Manic Into Light

If you ever wanted to know what it is like to triumph over adversity, then this is the book for you. Robert Porter supposedly had it all - talent, popularity, achievement, and a highly successful legal career with a stable of household names as clients. Then adversity struck in the form of an unexpected nervous breakdown leading to late-onset bipolar disorder. Eventually losing his job to sickness, he found himself in the doldrums for twelve years, fighting for sanity as mental illness ravaged every aspect of his life. Refusing to give in to his condition, Robert persevered and slowly reinvented himself as an author and screenwriter, so that now he is a certified content marketer, SEO strategist and published writer, and one of his screenplays is on the verge of being produced as a film. He has also successfully re-established mental equilibrium, a sense of perspective, and even wisdom, which he shares in this book with great honesty and empathy. Robert's narrative shows how it is possible to forge success from adversity and triumph in the face of mental illness. It is a powerful account of hope, love, aspiration and tenacity - a story ripe for the telling in our times.