Built For Light: An Architecture of Survival

By Mankirat Singh Cheema

Built for Light: An Architecture of Survival is a raw and deeply reflective memoir of psychological crisis, endurance, and reconstruction from the inside out.

Through firsthand experience, Mankirat Singh Cheema chronicles a journey through psychosis, fear, and inner collapse - and the slow, deliberate work of rebuilding clarity, stability, and meaning. This is not just a story of breakdown, but of design: how a life can be re-engineered after it fractures.

Blending lived experience with practical insight, the book explores resilience as a structure - something built through habits, awareness, discipline, and hope. It speaks to readers who have faced mental health struggles, existential crisis, or emotional overwhelm, and offers both honesty and direction without false promises or easy answers.

This memoir is for those searching for light while still inside the storm - and for anyone who wants to understand what survival really looks like from within.

Themes include: mental health recovery, resilience, rebuilding identity, psychological survival, and practical hope.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GM94Q8P9
• ISBN13: 9798247131588
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"