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These excerpts from my diaries are the story of a life changed forever by mental illness. I have Schizoaffective Disorder, an incurable condition characterised by symptoms of both schizophrenia and bipolar. These journal entries, snippets of poetry and monologues are laid before you with brutal honesty as I admit my innermost secrets, my bizarre beliefs and musings, and the extremes of emotion as I cycle through endless episodes of depression, mania and psychosis. I present these diaries with a degree of fear and trepidation as I expose the extent of my madness, for there is still great stigma and misunderstanding of mental illness and those who suffer with it. In publishing these diaries, I hope that for those of you who wish to learn and understand that this book will give you some insight. For those of you who suffer too, I hope that you will take some comfort in knowing you are not alone.

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I was born in Scotland in 1981 and now live in Northumberland. Expressing myself through the written word has been my escape and my passion for as long as I can remember. Much of my work is based on personal experience, but I write in a variety of styles and moods on the many bizarre ideas that flit through my mind. These are often dark, disturbing and intense. I have self-published a diary of my battle with mental illness called 'My Ride on the Crazy Train'. I also have 6 poems published in various anthologies, and am currently working on a collection of short stories, one of which I have entered for the Bridport Prize.

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