Creative Perspective- A way to Cope!

-This entry is intended to be used as a possible coping mechanism for those managing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Specifically directed to side effects such as;

Post; any Auditory, Tactile and/or visual Hallucinating attacks. #WritingtoHeal #ComplexPTSDSurvivor #Poetry

Flashbacks

By: Katelyn Taney

Illustrations: Katelyn Taney & Mike Con

Blind me?

Unbind me from these sensories trolling my fight, I should be seeing my haven!

I do..."but it smells?"

All these unfamiliarities are suddenly found to be to easily remembered.

*forced fetal, bones locked.

what am I hearing?

All these sounds; I remembered?

"wait..."

My eyes closed? I'm sinking!

no; I'm flying?

*nauseous

I feel warm pressure in places I'm dreading touch, but who?

"let go, let go, let go!"

*face is burning

"who's crying?" I hear shallow breaths hitting the walls round me; that echo....

I know those walls!

i'm the one crying!

wait, wait....

"no!"

I am dying?

This fight, I must be alive?

"yes!"

but, I am fighting to live so wrongly?

that's it, its time to go back to haven!

"i can see; I'm home!"

*repeat of attack

"It's never the same."

Model: Katelyn Taney

Photographer: Mike Con