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| poems of depression and loneliness: I Guess I Am Lonely... Sam Solomon, 2020-02-11 Written in the style of confessional poetry, i guess i am lonely? is a collection of poetry and prose designed to pull readers in with the author's powerful and honest bravery embedded on every page. This book takes readers on a journey of self-love, with an openly honest dialogue surrounding the pain and loneliness that comes from heartbreak. i guess i am lonely... is divided into four sections, each section serving a different purpose. Each poem can be read individually or as an entire sequence, destined to pull on heartstrings and enwrap readers into a story of inspiring self-acceptance while overcoming trauma and heartbreak. A transcendent journey of agony, recollection, awareness and rebirth. |
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| poems of depression and loneliness: Poems of Healing Karl Kirchwey, 2021-03-30 A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Lonely Robin Barratt, 2016-04-02 Featuring 118 contributions from 57 writers in 26 countries, with many of the contributions reflecting the diverse backgrounds and cultures of the writers, and all writing in their own unique style, LONELY - A Collection of Poetry and Prose on Loneliness and Being Alone, is an extraordinary, unique and eclectic mixture of both traditional and modern verse, and short prose, from writers around the world. Focusing on just about every aspect of loneliness and being alone, and covering topics as diverse as old age, bereavement, abandonment, divorce, entrapment, unrequited love, depression, trauma, failure and addiction, as well as the more abstract and esoteric, LONELY is already being acclaimed worldwide for its diversity and mix of writers and styles. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Depression & Other Magic Tricks Sabrina Benaim, 2020-07-26 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Runner-Up Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem Explaining My Depression to My Mother has become a cultural phenomenon with over 50,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. Andrea Gibson, author of Lord of the Butterflies writes I read this book on a day I couldn't get out of bed and it made me feel like I had a friend in the world...Simply put, this book disappears loneliness. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Please Come Off-Book Kevin Kantor, 2021-03-23 Please Come Off-Book queers the theatrical canon we all grew up with. Kantor critiques the treatment of queer figures and imagines a braver and bolder future that allows queer voices the agency over their own stories. Drawing upon elements of the Aristotelian dramatic structure and the Hero's Journey, Please Come Off-Book is both a love letter to and a scathing critique of American culture and the lenses we choose to see ourselves through. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: (Don't) Call Me Crazy Kelly Jensen, 2018-10-02 Who’s Crazy? What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when such a label gets attached to your everyday experiences? In order to understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there’s no single definition of crazy, there’s no single experience that embodies it, and the word itself means different things—wild? extreme? disturbed? passionate?—to different people. (Don’t) Call Me Crazy is a conversation starter and guide to better understanding how our mental health affects us every day. Thirty-three writers, athletes, and artists offer essays, lists, comics, and illustrations that explore their personal experiences with mental illness, how we do and do not talk about mental health, help for better understanding how every person’s brain is wired differently, and what, exactly, might make someone crazy. If you’ve ever struggled with your mental health, or know someone who has, come on in, turn the pages, and let’s get talking. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Primer Aaron Smith, 2016-10-06 In his third poetry collection, Primer, Aaron Smith grapples with the ugly realities of the private self, in which desire feels more like a trap than fulfillment. What is the face we prepare in our public lives to distract others from our private grief? Smith's poetry explores that inexplicable tension between what we say and how we actually feel, exposing the complications of intimacy and the limitations of language to bridge those distances between friends, family members, and lovers. What we deny, in the end, may be just what we actually survive. Mortality in Smith's work remains the uncomfortable foundation at the center of our relationship with others, to faith, to art, to love as we grow older, and ultimately, to our own sense of who we are in our bodies in the world. The struggle of this book, finally, is in naming whether just what we say we want is enough to satisfy our primal needs, or are the choices we make to stay alive the same choices we make to help us, in so many small ways, to die. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Customs Solmaz Sharif, 2022-03-01 Winner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry Winner of the 2023 Northern California Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalist for the 2022 L.A. Times Book Prize for Poetry Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award In Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that become a relentless experience of America. With resignation and austerity, these poems trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of the nation-state and the English language, and the realities they impose upon the imagination, the paces they put us through. While Sharif critiques the culture of performed social skills and poetry itself—its foreclosures, affects, successes—she begins to write her way out to the other side of acceptability and toward freedom. Customs is a brilliant, excoriating new collection by a poet whose unfolding works are among the groundbreaking literature of our time. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Very Sad Poetry Stephen Liddell, 2015-10-15 They say there is no money in poetry but there is no poetry in money. Some things though are more important and money like ones soul. Though there is much in the way of poetry about the positives in life, happiness, love and friendship, not everyone is fortunate to be in a position to relate about such feelings. Whilst others have a bad day once in a while, others have a good day once in a while and that only if they are lucky. Very Sad Poetry is book of 50 poems dedicated to those who've known loss, deep sadness or loneliness and contains poems that could be said relate to feelings of depression or suicide with others dealing with experiences in a more light-hearted sort of way with dashings of gallow-humour. I hope it will be comforting for those who can relate to such feelings and maybe be of help to them to as well as those who have friends or family in such a situation. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Upstream Mary Oliver, 2019-10-29 One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language . . .” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds . . .” —The New York Times “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, “a place to enter, and in which to feel,” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, and Frost, the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion. Throughout this collection, Oliver positions not just herself upstream but us as well as she encourages us all to keep moving, to lose ourselves in the awe of the unknown, and to give power and time to the creative and whimsical urges that live within us. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: A Crowded Loneliness r.h. Sin, 2020-05-26 LIMITED EDITION E-BOOK EXCLUSIVE! A Crowded Loneliness documents the thoughts of one mind in isolation and may mirror the emotions of many others. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Wild Flowers Michelle S. Smith, 2018-11 This collection of Poetry and Prose is an explosion of femininity, empowerment, and personal growth. Michelle celebrates her triumph over mental illness and promotes resilience and self-love in her readers. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Don't Let Me Be Lonely Claudia Rankine, 2024-07-09 A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious assault on selfhood that our media have inflicted upon our lives. Fusing the lyric, the essay, and the visual, Rankine negotiates the enduring anxieties of medicated depression, race riots, divisive elections, terrorist attacks, and ongoing wars—doom scrolling through the daily news feeds that keep us glued to our screens and that have come to define our age. First published in 2004, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a hauntingly prescient work, one that has secured a permanent place in American literature. This new edition is presented in full color with updated visuals and text, including a new preface by the author, and matches the composition of Rankine’s best-selling and award-winning Citizen and Just Us as the first book in her acclaimed American trilogy. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a crucial guide to surviving a fractured and fracturing American consciousness—a book of rare and vital honesty, complexity, and presence. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Loneliness as a Way of Life Thomas Dumm, 2010-05-01 “What does it mean to be lonely?” Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self. Through reflections on philosophy, political theory, literature, and tragic drama, he proceeds to illuminate a hidden dimension of the human condition. His book shows how loneliness shapes the contemporary division between public and private, our inability to live with each other honestly and in comity, the estranged forms that our intimate relationships assume, and the weakness of our common bonds. A reading of the relationship between Cordelia and her father in Shakespeare’s King Lear points to the most basic dynamic of modern loneliness—how it is a response to the problem of the “missing mother.” Dumm goes on to explore the most important dimensions of lonely experience—Being, Having, Loving, and Grieving. As the book unfolds, he juxtaposes new interpretations of iconic cultural texts—Moby-Dick, Death of a Salesman, the film Paris, Texas, Emerson’s “Experience,” to name a few—with his own experiences of loneliness, as a son, as a father, and as a grieving husband and widower. Written with deceptive simplicity, Loneliness as a Way of Life is something rare—an intellectual study that is passionately personal. It challenges us, not to overcome our loneliness, but to learn how to re-inhabit it in a better way. To fail to do so, this book reveals, will only intensify the power that it holds over us. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Journal of a Solitude May Sarton, 2014-07-22 The poet and author’s “beautiful . . . wise and warm” journal of time spent in her New Hampshire home alone with her garden, her books, the seasons, and herself (Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain Dealer). “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” —May Sarton May Sarton’s parrot chatters away as Sarton looks out the window at the rain and contemplates returning to her “real” life—not friends, not even love, but writing. In her bravest and most revealing memoir, Sarton casts her keenly observant eye on both the interior and exterior worlds. She shares insights about everyday life in the quiet New Hampshire village of Nelson, the desire for friends, and need for solitude—both an exhilarating and terrifying state. She likens writing to “cracking open the inner world again,” which sometimes plunges her into depression. She confesses her fears, her disappointments, her unresolved angers. Sarton’s garden is her great, abiding joy, sustaining her through seasons of psychic and emotional pain. Journal of a Solitude is a moving and profound meditation on creativity, oneness with nature, and the courage it takes to be alone. Both uplifting and cathartic, it sweeps us along on Sarton’s pilgrimage inward. This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: It's a Lonely Love Hunter Summerall, 2018-11-13 Cataloguing the rise and fall of an ill-fated relationship, It's a Lonely Love explores the vulnerability one must feel before moving on from a lost love. Styled as entries from a journal, Hunter Summerall’s poetry takes the personal and constructs a universal story about unrequited love and anguish. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: What I Leave Behind Alison McGhee, 2018-05-15 “An artful exercise in melancholy…Every reader will love openhearted Will.” —Booklist (starred review) “Haunting, introspective.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Emotionally raw…[A] piercing narrative.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “McGhee artfully illustrates the tangled web wherein grief intertwines with the mundane.” —BCCB After his dad dies of suicide, Will tries to overcome his own misery by secretly helping the people around him in this exquisitely crafted story made up of one hundred chapters of one hundred words each, by award-winning and bestselling author Alison McGhee. Sixteen-year-old Will spends most of his days the same way: Working at the Dollar Only store, trying to replicate his late father’s famous cornbread recipe, and walking the streets of Los Angeles. Will started walking after his father committed suicide, and three years later he hasn’t stopped. But there are some places Will can’t walk by: The blessings store with the chest of 100 Chinese blessings in the back, the bridge on Fourth Street where his father died, and his childhood friend Playa’s house. When Will learns Playa was raped at a party—a party he was at, where he saw Playa, and where he believes he could have stopped the worst from happening if he hadn’t left early—it spurs Will to stop being complacent in his own sadness and do some good in the world. He begins to leave small gifts for everyone in his life, from Superman the homeless guy he passes on his way to work, to the Little Butterfly Dude he walks by on the way home, to Playa herself. And it is through those acts of kindness that Will is finally able to push past his own trauma and truly begin to live his life again. Oh, and discover the truth about that cornbread. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Shaping the Fractured Self Heather Taylor Johnson, 2017 Of course not all great art has its genesis in pain, and not all pain-not even a fraction-leads to the partial consolations of art. But if lancing an abscess is the surest way to healing, can poetry offer that same cleansing of emotional wounds? Shaping the Fractured Self showcases twenty-eight of Australia's finest poets who happen to live with chronic illness and pain. The autobiographical short essays, in conjunction with the three poems from each of the poets, capture the body in trauma in its many and varied moods. Because those who live with chronic illness and pain experience shifts in their relationship to it on a yearly, monthly, or daily basis, so do the words they use to describe it. This book gives voice to sufferers, carers, medical practitioners, and researchers, building understanding in a community of caring. [Subject: Chronic Illness, Poetry, Health Studies] |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Killing the Black Dog Les A. Murray, 2011-01-22 Killing the Black Dog is Les Murray's courageous account of his struggle with depression, accompanied by poems specially selected by the author. Since the first edition appeared in 1997, hosts of readers have drawn insight from his account of the disease, its social effects and its origins in his family's history. As Murray writes in this revise... |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Barking Spiders 2 C. J. Heck, Features a collection of poems for children, written by C.J. Heck. Includes poems and stories for children by other authors and information on joining the Lil Spiders' Poetry Club. Offers access to other Web sites related to poetry and children. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Love, Remember Malcolm Guite, 2017-11-30 The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer. Some of the poems will be familiar, many will be new, but together they provide a sure companion for the journey across difficult terrain. Some of Malcolm’s own poetry is included, written out of his work as a priest with the dying and the bereaved and giving to the volume a powerful authenticity. The choice of forty poems is significant and reflects an ancient practice still observed in some European and Middle Eastern societies of taking extra-special care of a bereaved person in the forty days following a death – our word quarantine come from this. They explore the nature and the risk of love, the pain of letting go and look toward glimpses of resurrection. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Mysticism for Beginners Adam Zagajewski, 1999-04-15 [Zagajewski] is in some sense a pilgrim, a seeker, a celebrant in search of the divine, the unchanging, the absolute. His poems are filled with radiant moments of plenitude. They are spiritual emblems, hymns to the unknown, levers for transcendence. --Edward Hirsch, Doubletake. Zagajewski deserves the attention of readers accustomed to swerve away from poetry. And moreover, he is good: the unmistakable quality of the real thing -- a sunlike force that wilts clichés and bollixes the categories of expectation -- manifests itself powerfully through able translation. --Robert Pinsky, The New Republic. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Swimming Lessons Lili Reinhart, 2020-09-29 Instant New York Times Bestseller The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity. I seem to be your new favorite novel. One that keeps you up at night, turning my pages. Fingers lingering on me so you don’t lose your place. Swimming Lessons explores the euphoric beginnings of young love, battling anxiety and depression in the face of fame, and the inevitable heartbreak that stems from passion. Relatable yet deeply intimate, provocative yet comforting, bite-sized yet profound, Lili's poems reflect her trademark honesty and unique perspective. Accompanied by striking and evocative illustrations, Swimming Lessons reveals the depths of female experience, and is the work of a storyteller who is coming into her own. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Poetry Pharmacy William Sieghart, 2025-09-25 Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a space for reflection, and that precious realization - I'm not the only one who feels like this. In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time. This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary- those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work. Whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego, there is something here to ease your pain. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez, 2022-10-11 Netflix’s series adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude premieres December 11, 2024! One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Eye Level Jenny Xie, 2018-04-03 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera For years now, I’ve been using the wrong palette. Each year with its itchy blue, as the bruise of solitude reaches its expiration date. Planes and buses, guesthouse to guesthouse. I’ve gotten to where I am by dint of my poor eyesight, my overreactive motion sickness. 9 p.m., Hanoi’s Old Quarter: duck porridge and plum wine. Voices outside the door come to a soft boil. —from “Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season” Jenny Xie’s award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion, from immigration to travel to estranging losses and departures. The sensual worlds here—colors, smells, tastes, and changing landscapes—bring to life questions about the self as seer and the self as seen. As Xie writes, “Me? I’m just here in my traveler’s clothes, trying on each passing town for size.” Her taut, elusive poems exult in a life simultaneously crowded and quiet, caught in between things and places, and never quite entirely at home. Xie is a poet of extraordinary perception—both to the tangible world and to “all that is untouchable as far as the eye can reach.” |
| poems of depression and loneliness: The Subject Tonight Is Love Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky, 2003-01-28 A rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet Hafiz to Western readers, from bestselling poet Daniel Ladinsky Perhaps more than any other Persian poet, it is Hafiz who most fully accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of verse. Acclaimed poet Daniel Ladinsky has made it his life’s work to create modern, inspired renderings of the world’s most profound spiritual poetry. Through Ladinsky’s renderings, Hafiz’s voice comes alive across the centuries, singing his timeless message of love. With this stunning collection, Ladinsky has once again succeeded brilliantly in capturing the essence of one of Islam’s greatest poetic and spiritual voices. “Ladinsky is a master who will be remembered for finally bringing Hafiz alive in the West.” —Alexandra Marks, The Christian Science Monitor |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Together and by Ourselves Alex Dimitrov, 2017 A wry, haunting search for connection in snippets of conversations, faded memories, and snapshots of LA and New York. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Black Rainbow Rachel Kelly, 2015-10-06 In 1997, Oxford graduate, working mother and Times journalist Rachel Kelly went from feeling mildly anxious to being completely unable to function within the space of just three days. Prescribed antidepressants by her doctor, and supported by her husband and her family, Rachel slowly began to get better, but her anxiety levels remained high, and six years later, as a stay-at-home mother, she suffered a second collapse even worse than the first. Throughout both of Rachel's periods of severe depression, the healing power of poetry became an integral part of her recovery. As someone who had always loved poetry, it became something for Rachel to cling on to in times of need - from repeating short mantras to learning and reciting entire poems - these words and verses became a powerful force for change in her life. In Black Rainbow Rachel analyses why poetry can be one answer to depression, and the book contains a selected 40 of the poems that provided Rachel with solace and comfort during her breakdown and recovery. At a time when mental health problems and depression are becoming more common, and the stigma around such issues is finally being lifted, this book offers a lifeline for anyone seeking to understand depression and seek new ways to treat it. Poetry is free, has no side-effects and, as Rachel can attest, 'prescribing words instead of pills' can be an incredibly powerful remedy. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: You Get So Alone at Times Charles Bukowski, 2009-03-17 Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions. “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter |
| poems of depression and loneliness: A Lonely World and Other Poems Himanshu Goel, 2020-06-03 Read these poems in the times you feel lonely, when the warm blanket is unable to provide you the comfort that you are used to.Read these poems when you feel anxious, when even little thoughts feel like the weight of the world is upon you.Read these poems in the times you feel most vulnerable.Read these poems and know that you are not alone in your loneliness. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Poems about Dark Times Maria B. Hayden, 2019 |
| poems of depression and loneliness: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows John Koenig, 2021-11-16 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington Post A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now. Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.” If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig set out to fill the gaps in our language of emotion. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows “creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have,” says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. By turns poignant, relatable, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition—from “astrophe,” the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to “zenosyne,” the sense that time keeps getting faster. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives. With a gorgeous package and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and human beings everywhere. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: The Birth of All Things Marcus Amaker, 2020-06-02 Masculinity doesn't have to be toxic, but some men choose to put poison on their tongue ... The Birth Of All Things is an eclectic mix of poems from Marcus Amaker, the first Poet Laureate of Charleston, SC.This personal collection delivers poems about a wide range of topics: life as a new dad, racism in America, Bjork, anxiety, Star Wars, masculinity, pandemics, black music, history, and more. Amaker is an award-winning graphic designer, musician, and performance poet. The Birth Of All Things is the sum of all of his talents.The book features an original illustration from Florida artist Nick Davis. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Survival Songs Meggie Royer, 2016-11-23 Say girl now and we see ourselves in kitchens. See ourselves in graves. But still we read our horoscopes. Survival Songs is a rerelease of Meggie Royer's first collection of poems, which was a finalist in the GoodReads Choice Awards for the Best Poetry Book of 2013. This edition includes new work, including Royer's most popular poem, The Morning After I Killed Myself. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up: From Avoidance to Recovery and Growth Robert T. Muller, 2018-06-19 Winner, 2019 Written Media Award, International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation. Winner, 2015 William James Book Award, American Psychological Association How to navigate the therapeutic relationship with trauma survivors, to help bring recovery and growth. In therapy, we see how relationships are central to many traumatic experiences, but relationships are also critical to trauma recovery. Grounded firmly in attachment and trauma theory, this book shows how to use the psychotherapy relationship, to help clients find self-understanding and healing from trauma. Offering candid, personal guidance, using rich case examples, Dr. Robert T. Muller provides the steps needed to build and maintain a strong therapist-client relationship –one that helps bring recovery and growth. With a host of practical tips and protocols, this book gives therapists a roadmap to effective trauma treatment. |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Prognosis Jim Moore, 2021-11-02 Jim Moore’s poems “are chips of reality, obsidian flakes of the heart and mind” (Jane Hirshfield) In his eighth collection, the celebrated poet Jim Moore looks into unrelenting darkness where moments of tenderness and awe illuminate, at times suddenly like lightning in the night, at others, more quietly, as the steady glow of streetlights in a snowstorm. These are poems of both patience and urgency, of necessary attendance and helpless exuberance in the breathing world—something rare in contemporary poetry. Written in Minneapolis amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s masked and distanced loneliness, after the police murder of George Floyd, as an empire comes to an end, Prognosis turns toward the living moment as a surprising source of abundance. Here we find instances of essential human connection animated by a saving grace that pulls us back from depression and despair. Contemplating with playful wisdom what it is to brave the later years of one’s life, Moore revels in the possibilities of joy and mourns the limits of our capacity to greet the unknown with resolve and wonder. The prognosis Moore foresees demands continued stillness, continued movement: “Also known as going home,” he writes. “Also known as getting over yourself.” |
| poems of depression and loneliness: Anatomy of a Poet C. J. Heck, 2013-04 Poetry can be daunting and hard to understand, but it doesn't have to be. I feel a poet has an obligation to write in a way that everyone can understand. Poems should flow softly through a poet's words, their meanings gently caressing the heart and mind of its reader. If a poem comes from the heart, it will reach other hearts, and this is what I've tried to do with the poetry in Anatomy of a Poet. CJ Heck Like a rose with many petals and sharing its sweet aroma, this is how I see and feel about the love of my life, CJ Heck. She is my electric blue-eyed girl. She can be both a little girl, or a strong woman, whenever and wherever the situation calls for it. She is both sensuous and exciting, and soft and affectionate. Tragedy struck her life early with the death of her husband in Vietnam. This experience laid open the very core of her heart and soul and opened the channel to a well of compassion and sensitivity that waited deep within. Her pain was the fertilizer that helped her bloom as a writer. CJ's poetry is not a surface observation, but a soulful interpretation of the events and people that inspired her. She writes both eloquently and simply of things that touch her heart, things she wants to share. She is gifted at painting a picture with words on the heart and imagination of others, thereby communicating not just an image, but a life experience. I feel very honored to have been asked to write this introduction and share my feelings about CJ Heck. She is the water for my soil, the sunlight for my petals and the nurturer of my growth. Sit back, open your heart and enjoy the journey as revealed through her words, images and emotions. You are blessed by this opportunity to know her in words, as I know her in life. Robert S. Cosmar, Author This is my kind of poetry. Direct, beautifully expressed and without a hint of pretension. Allison Cassidy CJ is predominately viewed as a writer of works for children, but CJ now carries over her approach to more adult themes. In doing so, she presents a profound world that is deeply sad, incredibly humorous and sometimes very intimate. Joseph Daly I love learning new words, especially when they are explained with such diaphanous clarity. Whether she talks of love, children, life, or any other subject, CJ's words are always clear and harmonious. She makes us forget that easy to read is hard to write. Marc Mimouni (London, United Kingdom) CJ Heck is a very talented author. Her words are enlightening and charismatic to people of all ages. It is a privilege and honor to read her prolific pen. Janet Caldwell (Managing Editor, Inner Child Magazine |
| poems of depression and loneliness: All I See Is You Jessica Urlichs, 2022-03-13 **Hardback includes bonus pages of additional poetry!** Oh, how the days are long it's true Yesterdays are many But todays are a few So I'll fill them up With all of you And simply be, Here With you. 'All I See Is You', captures the heartfelt and honest moments of early motherhood. Jessica's words encompass the highs and the lows, the raw and the vulnerable and everything in between. It's the kind of book you want on your bedside sitting next to the bottles or breast pump. This book of 60 poems and proses will take mothers on a journey of healing and growth with a powerful affirmation that you are not alone. A popular gift around the world for expectant mother's, new mother's and mothers with grown children. There are words in here for everyone. Jessica found a way to put into words the very soul of motherhood'. This writer writes as though she's taken the words out of every mother's head... the feelings that most mothers will experience but can't always express. So relatable, so beautiful, sometimes funny and often emotional, I challenge you not to get teary eyed! Thank you for your poems, your writing makes me feel human again. Jessica's poetry books have sold tens of thousands around the world. 'All I See Is You', is Jessica's second in her collection of poetry, with 'From One Mom to a Mother' being her first and 'My After All', the final in her collection. Jessica is also a best selling author of 'The Rainbow In My Heart', a picture book on emotions. Jess's poems can also be found on Etsy! www.jessicaurlichs.com |
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to depression. In this case, loneliness is more frequently linked to social exclusion than to lack of companionship (Domènech-Abella et al., 2017). Thus, the strength of the influence of the BE on loneliness and depression might change depending on the levels of depression and loneliness status, respectively. We used two recently identified
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havior with depression, social interaction anxiety, and loneliness risks among adults in Taiwan. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted in October 2018, in which data from 1488
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Spithoven, Lodder, etal. (2017 ) found that adolescents could display only loneliness, only depression, both, or neither, and these different combinations had different links to friendship quantity and quality and happiness. In summary, loneliness and depression are two separate, but correlated constructs.
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and depression. LONELINESS AND DEPRESSION Though there is no research on the mediating role of self-concept confusion in the relationship between loneliness and depression, much is known about that relationship. As early as 1967, psy-chologists, such as Beck, reported that feelings of loneliness were related to depression (Beck, 1967). Since ...
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loneliness and depression than female students and that the loneliness and depression levels of the first-gradestudents were higher than those of others significantly.Moreover, a moderately significant relationship was found between the loneliness and depression levels of students.
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depression and loneliness. 190 The Journal of Genetic Psychology This study was supported by Grant PICT 1999 04-06300 from the National Council of Sci-entific and Technological Research, Argentina
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Loneliness, depression, passive sensing, smartphone, students, fitness tracker Submission date: 12 April 2023; Acceptance date: 12 October 2023 Introduction Loneliness and depression are important public health con-cerns that affect people’s mental and physical health. Loneliness is increasing globally, with many identifying it
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feelings of loneliness and subsequent depression. Theoretically, researchers have begun to argue that Bowlby s (1969, 1973, 1980, 1988) attachment theory can be applied to
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3 FACTFIL: GCE ENGLISH LITERATURE / STARTING POINTS SECTION A POETRY PRESENT Seamus Heaney AO2: Poetic methods Form and structure • Use of quatrains • Tercets, ‘Had I not been Awake,’ The Conway Stewart; • Personal Helicon, The Peninsula, Bogland; • Sonnet, The Forge; • Free verse, Bogland, The Conway Stewart; • Rhyming …
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measures of loneliness and to examine the relationships between loneliness and specific sociodemographic, psychosocial, and health-related variables in a sample of older chronically ill Appalachians.
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a protective role against both loneliness and depression in older adults. While social support can independently influence both loneliness and depression, the current study intends to add to the existing knowledge by explor-ing how social support mediates the relationship between loneliness and depression.
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Given the depiction of loneliness as a rather aversive and distressing state, the often-described link between loneliness and mental health problems is not surprising. Loneliness has been closely associated with depression (Hojat 1998). Loneliness has generally been associated with negative feelings about interpersonal relationships
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Measures of loneliness and extent of social network In TILDA, loneliness was measured using a modified version of the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale (Russell, 1996). Five questions asked about feelings of: lack of companionship; being left out; isolation from others; loneliness; and being out of
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The association of depression, loneliness and internet addiction levels in patients with acne vulgaris Coşkun Öztekin1* and Aynure Öztekin2 Abstract Background: Acne vulgaris is a very common skin disorder that has negative effects on the mood, self image and social relations of the patients. We want to evaluate the effects of acne vulgaris ...
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Background: Loneliness and depression are the noteworthy mental health issues which are prevalent among older people but only a few studies have addressed this aspect especially in developing countries. So, this study is an attempt to shed light to this aspect of older adult’s life, in order to assess the level of loneliness and depression ...
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depression and loneliness. Key words : depression; loneliness; social media use; social support; university students Introduction Today, young people use the opportunities brought by technology. One of them is the use of social media applications. This applications are an area that allow users to share their emotions,
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DEPRESSION, SOCIAL SKILLS, AND LONELINESS JURNAL PSIKOLOGI 101 = 0.875 and the item total correlation ranged between 0.315 and 0.746. Data collection was conducted by
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poems. His poetry often deals with the disenfranchised, or the outsider, American; yet it is also often inward probing. Wright suffered from depression and bipolar mood disorders and also battled alcoholism his entire life. He experienced several nervous breakdowns, was hospitalized, and was subjected to electroshock therapy.
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 7417 3 of 12 2.2. Measurement Tools The survey was created on the basis of a literature review on mental well-being and with the use
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The Loneliness of Being Gary Randolph Stimson,2018-09-20 The Loneliness of Being is as much a diary in verse form as it is a collection of poems; hence the chronological approach. Most of these poems I have written have been either under the influence of my favourite tipple: beer, or under the influence of existentialism, or both.
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Poems Of Depression And Loneliness Joseph Kuuire. Poems Of Depression And Loneliness Happy, Okay? M.J. Fievre,2019-12-03 A poetry collection crafted to inspire healing in those tackling mental health issues or to help those closest to them Paloma is faking it On the outside she s A Okay She s electrified at work there is a cadence in
Loneliness and depression in the elderly: the role of social network
However, whether loneliness causes depression or depression increases the feelings of loneliness, or both, has not been fully established. Strong evidence was provided by a 5-year longitudinal study on older adults conducted in Chicago which showed that loneliness predicted subsequent increases in depressive symptomatology, but not vice versa [7].
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the network. Despite the expectation that loneliness would be implicated more robustly in the anxiety and depression network of symptoms, the results suggest loneliness as a distinct construct that is not interwoven with anxiety and depression. Keywords:Anxiety; Depression; Loneliness. In response to the escalating COVID-19 pandemic gov-
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intervention on reducing depression and loneliness among elderly. Key words: Depression, loneliness, counseling, elderly. I. Introduction: There are so many changes in the human‘s life due to aging and approaching to the geriatric phase that include most importantly of loss, loneliness and social isolation, poverty, feeling of rejection, trying
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traits. Through his poems he portrays their sufferings and tries to aware them so that they could fight with these social evils. Key Words- Sufferings, Loneliness, Exploitation, Poverty, Alienation, Predicaments Introduction- Mahapatra has tried every possible effort to justify his role as a poet towards women. He has portrayed the
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dynamics in loneliness also provide insights into the asso-ciations between loneliness and psychopathological symp-toms. However, it is unclear whether the temporal dynamics of loneliness differ from those of affect. On a the-oretical level, differentiating the temporal dynamics of loneliness and affect is important to avoid jingle-jangle fal-
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levels of loneliness, anxiety, and depression may be associated with different associations. For example, the association among loneliness, anxiety, and depression may be stronger than usual, and the loneliness–anxiety–depression comorbidity across time could be increased. Moreover, the present sample of university students
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depression, loneliness, self-regulation, and academic achievement in international and local students in Western countries. Some of these gaps include the lack of replication, ignoring the direct and mediating roles
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ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN LONELINESS, DEPRESSION, & ADHD 6 This study aimed to examine the patterns of association between ADHD diagnosis, the multiple components of loneliness and depressive symptoms. Specifically, we hypothesized that loneliness would mediate the relationship between an ADHD diagnosis and depressive symptoms. Method
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Objectives: Depression and loneliness are challenges facing older residents living in long-term care fa-cilities. Social robots might be a solution as nonpharmacologic interventions. The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of concrete forms of social robots on depression and loneliness in older residents in
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Depression, Anxiety and Loneliness among Elderly Living in Geriatric Homes . Mona Mohamed Barakat *, Naglaa Fathi Elattar, Hanan Nasef Zaki .
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Blythe family members discussing the poems. An abridged version, which shortened and reorganized the stories and omitted all the vignettes and all but one of the poems, was published as a collection of short stories The Road to Yesterday in 1974. A complete edition of The Blythes Are Quoted, edited by
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the relationship between loneliness, social networks and depression and, specifically, whether Weiss’s conceptu-alization of two types of loneliness may explain the role of loneliness and social networks in depression and the role of depression and social networks in loneliness. The tested hypotheses were: (1) the role of the different social
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loneliness and depression might vary with perceptions of self-efficacy and coping methods used, and if these relationships would be moderated by the Val66Met genotype, as reported in other contexts (Hilt et al., 2007; Beevers et al., 2009; Caldwell et al., 2013). In this regard, it was of interest to determine
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depression, and loneliness in young adults and their impact on psychological well-being. A sample of 200 young adults between the ages of 17 and 25 was recruited from a university setting. Participants completed self-reported measures of stress, anxiety, depression, loneliness, and psychological well-being, including DASS-21 ...
Associations between transient and chronic loneliness, and depression …
Spithoven, Lodder, etal. (2017 ) found that adolescents could display only loneliness, only depression, both, or neither, and these different combinations had different links to friendship quantity and quality and happiness. In summary, loneliness and depression are two separate, but correlated constructs.
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research, depression is regarded as a depressive tendency or emotion (Holden, 2000). Studies showed a correlation between depression and loneliness. Severe or long-term loneliness affects mental ...
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for loneliness are primarily found "in the way in which lonely people perceive, evaluate, and respond to interpersonal reality" (p. 244). One difficulty in researching the role of dysfunctional attitudes in loneliness is the strong relationship between loneliness and depression. Cor-
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4 Feb 1980 · of depression. Second, depression may cause people to reduce their social activities and become lonely. Finally, other factors such as the breakup of a close relationship may simul-taneously produce both loneliness and de-pression. Identification of the causal relations be-tween loneliness and depression is complicated
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Adult Attachment, Shame, Depression, and Loneliness: The Mediation …
Keywords: adult attachment, depression, loneliness, basic psychological needs satisfaction, mediation Over the past decade, researchers have become increasingly interested in examining the mediators of the relationship between attachment and psychological (e.g., shame and depression) and interpersonal distress (e.g., loneliness).
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in the disadvantage community of Malaysia and to determine predictors of depression. A set of stand-ardized questionnaires was used to measure depression, loneliness and stressful life events. The results showed that loneliness and stressful life events were related to depression. Results also showed that loneliness was a predictor of depression.
