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 The Ebook, priced at £5 is available to download from Chipmunka Publishing
 The Paperback edition, priced at £17 including postage can be purchased directly from Chipmunka Publishing or from Rethink. Purchasing from Rethink will help improve the lives of people experiencing mental health difficulties across the UK
 Additionally, the paperback can be ordered from online retailers Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.  A Kindle Edition is also available.
 
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Bipolar Disorder (formerly known as manic depression) affects 1 in every 100 people – approximately 1% of the population. With symptoms such as mania (having racing thoughts, grandiose ideas, and being reckless), depression, and occasional psychosis (hearing or seeing things that aren’t there, or having delusional ideas).

The Fire in Your Eyes captivates the experience of bipolar disorder, enabling readers to understand exactly what it’s like to experience the illness. Luci is a fiesty, engaging character, and her battle to learn to control the symptoms of her illness is both tragic and uplifting.

There is fire in your eyes, and it frightens me....
 
At the age of twelve, Luci cannot possibly comprehend what her mother means by those words – and her mother’s suicide just hours later means she cannot ask. But the words will come to haunt Luci in the years to come as she battles with the highs and lows of undiagnosed manic-depression.

The tragic death of her twin brother at the age of seventeen marks the beginning of a rollercoaster ride of intense emotion that pushes Luci to the very limits of her endurance. Her manic recklessness has far-reaching consequences, for both Luci and her extended family, and the accompanying episodes of depression leave Luci teetering on the thin line between life and death.

When Luci meets Ben, she actually dares to hope that he might be the one person who can keep her on an almost even keel. But when tragedy steals Ben from her just weeks before their wedding day, Luci is left despairing of ever being happy as her tempestuous moods spiral once again out of control.

Luci’s hopes of happiness are rekindled when she finds love in an unexpected quarter, but as the rollercoaster ride becomes ever more extreme, an episode of psychotic mania threatens everything Luci holds dear, culminating in her hospitalisation and diagnosis with bipolar affective disorder (manic depression).

By turns funny and tragic, The Fire in Your Eyes thrusts the reader deep into the tumult that is untreated manic-depression, a real rollercoaster of a ride.

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