Hello. Before I get started, please feel free to remove this post if it breaks any rules. This is not self promotion; I'm not pushing a product or anything that will generate money for me. 

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That being  said, I would like to tell you guys about Poetry For Your Brain. Its an organization that I created, a sophomore student from Texas, who struggles with depression and anxiety. These have been huge obstacles in my life, and I constantly wake up with a sense of dread about my day to day life. I don't look the part, I rarely act the part, but every day is a struggle to keep my head up.

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I was in class one day, and a friend of mine started talking about Poetry and how it helped her before she went to bed. I of course was thinking, if it could help her, why not me? I tried it, I wrote a quick poem about myself in class, and, apologies for the cliche, it helped immediately. I felt like someone understood me when no one else could, just the words on the page, even if behind those words was me. I was talking to myself in a sense, and it helped. A lot.

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Six months ago if someone told me I would write poetry I would just laugh and say "No, I wouldn't," yet circa February 26th here I am, almost reliant on it for a pseudo-emotional support. It's crazy. I write not on a schedule, but whenever I'm feeling like the world is screwing me over. I don't write to satisfy a meter or rhyme or amount of syllables, I write how I want to write with the words that I chose so I can help myself. It has and is helping me in ways no amount of therapist or friends, no matter how amazing they are, could help. 

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About the nonprofit, I will link it [here](https://poetryforyourbrain.org). The website, all the work done into the organization itself, and the event I will mention later, was done by me, with guidance by a few peers and helpers. I have a forum, where people can post their works of poetry and talk about them to others, or comment on other people's poetry. I have a page for the science behind what I'm sprouting to you right now, pages about my event, and my own personal works. I encourage you to check it out.

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I am hosting an event, down in my local area (found on site), where people can come and listen to a presentation by a guest speaker, Laura Long, who is a Doctorate student at University of Houston. I will have my two sponsors, Amy Wine Counseling and H.O.P.E Psychotherapy, come in to be available to talk with. We will also have a Reading &amp; Writing workshop where attendees can find out and try writing poetry themselves. 

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Please, if you want to gild this, or offer money, don't. I have a link on my site to Mental Health America, a charity that focuses on the caring, assisting, and providing for people who struggle with mental illness. Put your money into them so they can continue their great work.

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I am going to put this on a few subs, so I apologize in advance. Once again, this is not self promoting. I do not make any money off of this. This is for me to provide you guys a difference and perhaps unorthodox way to help yourself. 

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Thank you,

Poetry For Your Brain