A collection of poems written by Maria O'Hare, which were written during some of her most traumatic life experiences, and during periods of severe mental illness, particularly bipolar disorder. Between the ages of twenty and thirty, Maria was sectioned in a psychiatric hospital nine times equating to nearly two years of her life, for reasons from severe depression, severe mania, post traumatic stress disorder and psychotic episodes. Throughout this decade of her life she suffered more tradgedy than most people will experience in their whole life time. This book is devided into three parts, each based upon an emotional state of mind, so this book will take you on an emotional journey from the darkest and most painful states of mind that any human being can experience, through to an obscure and different world from our own, that is only experienced during psycosis, and finally to a heart felt and much desered emotionally charged positive recovery. The poems in this book cover all aspects of life from pain, suffering and grief, to love, life and recovery. This book starts with a brief autobiography of the authors shockingly traumatic rollercoaster of a life, so you will be able to engage completly in the heartfelt and brutly authentic emotions that these poems convey. The author has a blog and a youtube channel which you can access for free to acompany this beautiful collection of poems. She also has created a website in which individuals share their own personal experiences of mental illness in an aim to promote the breakdown of the stigma which is still unfortunately surrounding mental illness. You can find the author on Twitter @PixieWings8 where she has a continually increasing fan base of followers which currently stands at around 25,000. This is a must read collection of poems that really illustrates the workings and emotions of someone suffering with multiple mental illnesses from real life experience, including bipolar disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.