The Wait
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By Moneer Elmasseek
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You can feel what its about to happen.
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The all too familier feeling of sleeping slowly.
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The world becomes louder.
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Sleep becomes a labour.
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Breathing becomes a skill to learn.
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So you sit, not defeated, merely ready.
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Waiting for the tide to come in.
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This is a piece I wrote about the feeling of entering a bad episode of mental health. As somebody on the autistic spectrum I can sometimes sense when I am going to sink into an episode of Anxiety so I thought I would put some of my thoughts to paper.
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If you feel yourself going into a mental healh crisis, you are not alone. Here are some numbers that might help if you're in the UK:
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The Samaritans - 116123
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Sos silence of suicide - 0300 1020 505
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Some links:
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