Brian Whitfield Whitfield itibaren Iseltwald, Švicarska itibaren Iseltwald, Švicarska

This book is actually amazing so far. As a poet who has suffered mental eccentricities, it's really interesting to read about other people's experiences with depression, bipolar disorder and PTSD. Before I got really sick, I do think I, in a lot of ways, conquered my own PTSD through poetry, and it's nice to read that someone else had the same experience. I definitely am more attracted to the essays that promote therapy and/or medication, or therapy and poetry as a combination, to the ones that treat mental illness as a gift, since so many truly great people have suffered, and who consider the mental illness as part of their creative process. When I was sick, I wrote some things that I think are really clever and/or beautiful in a painful way, but I wrote a lot of shit to get there. And I like the stuff I've written better since I have sought treatment.