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Behind the Ghost Metropolis: Contemporary Poetry on Mental Health, Resilience, and Finding Hope
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10/14/2024
Not sure if any of my followers remember me (if so, say “hi”!), but yeah, I’m back, baby!
To those of you who don’t know who I am, here’s some basic info:
* I’m a manic-depressive Snufkin wandering this land of promise and tears.
* I write about the dark side of the mind (and occasionally the moon, with a fantasy twist), millennials, mental health, travel, hope (which I don’t think is for sissies any Read more of this blog post »
To those of you who don’t know who I am, here’s some basic info:
* I’m a manic-depressive Snufkin wandering this land of promise and tears.
* I write about the dark side of the mind (and occasionally the moon, with a fantasy twist), millennials, mental health, travel, hope (which I don’t think is for sissies any Read more of this blog post »
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“Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are. Because my bipolar went untreated for so long, I spent many years looking in the mirror and seeing a person I did not recognize or understand. Not only did bipolar rob me of my sanity, but it robbed me of my ability to see beyond the space it dictated me to look. I no longer could tell reality from fantasy, and I walked in a world no longer my own.”
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"This book of poems invokes a lot of emotions. It is written bravely from a place of deep sadness and still manages to give hints of hopefullness. It is heartbreakingly honest. Volumes are expressed with very few words. It is very touching."
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Through an edgy, unflinching lens, Behind the Ghost Metropolis offers a raw exploration of the human condition not soon to be forgotten. Annette's debut poetry collection draws readers into a spellbinding web of dejection, mental fragility, hope, and" Read more of this review » |
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“All these bad experiences that we go through, they don't just disappear. We carry them our whole life trying to forget, escaping in habits, addictions, hate, toxic relationships. But what we don't know is that by doing so we let them stay alive. We water them like withered flowers and we hang onto them to justify our mistakes and failures.”
― Train to the Edge of the Moon
― Train to the Edge of the Moon
“What's the point of wandering?
to find a better place?
a home?
But the loneliness will always capture me
in its claws
of no tomorrow”
― Train to the Edge of the Moon
to find a better place?
a home?
But the loneliness will always capture me
in its claws
of no tomorrow”
― Train to the Edge of the Moon
“Sometimes you're trying so hard to get your life together and still it's not enough, everything is falling apart. What to do, you're asking. Just keep going through hell for yourself, not for everyone else. Richer with that wisdom, I will build my happiness from nothing. I will rise from the dust. And I will do it on my own. I will live for myself and I won’t look at the others.”
― Train to the Edge of the Moon
― Train to the Edge of the Moon
“Wandering"
What’s the point of wandering?
to find a better place?
a home?
The loneliness will always capture me
in its claws
of no tomorrow”
― Behind the Ghost Metropolis: Contemporary Poetry on Mental Health, Resilience, and Finding Hope
What’s the point of wandering?
to find a better place?
a home?
The loneliness will always capture me
in its claws
of no tomorrow”
― Behind the Ghost Metropolis: Contemporary Poetry on Mental Health, Resilience, and Finding Hope
“I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Just like the Cheshire cat, someday I will suddenly leave, but the artificial warmth of my smile, that phony, clownish curve, the kind you see on miserably sad people and villains in Disney movies, will remain behind as an ironic remnant. I am the girl you see in the photograph from some party someplace or some picnic in the park, the one who is in fact soon to be gone. When you look at the picture again, I want to assure you, I will no longer be there. I will be erased from history, like a traitor in the Soviet Union. Because with every day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible...”
― Prozac Nation
― Prozac Nation
“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to captivate others a felt certainty. There are interests found in uninteresting people. Sensuality is pervasive and the desire to seduce and be seduced irresistible. Feelings of ease, intensity, power, well-being, financial omnipotence, and euphoria pervade one's marrow. But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Memory goes. Humor and absorption on friends' faces are replaced by fear and concern. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-- you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.”
― An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
― An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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I like your quote.... sometimes that is the best thing to do when things get difficult, just get moving. : )
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