Living with the Neighbors: Poetry and Prose

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Living with the Neighbors is a memoir of the author's journey through severe mental illness and recovery. It is an intimate portrayal of what it is like to live with this condition, beginning her recovery at a peer-run, farmhouse retreat located in the Green Mountains of Vermont. There, the natural landscape and writing poetry becomes a source of healing. The author's trauma-induced auditory hallucinations that she has come to call "the neighbors," are one of the central symptoms that she shares with readers so they can understand what it is like to live with such an affliction.