Young Advocate’s Poetry Book Offers Mental Health Support And Outreach

Young Advocate’s Poetry Book Offers Mental Health Support And Outreach

If you have suffered from a mental illness, you know that although people say that mental health is only in the mind, so is everything else. Everything is in our heads, meaning that when you are depressed, every aspect of your experience is tainted by your sorrow.  That's why Aisha Tariqa Abdul Haqq is making her passionate poetic appeal that we take mental health care as seriously as we take broken bones and cancer.

Her two new poetry books, titled ‘Four Years in Chrysalis’ and ‘Acres of Shadow’, seek to challenge the pervasive stigma about mental illness that still exists in American society.  Her new poetry renders both the conception of mental health as inessential and ignorable, and the way this perception quickly crumbles when a significant event occurs from neglect of care that rocks a community.

The release of her new collections coincides with Mental Health Awareness Month, which takes place every May. This countrywide event offers you an opportunity to reach out to the community members whom you observe to be struggling and offer an ear and a hand.  With 1 in 5 American adults, some 53 million people, now experiencing depression or similar mental health struggles, Aisha Tariqa believes this May is the perfect time to show your compassion.

Her deeply powerful autobiographical poetry conveys to you her own experiences of suffering from depression and living with suicidal ideation. Her own struggle was compounded by that of a friend in her community who was also battling mental illness, and who ultimately ended their own life.  Aisha Tariqa wants to share some of her poetic words of empathy and outreach with you in the hope that they can connect with those who have shared in the burden of poor mental health. 

\"Psychosis is a stabbing in the back A shadow of normalcy My every day Just mere minutes from reality A horror story in my mind Second in and second out I am, often times, left panting for breathing At the lack of space between me and my thoughts Those thoughts...\" \"Those seething tar splattered things I reason with them But am left panicked still That they might be true A daunting story The thoughts might be true And if so, what kind of world am I living in? And the screams I feel rising in my chest...\"

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