The Language of Mental Illness

The Language of Mental Illness

You speak and no one hears you

so you act

Until they do.

Stakes higher every time.

That's how you yell,

because they only hear physical things,

only recognize physical things,

only know physical things.

So you

cut

or you

hurt

or you

Kill.

Physical things.

Things they can see.

“The problem with mental illness is that it's not physical.”

Do they know how ironic that statement is?

There is nothing more physical,

more dangerous,

than mental illness.

Nothing.

They can scan my heart,

see what's broken,

operate to fix it.

They can't scan my mind and know what I'm thinking.

They're not listening

and then I become quiet.

and they have no idea

where

those thoughts have gone.