Born in Solihull, West Midlands, to a Scottish mother and English father, the author recalls being taken to Scotland to stay with her nana as a child. Her father was captured at Arnhem and taken to a prisoner-of-war camp where he was held for nine months. When he was released, he made his way back to England and was sent to recoup in a hospital in Wales. The author was brought back to England to start school at five years of age.
In her later years, she trained as a hairdresser, got married, had two children, both with a very rare condition that has no cure. Her son passed away after experiencing years of mental health issues through panic and anxiety attacks.
This is why mental health, to her, is so important!
These poems are the author’s way of expressing her feelings and thoughts, and a way of coping with mental illness experienced by herself and her family. By putting her thoughts into poems, some sad and some funny, it gives her a sense of belief.She hopes this experiment of hers will help others ou...
I give my thoughts to poetry, and hope my words will convey the stresses and anxiety suffered by my late son and family, to others who suffer from mental health torture, and to hopefully convey the love that held a broken-hearted family together....
One woman portrays two different faces. One looks angelic, while the other is out for what she can get. She has an insatiable lust for sex and does not really care who gets hurt along the way; she cannot see that she is doing anything wrong. But the tables do turn on her, and she has to live and pay...
