Bulimia so isn't a long haired pretty girl bending over a toilet with a tragically beautiful face on.It's a puffer miserable face with vomit drilling from its chin and a fucking nose bleed.
Anorexia isn't a slim figure refusing a cupcake .
It's hair growing over your freezing malnourished body.
Depression isn't a model with running mascara starting into the sunset .
It's staring at the ceiling at 4 in the morning with burning eyes because you can't find the motivation to close them.
Self harm isn't lovely boys kissing your arms telling you your still beautiful.
It's nasty fucking scars that will be there forever and showers that sting .
Panic attacks aren't burying your face into your lovers chest and them telling you everything will be okay .
It's feeling out of control and like oxygen had been taken out of you.
Mental illness aren't beautiful.
They don't make you special and make people suddenly care about you .
There's monsters that destroy lives .
So stop taking them lightly and promoting them to impressionable teenagers in the Internet .
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In too deep -Depression and selfharm
PoetryA collection of poems and quotes about self harm ,suicide ,anxiety and depression . Number 14 in poetry -Jul 2016 Number 11 In poetry -August 2016