How to Forgive Yourself in Fifteen Years

By Rebecca M Milton

How to Forgive Yourself in Fifteen Years is Rebecca's first poetry collection. Its twenty-one poems chronicle her journey towards recovery from a mental breakdown. The collection is an examination of the symptoms of chronic depression and anxiety disorder, tackling topics from relationships to suicide and self-harm.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Melodious Tear
• Release date: Aug 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9781999763534

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Rebecca Milton

How to Forgive Yourself in Fifteen Years

First published by Melodious Tear 2019

Copyright © 2019 by Rebecca Milton

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For Ben - I haven’t given up just yet.

Contents

Foreword

Phoenix

there are days

Panic

Achievement Hunter

anxiety

Impossible

Eye Contact

on this day

Intrusive Thoughts

Memory

scars

my depression’s internal monologue

Raindrops

oblivion

like the tide

chasm

isolation

Words

found

forwards, ultimately

giving up

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Fifteen years ago, when I was at sixth form, I had a breakdown. I didn’t know the words depression or anxiety when I was seventeen. I certainly didn’t know the words self harm and