how fucking awesome is the new album? 1-10?

sinead, i am bipolar also, diagnosed after 20 years of seeking an answer. they kept putting me on antidepressants. mine also really flared when i had my pregnancies and essentially (my 50% anyhow) derailed my marriage. i got diagnosed at 35ish, after my kids were 11 amd 8 yrs old. i absolutely have always had you as my heroine, and i have recently found my own voice in singing and am learning to play guitar. i tried to learn so many songs i loved and really finally found the comfort Zone of my voice while singing and practicing your songs. i would be honored to learn and play them, but really want your blessing to sing what i find to be such original and personal works of art. anyhow, i also sure want to see your tour of the new album, it rocks like your first two. i sing so far away from home and all the songs to my boys to put them to sleep. they're now 14 and 11 and still adore their mommy, thank God. i am their hero, and their daddy too, but they're my boys. they love your songs, when i sing them, as they can hear the lyrics better than on the albums. i just want to thank you, and say, aside from the fame obviously (i'm a total rock star in my own mind)-but the meds have taken a lot of the passion that came along with being like you, severely depressive, more than manic, and i wonder, do you experience that and does it effect your music? it effects my creativity so much. i still love to sing, but writing has gone far to the wayside since my anxiety disorders have gotten in better control. i guess that's my point and question, do you ever struggle with the losses of passion from the meds (though i do, i still know i have to take them because without i become so depressed i can't get out of bed)?