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With physical illness there is usually something significant to focus on in helping to provide a cure, or even just a way of mitigating the problem. With mental illness there may be side effects like ticks or even more severe symptoms but can they always be reliably traced back to the root cause? It is no good thinking the problem is all in the mind, it may be but what can be done to actually help a person deal with it? It is no use whatsoever to say, pull yourself together, if the person could do that they would have done so and no one would be the wiser about their problem. Depression destroys utterly, it is insidious and impossible to mount a defense against. This is where people need true friends, not those fair weather types that disappear when things get awkward or even tough.

nd to make it even challenging

to be gifted bright

everyone just wants a piece of

u....and half the time the creative

part of madness makes people

unique...

belief in God did not cure me of

the malady

nor the rivers of medications ive

already tried with countless pyschiatrists

doctors..

the counselling helped much and greatly

the meds to their thing

but in the end we are left dealing

with our own paths.trails

which are not often easy

as some would want...

a lot of people struggling with this are gone

and the righteous world look down

on those afflicted....

finding fault to fire and not hire

and surviving on pensions

they grind and groan about the lazy

slackers...when the plant shut down

the look on their faces told me it all

then came their breakdowns

so its not easy

but some have it all their life so they

know this jungle...

its beauty and horrors

going upriver is work

plain and simple

but in the end the glory and the joy

given in small wonderments are gift

enough...

Author's Note

With physical illness there is usually something significant to focus on in helping to provide a cure, or even just a way of mitigating the problem. With mental illness there may be side effects like ticks or even more severe symptoms but can they always be reliably traced back to the root cause? It is no good thinking the problem is all in the mind, it may be but what can be done to actually help a person deal with it? It is no use whatsoever to say, pull yourself together, if the person could do that they would have done so and no one would be the wiser about their problem. Depression destroys utterly, it is insidious and impossible to mount a defense against. This is where people need true friends, not those fair weather types that disappear when things get awkward or even tough.