{"product_id":"9780615826592","title":"Brooklyn's Battle: A Daughter's War with Anxiety and Depression - After a Caterpillar's Darkest Days, It Becomes a Butterfly - There is Hope in Darkness","description":"Read the personal story of how a family survives and thrives in the middle of battling anxiety and depression through faith, dedication, and love.\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn's Battle was brought to life after a small town lost three teenagers to suicide in the three years. The author wages war against the Beast that threatens to take her daughter, Brooklyn, too. Brooklyn's poetry speaks volumes to the agony that millions of teenagers and adults go through daily as they struggle with anxiety and depression. She is able to express through her words the angst millions feel but are unable to vocalize. Her poetry shows the spectrum from the dark side of these disorders to the hope that lies within her. It is her dream that through this book, we can take the shame and stigma away from living with anxiety and depression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe Miss You by Brooklyn Belair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou were a flower in bloom.\u003cbr\u003eYou were a butterfly in a cocoon.\u003cbr\u003eSo close to brighter days.\u003cbr\u003eSo many more birthdays\u003cbr\u003eTo be had.\u003cbr\u003eThe things in your head were bad,\u003cbr\u003eTelling you it's never going to get better,\u003cbr\u003eLeaving us with a letter\u003cbr\u003eSaying I love you.\u003cbr\u003eI wish you had a clue\u003cbr\u003eHow much we miss you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Excerpt)\u003cbr\u003eChapter One - War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe battle that goes on in Brooklyn's head is unexplainable to me and to so many that know her. Every time I think we have a handle on it, something else triggers it, and the Beast rears its ugly head. Anxiety, depression-they are fighting with my daughter. Some days they are ahead in this battle, and their victory feels so close that I feel her slipping away. Other days my grip is stronger, and I find more ways and reasons for her to hold on to this world. It is a never-ending battle; from every waking moment, I am at war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe war is ongoing and real, yet completely invisible until you see her scars. Some of our children wear their scars on the outside, some on the inside. They are in pain. They are the victims of a war that no one wants to talk about, especially them. Adults find shame in it, so how do we expect our children to understand that it's okay not to be okay? How do we explain and communicate with our children something that most of us adults don't understand? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou see, in our hometown, we have lost three teenagers to suicide in the past three years. It haunts me; it haunts all of us. Three lives in our little town gone, but not forgotten. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose three lives saved my daughter's life. They shook my world and woke me up to the reality of what was happening before my very eyes, in my own home. We will always honor them in our hearts and in these words that we write in the hopes that, through this book, others will know that it's okay not to be okay and that it does get better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWitness the challenges and triumphs of a family as they face anxiety, depression, and the chronic pain of RSD\/CRPS with love, faith, and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brooklyn's Battle, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49786866008304,"sku":"9780615826592","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615826592","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}