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Barb Derrick lived the 1980's in periods of manic heights and depressive lows. Her journey through this time of changing mood swings, undiagnosed, gives the reader an idea of her Bi-Polar life in the 1980's. before and during this time, her disease raged unabated. One can identify with her struggle as she tried to climb out of her supposedly inherited disease. Barb challenges the reader to follow her through this difficult time of yelling fits at her family to "bath-robed" dealing with her children as they guessed which "mother" would greet them each day. Does she find peace at last?

Barb Derrick wrote this book,"Finding Myself in Poetry," as a reflection of her life during her recovery from the depths of her Bi-Polar condition. Each poem is a memory or mirror of her life as seen through her eyes that once again can see the beauty in her everyday life. Still living with her Bi-Polar condition but well under control with medication and monthly visits to her psychiatrist, she is inspired to write when experiencing her "highs" and has very few times of depression. It is with a feeling of elation that she presents this collection of poems, a book that brings her great pride....