My mental health is
Just a joke.
Its not like you mean
To be offensive
It just happens to be a direct hit
In the gut
When you say shit like
“he was just being so bipolar!”
In response to someone
Being aggressive
Or cheating
Or showing any form of emotion.
Like when you say things like
People who claim
To be depressed
Or suicidal
Are just looking for
Or Are desperate for
Attention, right?
Everything you say
Is fucking offensive.
But I offend you with
My defensive jokes,
The things that get me through
The depression that your bashing
The thing I can not mention
Because how dare I defend myself
When you say things so offensive.
I am just emotional
“she’s being so bipolar right now”.
I can’t get upset
Without it being about
My mental health.
So, I joke,
About dumb things,
Like myself,
Because I am just
Another a dumb thing
To joke about.
You get offended
By something as simple
As a word I used
Or a name I call you
Even though
It was just an extension
to a joke you had made
Or a name you gave yourself.
the word itself might not be offensive in any way,
The context silly,
The joke so dumb
That if you had made it about me
We all would have laughed
Because even my bipolar ass would not find that offensive.
And in the same breath where you tell me
That the joke I said
Hurt your feelings
You bash people
With mental health issues
For being suicidal.
I strike back
And your response.
“oh, she’s upset. She’s just being a bit bipolar right now”.
But my dumb joke was offensive, right?
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Melissa JA (Pseudonym) (
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Comments2
I can relate to your apparent anger. I was diagnosed as being severly depressed in 1990. And it pisses me off when people tell me to "just get over it"!!
And fat people don't complain about being called fatty? Bald people about being baldy? One legged people being called peg leg? My learning difficulties daughter being called nutter?
It's a cruel world. We need to accept how the uneducated society all around us sees us.
Or do you know a better alternative? Because you cannot change the attitudes and behaviour of the masses just because they hurt you. Proof of that is all around us.
your right, people can be cruel. people can be hurtful. that does not mean I, or you, or anyone else need to accept this. It takes people speaking out to make those changes. We CAN change people, because people CAN change. When people are made aware and educated they are more likely to change. people are changing every day, and I have seen less people calling others "fatty" or "baldy" than ever before. why is this? because people are speaking out. This poem was not about someone knowing i had bipolar disorder, and calling me bipolar. It was about the stigma, the hurt, the fact that people use bipolar as a negative term towards people for having emotions or anger. mental illness is not defended as much as body positivity, yet. This isn't just complaining, this is spreading awareness.
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