Review: Beautiful Haunting Portrayal of a life scarred by Bipolar Disorder
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 6, 2013
Lotta Bipolar Bits: Survivors Diary Of Living Bipolar, the third book in the Living Bipolar series, written by Sylvia Meier.I must admit this book was my favorite of the three because, it's similar to her second book, Bipolar Bits, in that it's an emotional journal written by Sylvia during her times of Mania, Depression, and during the times in between, That book mainly deals with her adult life, motherhood, and her suicide attempt that she purposely prevented being from successful.Lotta Bits took my favorite parts, the early dark poetry, and she fills this book with them. Sylvia's poetry takes us back to her adolescent years and through the beautiful and dark words she opens up her very painful past for all the world to see. In many ways I feel guilty saying that I enjoyed her poetry because as beautiful as it was it was not beautiful to the young girl who felt as if she was dying from the inside out. These haunting poems are her cries for help from a world who either wouldn't or couldn't recognize her pain and stop it. She also had to deal with an abusive mother, which I can only imagine made everything ten times worse.Upon re-reading I noticed that the entire book is not actually devoted to that time, she also returns to adulthood and her relationship with her partner and children. It was just the childhood portions spoke so much to me that they seemed to fill and influence everything else, which come to think of it I'm sure that all of our childhoods do that to a certain extent.I would recommend this book to anyone with a poetic soul who understand the deep, deep feelings of pain, hopelessness, and despair that mental illness can bring. If you are struggling with Bipolar Disorder, have ever struggled with any sort of mental illness, suffered abuse, or just feel very deeply then buy this book because it will touch your soul.