My memoir Instability in Six Colors is a collection of personal essays, poems, and pastiche pieces that paint a vivid picture of what it is like living with chronic mental illness, trauma, and a complicated relationship with sanity, suicide, and self-love. To tell my story I use six different colors to chronicle the cyclic nature of my life with bipolar disorder, from the neon pink highs of hypomania to the dark black crashes of depression. Ultimately, this book is about finding peace, no matter how many times I lose it; figuring out how to accept my illness without letting it own me; and learning how to love my beautifully imperfect body and resilient glitchy brain.

Trigger Warning: This book addresses themes of suicide, self-harm, depression, and contains sexual conduct.