Mental Health
Poetry about the mind on difficult days—anxiety, depression, fear, exhaustion, insomnia, isolation, and the quiet work of continuing anyway.
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Sam Cortland’s courage becomes a mirror for anxiety: bravery was never the absence of fear, only the choice to keep moving with it.
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Old houses, old murders, and fictional ghosts are easier company than the thoughts that refuse to explain themselves.
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Some nights the only way to quiet my own world is to disappear into somebody else’s until morning.
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“I’m okay” becomes a fluent survival language for pain that feels too heavy, complicated, or burdensome to explain out loud.
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Fiction offers doors I can open without fear—and monsters I can turn off when reality starts closing in.
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An unreliable fictional mind mirrors anxiety’s cruelest question: can I trust what my own brain is telling me?
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A mind displayed like art would look tragic from a distance, until someone stayed long enough to notice the survival inside every crack.
