In the wake of Caroline Flack’s Suicide I am publishing this writing as my way of highlighting how the system these days can fail the most vulnerable. She may have had fame and fortune but she hid her vulnerability so well that no one thought that what she was going through was enough for her to take her own life. I have the greatest respect for all of you out there suffering your own mental health issues on a daily basis as I do. Please don’t hide it away – confront it, challenge it, take control of it – get started today – talk to someone about how you’re feeling.

My anxiety and depression
It’s a bitter pill to swallow
When I’m in the very depths of it
I don’t know if there’ll be a tomorrow

The drugs that I’ve been prescribed
Will help me the doctors say
But so so many times
They’ve let me down along the way

I’m made to feel that it’s all my fault
I’m really just wasting their time
I’m a burden on our society
Asking for help feels like I’m committing a crime

The only thing I’m asking them for
Is a pill that will fix my brain
Because they say I’m not really ill
But I desperately want to stop the pain