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Jenny Terrero Rivera’s Brain Matter on 5-West is a collection of both serious and humorous poetry and prose with essays on personal experiences as a mental health patient living with bi-polar manic depressive disorder and how she survived therapy sessions, being an inpatient on the psychiatric ward, and medications. One essay is on the breakdown of her youngest son’s mental health; he developed schizophrenia related to the 9/11 disaster and this theme continues throughout the book. Another essay deals with discovering her son was self-mutilating.

Ms. Rivera also tackles the subject of the spiritual mind and the carnal mind and what God’s word says about the mind and how to find His peace.

She also discusses behavior modification through proper nutrition and how to protect your child, along with help for parents of the mentally challenged.