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Why Be Ashamed?

A poem about Mental Health

Photo by Sydney Sims on Unsplash

Some days I feel better

Some days I feel worse

Some days I sleep as long as I can

Because being alive just hurts

I don’t want to talk about it

Because I’m ashamed

But why? I know other people feel the same

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