Crisis Mode is a journey of self exploration when that inner voice is deep in the throes of mental illness. It incorporates lessons learned with the daily struggle to do life when the struggle is too much. Crisis Mode reaches towards hope, finding humor and irony in the tools one uses to dig themselves out. This is for anybody who has wallowed in despair and has been told to "tough it out". Or to those who have plastered on a smile but are dying inside. Crisis Mode connects readers through the vulnerability of truth telling, exposing fears and obsessive thoughts to the light. It's not heart breaking. It makes your soul stronger for having taken Koch's journey with her.