Loneliness despair

Doesn’t anyone care

Please help me I pray

As I face another day

Isolation and hurt

But I am looked at like dirt

Not many are at ease

With this non-contagious disease

My illness is blind

So I am left behind

I don’t have cancer

So I must be an attention-seeking chancer

Next time you choose to ignore

Please notice me I applaud

A kind word for a person with a broken mind

Is more precious than gold

For my illness is real and I do feel. Have you guessed who I am, I am someone who cares for and lives with someone with a mental health condition and there is still a lot of single-minded ignorance that surrounds the whole aspect of mental illness.

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