ISOLATION

When I experienced bad bouts of anxiety and depression I would isolate.  I still do.  Avoid socializing.  Avoid commitment.  Avoid stimulation.  I would escape into my own head and look for comfort there.  But I would never find it.

When someone with depression reaches out to talk and they are scolded or told to just be happy they will retreat.  They will isolate.  And if they don’t learn to manage that isolation it will swallow them whole.

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Please don’t let go

Don’t let me fade away

I’m hanging on here

Best I can, but…

I feel like my grip

Might just give up

And you say

Why don’t you just

Slow up and grow up

You’re making me

Want to throw up

And I regress and digress

Put myself in timeout

Give my brain a recess

I can’t listen right now

I can’t listen right now

I can’t listen right now

Leave your name

And number after the…

I can’t listen right now

And you leave a message

Hey there buddy

How have you been?

I miss your face and

Hanging at your place

Wait… what’s your name?

Has it been that long?

Oh dude I’m sorry

I said those things to you

I didn’t realize the pain

You were going through

BEEEP

I can’t listen right now