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30-minute mental breakdown (please read the description)
Write the stream of thoughts someone having a mental breakdown over the course of 30 minutes. The mental breakdown could be from depression, an anxiety attack, stress, anything like that. The goal of this challenge is to let people into the minds of those going through this by spreading awareness for what are the real thoughts going through people's heads when they are having these breakdowns. Hopefully by sharing these stories or these experiences more people can learn how to help calm and help someone going through something like this. This can be in Poetry, Freeverse, or Prose.

Mental Breakdown

Tears stream

A never-ending river

Like how is possible to cry this much

My heart hurts

My mind hurts

Nothing seems to be okay

Nothing can calm me down

Everything is spinning

Emotions are mixing

Depression kicks in

Anxiety kicks in

Everything kicks in

Just one thing can light a match to set off a hundred

Your life seems meaningless

You seem worthless

Everything they said is in your head

You think it’s real

You hate yourself

You think you’re alone

You think you’re hated

You cry into your hands

A comforting hand is nowhere to be found

Sitting here in the darkness hurts

Everything they say hurts

My thoughts hurt

I know I don’t deserve this

But somehow I believe I do

I am not in my mind

My thoughts scrambled

I just want to give up

On life

On trying

On being me

I hate myself

I hate who I am

I hate everything

I start to believe what they say

Maybe it is true

Maybe I am worthless

Maybe I am a moron

Maybe I am overweight

Maybe I am ugly

Chances are when you look up you will have someone

I know right now it seems impossible

But beat the impossibility

You are loved

You are worth something

You are beautiful

You are human

And you are here for a reason

Be yourself and nobody else

Keep you as you

Because that is the best you can be

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