A PIP INTO THE RABBIT HOLE

If you have felt sad and thought life is meaningless

If you have felt so down that you wished you died

If you have ever felt time crawl and the pain in your heart never go

Then you have felt what someone who is mentally unwell feels

If you have felt scared

And wished that the ground would open up and swallow you

If you have felt like the whole world is looking at you with gnawing eyes

Like the eyes are eating your flesh a way

You have felt what someone with mental illness feels

If you have felt too happy

Then suddenly too sad for no reason

If you have felt that no one can understand what you are going through

If you have felt the happiness scare you and the sadness cut through you

You have felt what a mentally ill person feels

If you have felt out of your own control

And the desires of your heart are out of your will

You feel too weak against compulsion

That bottle of liquor having more attraction than your strength to resist

You try to keep off but you can’t understand why you can’t walk away

You have certainly felt what a mentally ill person feels

If you have watched a movie and seen the ghosts of the film go with you to bed

If you have had that nightmare that makes you wish never to sleep again

If you have ever seen something so ghastly that you would not get out of your mind as soon as you wish

If you have ever been through something you will never forget

You have felt what someone who is mentally unwell feels

What if it were you whose pains and heart aches would not go

What if it were you who saw ghost of a trauma and they would never leave you

What if it were you who the eyes of the world tore through your skin

What if it were you who never had strength to overcome the games of your mind

Would you laugh?

Yet it always seems so easy to cast a stone

To judge people enduring their pain

To condemn uncontrollable compulsion

Yet this pains could easily last in any of us

Protect the mentally ill

You could possibly be protecting your future self