Description

This is Lorraine's second book with Chipmunka and picks up two years on from the end of her last book. She charts the changes in her life and the changes which she has positively sought in her attempts to live with bi-polar and to live a happy, fulfilling life. This book is honest and uplifting.

About the Author

Lorraine Blackburn is 35 years of age and has bi-polar disorder. She was wrongly diagnosed for 18 years with clinical depression. She has now overcome her condition and wants people to know that they are not alone.

Book Extract

It is now two years since I completed my first book, 'There Will Always Be A Sunrise', which, if you have read it, will give you more meaning to this journey. It is mind blowing how much has changed in the past year of my life: it has been a hurricane, pleasant and a calm on the outside, at times, and then at others, I'm stuck in the eye with chaos flying around inside me. My endeavour for this book is to share what has happened in my life because I feel it often helps others to know someone else has been through similar experiences and survived. More then anything I want to pass the fact across that I am still here and surviving and I am even experiencing really happy times and calmness of mind and that my body is resting. It's all new really and I can vividly bring to mind the feelings of anxiety and depression. I really appreciate the days without them, although I still get times when their claws are snagged against my skin and squeezing my mind. I'm not going to enter into great detail here but my life has taken some extreme ups and downs, including another hospital admission in the private hospital, only for ten days this time, and a couple in the NHS hospital. I hope to delve deeper into my feelings this time as people have asked about this from my last book. I think it was harder last time, due to the length...