A Book You Need To Lose Yourself In: A Book You Need To Find Yourself In

By Henry Stringer

Henry Stringer has been both an employed and self-employed joiner for 32 years. He experienced parental divorce very shortly after his birth. The dynamics of growing up in a split family environment were very stressful times; this created many different challenges which inevitably left him with emotional turmoil and unbeknown to himself, lifelong personal mental health difficulties.
This turmoil inevitably had a knock-on effect in many other areas of his life, then in 2000 he went BANG. Sadly, his mental illness was misdiagnosed. However, with huge support, somehow he fought back to what he felt was 'normal'. Then he became a father, and this had a major impact on his illness. Then in 2018 he suffered a bigger BANG! Thankfully, this time he was diagnosed correctly with Bipolar Type 2 Disorder, with emotional anxiety/stress. So again he is 'fighting', with huge support and correct professional help, he is understanding and becoming clearer about his own personality/identity.
He wrote these poems VERY unexpectedly from his own personal thoughts, these are now inadvertently aiding his recovery. He is still understanding and coming to terms with his mental health condition and then how to manage it. After very positive comments and encouragements, along with a lot of convincing, they have become this book. He hopes that you too may find these poems helpful.
SO NOW,
Open your eyes,
and mind,
LOOK INSIDE,
to see what you find.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jun 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781528999359

Henry Stringer

Henry Stringer experienced parental divorce very shortly after his birth. It left him with lifelong ‘problems’, which only now with professional help have become clearer. The dynamics of growing up with two separate families were stressful times, this created emotional challenges. This turmoil inevitably had a knock on effect in many other areas of his life, which were then compounded when he became a parent. Henry left school at 16yrs old with no real qualifications but became an Apprentice Joiner with a local firm. At 23yrs old he became self-employed, this being a personal goal, this necessitated developing many differing skills which became essential to cover the diverse range of tasks required. He developed good relationships with many people and customers, from all walks of life along with trade suppliers. In 2000 Henry went BANG. Unfortunately, doctors misdiagnosed his condition. Yet with support and understanding from his partner Liz, close friends, customers and trade suppliers, somehow over a period of years fought back to what he felt was ‘normal’. In 2018 he then suffered another BIGGER BANG! Thankfully, this time he was diagnosed correctly with Bipolar Type 2 Disorder with emotional anxiety/stress. He wrote these poems VERY unexpectedly from his own personal thoughts, these are now inadvertently aiding his recovery. Yet he is still understanding his mental health condition and coming to terms with managing it. After very positive comments and encouragement, along with a lot of convincing, they have become this book. He hopes that you too may find the poems helpful. SO NOW, Open your eyes, and mind LOOK INSIDE, to see what you find.

Book preview

A Book You Need To

Lose Yourself In

A Book You Need To Find Yourself In

Henry Stringer

Austin Macauley Publishers

A Book You Need To

Lose Yourself In

About the Author

Dedications

Copyright Information ©

Acknowledgements

Preface

Prologue

A child

A Relationship?

A See Saw

A Soul

Alright?

Are They?

Be Yourself!

Beaten?

Big or Small

Believe and Believing

Can and Will!!

Can You, or Can’t You?

Can You Show Off?

Can You Treat People?

Controlling

Dark and Scary

Different but The Same

Do I?

Do I Have A Problem Or A Gift?

Do It or Deal with It?

Doing What?

Don’t Know What to Do?

Don’t Lie

Educate Who?

Experience

Face It

Friend or Family?

Faster, Slower, Weaker, Stronger

Find and Know Yourself

Finding Who You Are

Frightened?

From? Where? To?

Get A Grip!

Give and Take

Grown Up

Have I The Strength to Be Strong?

Head On Head Off

Hide from Yourself

How to Damage

How to Know Yourself?

Hurt

Hurting?

In A Bubble?

Into the Unknown!

Is it hard?

Is it MONEY or LOVE?

Is It?

Keep On

Knife cut or pin prick

Knowledge

Life is a Picture

Life or Live?

Live Without Money?

Living

Lost and found

Make Your Jigsaw

Manipulation

Moment or Future?

My Ghosts of Life?

Never Forget Them

Not The ‘Same’

One Head or Two?

Perfection

Player or Worker

Punishing

Respect

Right or More Right

Rock and A Hard Place

‘Shut Down – Re-Boot – Start Again’

Something Wrong Within?

‘Speaking’

Stay Flexible

Stop, Think, Do

Take Pleasure!?

Talk or Shout

Talk to Know

Tell Or Don’t Tell!

The Unknown Dark Place

The Fight

The Reason

The Recipe for You

The Roller Coaster

The Wall

They Say, But They Don’t Know, But They Will

They say, I say, I agree

Thinking

Thoughts and Emotions

To Shine from The Dark

To Be Friends?

To Be and See

To Cultivate

To Distract or Not Distract?

To Divert or Not to Divert?

To Talk or Not to Talk?

True Deep Love

Try

Twisted

Understand, Talk, Feel, Pleasure

Volcanoes

Want More?

Want to Be Wise?

Want to See?

Well, Better, Show

What Do You Want?

Whatever,