She’s not an easy person to live with. At home she follows me from room to room. When I go out she tags along: to the college where I work as a library assistant, to the supermarket where I buy my single serve ready meals, to the cemetery where I put flowers on my mother’s [...]
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Forgotten
I’m sitting on a single bed with pounding heart and aching head. My memory’s stuck – it won’t rewind. I haven’t lost my mind. The décor’s apple-green and chrome. Wherever I am, it isn’t home. They say I’m free but I feel confined. I haven’t lost my mind. The pills they make me take are [...]
