This is a short general fiction novel. It draws on my own experiences of mental illness and the mental health system and the experiences of people I have met. Names of characters and locations are fictional. When Neil loses everything he values most in life he has a mental breakdown that precipitates a journey through mental illness and the mental health system. Elizabeth is an outgoing, independent career woman who finds herself confined to her home and isolated by agoraphobia. Lyndsay is a schoolgirl mother who ends up teetering on the brink of anorexia. And Katharine is a single parent student struggling with depression. Will any of them manage to regain a better quality of life?