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Essence B Scott

Essence B Scott

Dreams of My Father: Processing

I had a dream about my parents last night. The dream was angry toward my father (which is nothing new). He started talking to me about God…

Jun 3, 2017

Jun 3, 2017

Essence B Scott

Get Me Back on My Feet

This process is long and arduous. Recovery is not easy, nor is it pretty. Blythe Baird puts it perfectly in her poem “Relapse.” Personally…

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

Essence B Scott

I Barely Have the Patience to Tell My Father Hello

My mom and I got into a deep discussion about my dad when I mentioned to her that I did not want him to see me graduate from college and…

May 3, 2017

May 3, 2017

Essence B Scott

Trying to Break the Coffee Habit

I am trying to get rid of this habit. While coffee does help me to get the words down, and it does make me feel good, I know that drinking…

May 3, 2017

May 3, 2017

Essence B Scott

Mental Illness Manifest: Tales of Denial from Someone Who Claims to Care

My boy/best friend tells me regularly that I do not have depression. On the days where I have to fight the urge to sleep for another couple…

Apr 6, 2017

Apr 6, 2017

Essence B Scott

I’m So Scared for My Niece’s Future, & I Feel I Have to Do SOMETHING

I have an adorable two-year-old niece, Raelyn. She is a little Black girl, raised by a Black man (my brother) and a Black woman (my…

Mar 29, 2017

Mar 29, 2017

Essence B Scott

Comin’ Thru 4 Me

I have been doing so much writing lately that it isn’t funny. I tell myself to write as much as I can, when I can — I need the mental…

Mar 22, 2017

Mar 22, 2017

Essence B Scott

Did Solitude Look Good On Me?

In the fall of 2014, I’d decided that I needed to get some space from my boy/best friend, then of a year, and move back in with my mother…

Mar 14, 2017

Mar 14, 2017

Essence B Scott

Stories I Would Like to Tell at Age 64

I hope that, at age sixty-four, I am not a mystery to the people who know me. I hope to live in a world where mental illness is not a taboo…

Mar 14, 2017

Mar 14, 2017

Essence B Scott

Have to Clear My Head

The past few weeks have been really trying my patience. There are days when I cannot hear myself think. This happened last Wednesday when I…

Mar 14, 2017

Mar 14, 2017

Essence B Scott

Essence B Scott

Writing about family relations, coffee addiction, and my mental illness. Working on poetry about family relations, coffee addiction, and self love.

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