Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 06-06-2026 “Maybe it’s not about the problems that can be solved. Maybe it’s about the conflicts in the mind that never go away.” -EaE “Is suicide selfish?” They keep asking. “Suicide is when the brain dies before the body”, that’s my answer. It’s organ failure. After various compounding events, their brainContinue reading “When the Brain dies before the Body”
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Trauma Puzzles Pieced Together
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 7-14-2024 My trauma puzzle poems take you through my life from the ages of 3 y/o to roughly 22 years old. It’s the perspective of what I witnessed, felt and thought about through the majority of my childhood traumas. I keep an element of mystery because 1- it’s not always aboutContinue reading “Trauma Puzzles Pieced Together”
Remember… “You signed up for this”
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 5-26-2023 “How many people can say that they know the look in a person’s eyes who is already dead? Mind made up. Ready to go to heaven. Ready to end it all, and then he did. I will never not blame myself.” -EaE Everyone asks me why I wrote my firstContinue reading “Remember… “You signed up for this””
Cry Baby
Elisa A. Escalante/ LMSW/ 06-04-2020 “You can look at all external factors of a person’s life, and believe that you understand them, or know their pain. But you won’t. Suffering is an internal, emotional bleeding. By the time it is truly seen, it may be too late.” I used to hate myself for being theContinue reading “Cry Baby”
Functionally Mental 