Young Advocate’s Poetry Book Offers Mental Health Support And Outreach

Young poet and mental health advocate Aisha Tariqa Abdul Haqq has two incredibly powerful new poetry collections that reflect the glaring issues with community support for mental health in the US. Go to https://www.aishatariqa.com/landing-page to find out more.

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Mental Health Aisha Tariqa Mental illness community depressed offer struggle thoughts suffered

Young Advocate’s Poetry Book Offers
Mental Health Support And Outreach
If you have suffered from a mental illness,
you know that although people say that
mental health is only in the mind, so is
everything else. Everything is in our heads,
meaning that when you are depressed,
every aspect of your experience is tainted
by your sorrow. 
That's why Aisha Tariqa Abdul
Haqq is making her passionate
poetic appeal that we take
mental health care as seriously
as we take broken bones and
cancer.
Her two new poetry books, titled
‘Four Years in Chrysalis’ and
‘Acres of Shadow’, seek to
challenge the pervasive stigma
about mental illness that still exists
in American society. 
Her new poetry renders both the
conception of mental health as
inessential and ignorable, and the
way this perception quickly
crumbles when a significant event
occurs from neglect of care that
rocks a community.
The release of her new collections
coincides with Mental Health Awareness
Month, which takes place every May. This
countrywide event offers you an
opportunity to reach out to the community
members whom you observe to be
struggling and offer an ear and a hand. 
With 1 in 5 American adults, some
53 million people, now experiencing
depression or similar mental health
struggles, Aisha Tariqa believes
this May is the perfect time to show
your compassion.
Her deeply powerful autobiographical poetry
conveys to you her own experiences of
suffering from depression and living with
suicidal ideation. Her own struggle was
compounded by that of a friend in her
community who was also battling mental
illness, and who ultimately ended their own
life. 
Aisha Tariqa wants to share some
of her poetic words of empathy
and outreach with you in the hope
that they can connect with those
who have shared in the burden of
poor mental health. 
"Psychosis is a stabbing in the back A
shadow of normalcy My every day Just
mere minutes from reality A horror story in
my mind Second in and second out I am,
often times, left panting for breathing At
the lack of space between me and my
thoughts Those thoughts..."
"Those seething tar splattered things I
reason with them But am left panicked
still That they might be true A daunting
story The thoughts might be true And if
so, what kind of world am I living in?
And the screams I feel rising in my
chest..."
Go to
https://www.aishatariqa.co
m/landing-page to find out
more.