Hope through Poetry

Description Contents Fifty poems relating to mental health and the experience of living with: depression, OCD, anxiety, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, self-harm and suicide. They also look at the effect of mental illness on relationships and include the themes of: family and other relationships; it’s okay not to be okay; self-esteem; building acceptance towards one another; the pressures to conform; power; energy; humour; and the need to live sustainably emotionally as well as physically. The poems are presented in sections: Family, Other relationships, Illness, Emotions, Society, Life and Recovery Please follow and like us: Product Details Author Samantha Crilly Search Inside https://www.book2look.com/book/vKzjqYLBMk About the AuthorSamantha Crilly began to write poetry while recovering from an eating disorder and OCD, finding this the ideal medium for expressing the hidden inner conflicts that underlie mental health issues, especially for her generation. Samantha is now fully recovered from her eating disorder and in recovery from OCD. She is a drama graduate and a regular speaker, with her twin sister Charlotte, for the charity SANE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQV0PB0d2es. Please follow and like us: