mental health – Page 9 – FEMININE COLLECTIVE

MOOD

October 19, 2018May 26, 2023 Dori Owen

she fears the dark as it consumes her slowly and then all at once trapping her in its never ending quest to seize her mind and bury her soul. she’s trapped inside just a girl lost in a mood maelstrom waiting to capture back her soul. she knows she understands Read more

Atrophy

October 9, 2018October 7, 2018 Paakhi Bhatnagar

The gravel in her tongue atrophies along with the rest of her body, lurid and every bite in is just another bite out. There is a road that travels down her throat and each tongue that rides it through feels the sick burn of falling over cold, tiled floors kneeling Read more

The “Yes” Woman

September 16, 2018 Stephanie Ortez

“It’s all about you, how can you be living a life filled with such self-indulgence ignoring the rest of us mortals?” I could not tell you how many times this mere thought had crossed my mind in the last couple years. Not long ago, I was accused of such indolence, Read more

Cancer Season

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018 Paakhi Bhatnagar

I felt it as the first wave crashed upon me- the water percolating on my skin forming dews, resting around my chest. I felt it as it drowned my throat and I wished that it would drown me too. But since the summer of 2016, I have learnt how to Read more

When I Was Young

July 27, 2018May 7, 2019 Jacqueline Cioffa

If I could tell that young girl anything, I would tell her that no matter what horrific obstacles life throws at her, no matter the lowest depths of pain and insanity, or the highest highs, she’d manage somehow. No matter if she was rich or poor, single, famous, divorced, abused, Read more

I See Her

July 24, 2018March 17, 2019 Julie Anderson

I see her wavering on the cusp. I see her reckless ways, I see the myriad of her facets, She is a diamond with serrated seams I see how she responds to the language of humanity, words coat her, they drip sweetness into her soul I see how you would Read more

FOR LEASE

July 24, 2018July 24, 2018 Brianna Scott

Have you ever felt like your body was a commodity Maybe they just want what they think they deserve, Fuck everyone else had a piece of her first, So why can’t I? Why can’t you Just treat me like a human Or leave me alone You just want me out Read more

On Omniscience and Decay

July 17, 2018July 17, 2018 Paakhi Bhatnagar

It is excruciatingly painful to be self-aware – to know your own flaws to the see the morbid direction in which you are willingly walking to be a slave to old, destructive habits. It’s almost like I am a corpse, you would have to be a moldy, mourning cadaver to Read more