, Mental Health, Poetry, Prose, Prose-Poetry, Writing

Do not tell me what I was.

December 13, 2021 Lucy65 Comments

Do not tell me what I was to redraw that cold war face, to see a woman of what I bleed

Posted in Poetry, ProseTagged Anger, Creative Writing, dverse, Family, Free-Verse, Literature, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Prose, Prose-Poetry, Writing

Band Rehearsal Chronicles #1.

August 17, 2021 Lucy26 Comments

I lost myself in the music—I often did, just like when my guitar strap fell off while in the middle of a song we were playing once. I didn’t stop a beat as I got down on my knees to keep playing.

Posted in Prose, Stories/ExcerptsTagged Band, Creative Writing, Depression, Literary, Literature, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Prose, Social Anxiety, Story, Writing

Alive (to drown).

July 14, 2021August 6, 2021 Lucy46 Comments

You are a fool, you are death, where eyes decipher the plea in the thorns of a mother’s tree

Posted in PoetryTagged Colors, Death, Depression, Grief, Literature, Love, Mental Health, Poetry, Winter, Writing

The child inside.

May 31, 2021August 5, 2021 Lucy41 Comments

inhabiting a box the pensive death-maddening burdens a heart under the moon

Posted in PoetryTagged Creative Writing, dverse, Free-Verse, Literature, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Prose, Prose-Poetry, Writing

A thorn in her side.

May 30, 2021August 5, 2021 Lucy43 Comments

If I was the poet with a thorn in my side, I was; I brought another drop from the gardens on these hands and this body of stone;

Posted in ProseTagged Creative Writing, dverse, Free-Verse, Literature, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Prose-Poetry, Writing

she takes.

May 16, 2021August 5, 2021 Lucy23 Comments

if shyness shamed the oceans slaughting a bag of bones, it lain a stentorian love if shyness shamed she recalls in deathly naught the beguile of roses, adulterated by her fingers, written in verses yet morose

Posted in ProseTagged Dark, Depression, Literature, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Prose-Poetry, Writing

in ashes I subside.

February 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Lucy12 Comments

stalk, the shaking rain of white lies split in my head whored forgotten to snakes;

Posted in PoetryTagged Creative Writing, Free-Verse, Literature, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Prose, Prose-Poetry, Writing

to in a dream.

July 19, 2020June 19, 2021 Lucy24 Comments

has died, beautiful dreamer

Posted in PoetryTagged Family, Free-Verse, Grief, Literature, Love, Mental Health, Micropoetry, Poetry, Prompt, Writing

“Silence” by FromtheHeart.

June 12, 2020June 19, 2021 Lucy3 Comments

When the quiet hits the room Like a silent bomb, it arrives And in the silence- a lonely feel It comes in a pretty disguise.

Posted in L.W.W.O.H. Submissions PostsTagged Depression, Literature, Lonely, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Realistic, Reflection, Sad, Writing

Hey.

June 5, 2020June 19, 2021 Lucy26 Comments

you can never hear my voice, but you will see my eyes shift to the ground spending reflection—who are you, you, you are little known, and that’s okay, as a faceless shore, we do not need to be known.

Posted in PoetryTagged Death, Depression, Grief, Literature, Love, Mental Health, Poetry, Slam Poem, Slam Poetry, Writing

Forgotten (to silence).

May 24, 2020June 19, 2021 Lucy37 Comments

Stare at the ceiling, I am an afterthought, dreams cast forgotten memories in twilight’s tongue rivaling alone

Posted in PoetryTagged Art, Grief, Hope, Literature, Memory, Mental Health, Music, Poetry, PTSD, Writing

Look at all the eyes.

May 15, 2020June 19, 2021 Lucy44 Comments

Look at all the eyes
of humanity and light
cry into blood-welling
forgotten in unbridled free verse;

Posted in PoetryTagged Depression, Faith, Gothic, Grief, Life, Literature, Mental Health, Nature, Poetry, Writing

Eyes.

April 30, 2020June 19, 2021 Lucy29 Comments

Solitude
arrayed in language
unnoticed in its death,
as the leaves survive
the siege of winter

Posted in PoetryTagged Death, Depression, Grief, Life, Literature, Love, Mental Health, NaPoWriMo, Poetry, Writing
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