I am an undergraduate from the sunny island and city-state of Singapore. I have been battling with depression for 7 years and I am still fighting. My mental health journey has been closely tied with my experience as a writer.
After experiencing a traumatic event, I developed PTSD in relation to an activity that I was using to escape back then - writing. It was devastating as a humanities student, and it felt like I had lost my voice. For years, this connection was not discovered and I had suffered tremendously in school as I struggled with writing academic essays under time constraints while my mind was unknowingly battling with PTSD.
Drawing this connection did not make things significantly easier, as I had to start building and re-learning how to write again. More importantly, I had to also re-build confidence in myself after losing faith in my own abilities throughout the time I had unknowingly struggled with writing.
Reading has always been my favourite past time, and I never imagined that I would one day turn back to poetry as a means to write about my experience. I had studied and enjoyed literature classes back in secondary school, but was always more of an appreciator than a poet. I look forward to journey and growth as I continue to use poetry as a form of expression and self-therapy in making sense of my mental health.
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