{"product_id":"9781783820764","title":"Dark Days","description":"I have been in Mental Health Services since 1985, when I had a huge mental breakdown after serving in the Falklands with the army. Since then my life has been something of a rollercoaster of mental illness until meeting my wife Jane seven years ago.\u003cp\u003eI have been in and out of hospital from 1985 until 2009. I had an illness which I attributed to my father and resulted in me stabbing him in 1997 and going to the Edenfield Unit in Prestwich Hospital for 6 years. This is when I started to write poetry to keep myself sane and give me something to focus on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a description of an ex-soldier's opinion of the army, prison, secure mental hospital, the home office and other aspects of life in his recovery journey from committing a crime of wounding with intent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not intended as a rant against a system he found very unsympathetic, but in its own way this is what it is because it could not be anything else.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chipmunkapublishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052293210352,"sku":"9781783820764","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781783820764_p0.jpg?v=1763724963","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781783820764","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}