The Poetry of Sunshine

Hello this is SunShine coming at you with wisps and wonderings of poems all written on pages of tablets in a state mental hospital and typed up on my relatively inexpensive laptop the one I bought while living in a van by city parks and the river. Here within these pages discover the thoughts of a modern-day diagnosed young woman with bipolar disorder committed and locked up for hearing a sole sentence of a voice from God and well painting all the apartment walls. Bipolar disorder commonly known as Manic-Depression is characterized by extreme changes in mood and behavior. According to the National Institute of Mental Health bipolar disorder affects 2.6% of the population of the United States approximately 5.7% million adults. Many bipolar people are extremely creative and excel in the performing arts music writing painting and photography. I suffered through an episode to find myself homeless 1700 miles from my home and broke and then committed to the state hospital. Poetry has always been a major form of expression for me words spilling on paper like water from a faucet. One thing we could do to mark our individuality locked up was write (and crochet of course). I hope Poems from the Heart of Manic Depression are found to be engrossing and entertaining. Indulge in SunShine Artwork/Photography and the work of contributing photographer Aaron to gladden the eye and lubricate the soul. Gone Scooby with a pallet knife and oils. Sunshine