Just another silly author who publishes deeply personal literature regarding mental health and the human condition
Max Bemis by Emily Read is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 Who Is Max Bemis? Max Bemis, though still a stranger to me, is someone I’ve looked up to since I was thirteen years old.…Continue Reading
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.” — Will Durant (summarizing Aristotle)
Bloodlust I am passive; I can’t express my anger. it bottles up to burst; I put myself in danger. I can’t rely on self-harm: that never worked, but what is even stranger, is that despite the…Continue Reading
An overwhelming desire to no longer mask the pain
When I Hate Myself the urge to cut even 15 years later, anxiously persists. desperate in those moments: I sob and moan. I plead with God. for oh – how sometimes I wish that with…Continue Reading
Intrusive thoughts don't make the person
Caveman Contemplations though sick – I am true, brave & proud to admit that my gruesome hideously invasive & cave dwelling id … now only sometimes gouges me, soullessly, like ripping me from under astonished…Continue Reading
There are people and moments that will stay with us for as long as we live
In the poem, Nightmare of You, I explore what it was like to have unhealthily obsessed over what could and should have been after a breakup. Since having formed my website and other blogs, I’ve…Continue Reading
