The ABC's of Mental Illness
/*Trigger Warning
A - Anxiety
Anxious animals apt at accentuating angst, apprehension, and annoyance.
B - BPD
Borderline bodies berating buddies based on biased beliefs.
C - Crisis Plan
Critical contracts created to consistently control crisis conundrums.
D - Depression
Dark days diabolically dictated by dubious and delusional diatribes.
E - Eating Disorder
Every edible entry erroneously examined, entirely eroding elation.
F - Fatigue
Floundering, flopping and feeling fried, with fleeting fierceness forcing forward fixes.
G - Gambling
Gluttonous gaming gods grabbing guy’s gold, gutting glorious goals.
H - Hoarding
Heedless of his hoard he haplessly hastens his having of a hundred more holdings in his home.
I - Insomnia
Intermittent issues impeding interests, intelligence and insights.
J - Jaded
Justifying judgements that don’t jive as just joking and joining in with the jerky jesting.
K - Kleptomania
Knaves kidnapping kingdoms knowing karmas coming to KO their kink.
L - Lame
Lonely, laden, and lambasted, lost in a labyrinth of languish and laughter.
M - Meds
Medication makes melancholy minds mostly manageable.
N - Narcissism
Neglectful narratives with narrow niceties never noticing normal-natured neighbours.
O - OCD
Obvious overthinking obliterating one’s options, ostensively obscuring optimism.
P - Psychosis
Plain pills placating problematic perceptions, producing pleasant personalities.
Q - Quandary
The quintessential quandary; to be quiet, quirky, queasy or a quitter.
R - Respite
Rest and relaxation resulting in radiant reductions in relationship rundowns.
S - Self Harm
Silently suffering, she slices skin and swallows serious serums.
T - Trauma
Terrifying thunder taking a terrible toll, until time totals thought.
U - Untreated
Unfortunately ultimate unhappiness is upon us, unless we use unconventional unguents.
V - Visibility
Vigorously vocalising our varied invisible viruses invalidates vulgar vitriol.
W - Wellness
Wise worriers work for wellness with whatever willpower we wield.
X - X-rays
Xrays, examinations, explanations and excuses, just expectations for the unexplainable.
Y - Yo-yoing
Yelling a yarn of yearning, for the yeses and yeahs of yesteryear.
Z - Zombie
Zonked zombies on zinc and Zen, totally zapped before the zenith zooms.
This poem is inspired by the book, ‘How To Write Evocative Poetry’.
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