Residue by Christina Mauro
There is a sway inside me sometimes. A vibration that makes me look around startled. I wonder if it was just a large truck passing by? Sometimes it's a consistent shake and I look to the chandelier to see if it is swinging even if ever so slightly to make sense of how I…
Bingo by Jim Daniels
We played a game called Suicide, never agreeing on rules due to a reluctance to write them down. On the gameboard, a series of paths branched off the edges, over the cliff. The dice, of course, were loaded. She’d been thinking about suicide so long that its hair turned white.…
healing from a car accident by Britney Trachtenberg
i peeled the cut back until it bled and exposed broken bone; until it looked like a cat’s eye on a friday, unblinking as she lit a second bitter match; until the blood would soak through a bandaid; until it smiled like a woman in a sexy dress in…
Prognosis by Nishtha Trivedi
Plunged already too deep into the end times, he’s still a romantic. He brought home a peace lily that yields ardently to overwatering. I wait for it to flower, waiting beats the spiral. Grasshoppers predate grass and still haven’t achieved complete metamorphosis, so…
Anxiety’s Autobiography by Alan Altany
Anxiety freezes bloodto near absolute zeroin searing blizzardsof frantic tremblingcreating fresh scarswith each panic,exploding to bitsevery cry of logicevery wail of reasoninto a fiery cloud of uniquely intensedrama of the souldisguised as fear,trapped in a…
Depression Is a Clogged Sink Drain by Anne-Adele Wight
spilled from their canisterinto the kitchen sinkthe building blocks of matterfloat counterclockwiseeverything flattens into a low graphdomestic vortexwhere a crab nebula drownscalculation on a matchbookdelivers a dismal minus of rainthe dry…
"I decide that it’s better if it remains repressed, tucked away beyond my acknowledgement. A self-made healing after all these years, or a wounding."
Read this incredible account of @pipkinsjoshua.bsky.social
experience with Two Spirit identity and psychosis.
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"Does a tree during winter punish itself for losing its leaves? Does an iceberg in summer punish itself for turning to water? I’m not grieving who I used to be. That person doesn’t exist"
New prose by Bella Melardi up on our website. Give it a read!
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"there isn’t enough sky for heavy clouds
that won’t part or burst, no matter how hard i try."
New, profound poem up on the site by Indian writer, Rohit Karir,
...give it a read!
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Now available where books are sold: The Beast in the Pines is a psychological horror novel about a teenager who explores the New Jersey Pines Barrens in search of the Jersey Devil. This novel is described by readers as "very dark" and "captivating."
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"I had fire in my eyes.
Now there are merely embers.
My pupils, two worn-out wicks."
New poem up by Arshi Mortuza, inspired by Bertha Mason, the so-called “madwoman in the attic” from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
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We've updated our submissions guidelines! We're still open to individual submissions of poetry and prose on mental illness. Consideration of book length manuscripts are on a temporary pause due to volume of submissions. Please click the link to learn more
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Hello everyone! Today we are publishing a prose poem on autism by Joshua Hammond called I’m Still Not Brave Enough, and according to the author, "intends to encapsulate some of what I feel during test taking periods at school."
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Please join us at Sueño Mexican Restaurant in Philadelphia on Sunday, May 25th from 5-7pm as we celebrate the release of Jane-Rebecca Cannarella’s poetry collection, Long Island Sad Poems. Our author will be reading her poetry and books will be available for sale. @anotherintro.bsky.social
"You never saw me administered applesauce with crushed Ritalin. You never saw me smushing my little face against a cold windowpane—a nighttime deluge of strobing blue & red." Two new, powerful poems up on the site by Zach Spruce. Give them a read! serotoninpress.com/2025/05/13/t...
Four new poems are now up on our website! Keti Shea's incredible poems focus on Autism, ADHD, OCD, and neurodivergent anxiety in a haunting display of how mundane objects like door knobs and kitchen appliances can torture the mind. Read these poems!
@ketishea.bsky.social
"It’s perfect for this strange & hurting world.
Beneath my new aluminum ribs, I will split
like an old stone."
Two new poems out by @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social that are devastatingly beautiful and will probably be the most impactful thing you read today.
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Great news everyone, today we published our first poetry book! Please consider buying a copy of Long Island Sad Poems by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella!
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"I wouldn’t wish anxiety on anyone, but anxiety isn’t all bad."
One anxious person to another, true. But our own personal buy-in, how we "know" discordant energies and disordered thoughts are actually our secret survival superpowers (and sometimes they are), can make it so hard to transcend them.
"Anxiety makes me write about my stresses, pushes me to create stories out of thin air, like I’m suddenly a magician, about what it’s like to endure and succeed despite one’s struggles."
New prose poem up by
@kellyesparza.bsky.social about anxiety!
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"I want to heal
my ancestors,
so their spirits feel
lighter on my bones."
Excited to announce the publication of two new poems, "Amid An Awakening, Grief Awakens As Well" and "Ideation To Do List" by Chicana warrior poet Rocío Franco.
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Hey everyone please welcome our newest addition to the Serotonin masthead, @axiopoeticus.bsky.social! Angel Rosen is going to be helping out with submissions. An experienced poet, her "...poetry exists in a realm of mental illness and hope - Plath spaces - and spaces inclusive of everyone."
"I could not help but wonder if mass shooters felt this way. Whether their feelings of powerlessness drove them to their horrific acts. And I thought about their mothers. Whether they could have done anything differently." New prose by Stacie Dubnow! serotoninpress.com/2025/03/26/c...
Got a prose poem accepted for publication by @serotoninpress.bsky.social about the positives of having anxiety. I think a lot of times, we can focus on anxiety being bad, but there are positives that can come out of hardship and struggles.
#mentalhealthawareness
"Strands of hair fall one by one
light brown and brittle, delicate enough
to thread a sewing needle—
My hair? The thread.
My fingers? The needle."
Today we're sharing two new poems by Sarah Smith about self-harm and anxiety. Give them a read at the link!
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"Busy keeps the pull away that unravels
The sound of low bellows always distracting
A little ringing in my ear
Tapping your feet methodically
Tapping my fingers, restless"
New poem up by Rachel Turney. Give it a read! @rachelturney.bsky.social
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"It's no wonder, I finish a poem, and
I am shocked. And I cannot even recognize
the boy, his eyes of black staring back."
New work up by budding Nigerian poet Marvellous Igwe about destruction, disassociation, and writing poetry. Give it a read! serotoninpress.com/2025/02/06/v...
"My body, slick like a baby sliding into a new world."
New poem up on the site: Edge by Yalda Al-Ani, (after Sylvia Plath's Edge). It's a chilling, insomniac reflection on the struggles of creation. Give the full poem a read!
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"Bipolar Disorder is the receptacle in which you place your impermanence, the enormously skittish sense of self you’ve mistaken for actualized ego over the years."
Beyond excited to share this new, powerful essay by @marybuchanan.bsky.social about a psych hospital stay.
"Mortality sits on the coffee table like a knick-knack."
Who else can relate to when physical pain leads to mental pain? How about financial difficulties? If so, read this new poem by Craig Kirchner!
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