stigma question and poetry writing

The poetry part is because i want to know has writing poetry help get out your experiences and feelings. I write poetry myself. I would love to see other people poetry. when I wrote my poetry it comes from deep inside of me. Something that needs get out. Thank you for reading this post.

I haven't written poetry in ages, but I do journal, it is soothing to me, and like you said gets your experiences and feelings out there,

its a way where we can say what we are really thinking and we dont have to make it pretty or beautiful but it is full of emosion.

Do youknow that most of the best comedians and poetry and song wrighters are actually depressants or bipolar?? When i found out this fact it reinforced my idea's that self expression is so rewarding and really healing.

I started wrighting poetry around the time i was first diagnosed with depression later turned in to bipolar group 2. My friends and i would sit down passing around the illegals and well read out our poetry and try to figure out what each other were trying to say and what we were really expressing.

I absolutely loved it and do really miss it as i have now moved miles and miles away from them all but we all still do write well those of us that are still here anyway.

I have often felt stigma when i do decide to tell others of my condition but at the end of the day i stick by my opinions of 1) I didnt cause it , it was caused by circumstances not me and 2) Out of all the people with menatl issues i have seeked help and i am facing it not hiding from it and taking drugs still trying to pretend im normal.. I mean what is normal anyway?? normal is what we think society wants us to be but at the end of the day look at our leaders of the world if they are considered normal im proud to be a fruit cake lol.

Wrighting emosions often helps us figure out our triggers and help us work thru our emosions when we just cant talk to others for whatever reason.

We often forget why we were angry or fustrated or we can come up with the most encouraging poetry because thats what we really need to have is hope and encouragement.

I say go for it!!! and forget about stigma there is always something in everyone's life that causes them to face it some time or another ok

chin up and start wrighting!!!

marsha

ps... i look forward to maybe seeing some posted on here....

I just love this, reminds me of the time I asked what "normal" was, and ended up with a chart and graph lecture..lol, half way into it, told them forget it, I would be happy with being "abby-normal" The lecture boiled down to it is what the majority of the people do, so that is considered normal, if the bulk of people ate other people, that would be considered normal, they are just now coming to understand that environments people are raised in constitute their normal for them.

Reaching the indestructible desire

My life force is on fire

Solemnity my will inspire

I've taken it to the limit here

Listen now and give an ear

Placed like a bird on a wire

Circumstantial evidence most dire

I need a second opinion for hire

No talk too fancy for the end of it

Where I go there is no threat

But here I can't get it to quit

Folks now jeer and smear and leer

Why must I live my life in fear?

Join me now and take a sit

Realization makes me want to spit

Retaliation is all I get

Depression again I am under

Everything I do just a blunder

Gasping for air my life asunder

Waiting long for the atmosphere to clear

The time approaching almost near

Already left you behind in timely dunder

Placated now but my heart like thunder

When I'm gone will it be any wonder?

By: Paul Masterwolf, May 2006

cj