Overview
It's not you, it's the mental health system. A beautifully written journey into our broken system, with radical & empowering advice on how to find your way to wellbeing The mental health system is in trouble. Most people who need help are receiving inadequate treatment, years behind the latest thinking. This life-changing book reveals what really works, and how it can help you. Spurred into researching this topic following his own journey from breakdown to recovery, award-winning writer and broadcaster Horatio Clare speaks to experts from across the system to show how to put together the best treatment plan for you or a loved one. Whether your interest is in anxiety, depression, burnout, insomnia, self-harm, psychosis, an eating disorder, or any one of many conditions of the mind which can be hell to endure, or support someone through, this vital and beautifully written book is for you.
Full Product Details
Author: Horatio Clare
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Life
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 22.30cm
Weight: 0.492kg
ISBN: 9780241641330
ISBN 10: 0241641330
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 29 August 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
There’s no other book quite like it as it takes patients, their relatives, and carers through the treacherous terrain that is the mental health landscape today, giving advice, signposting how to safely traverse the territory and giving hope at the same time -- Femi Oyebode Required reading for anyone with an interest in mental health (and that means all of us). Important, generous, painstakingly researched -- Kate Kellaway
Completely brilliant. Everyone should read it -- Cathy Rentzenbrink Horatio is as wise as he is compassionate -- Chris van Tulleken There’s no other book quite like it as it takes patients, their relatives, and carers through the treacherous terrain that is the mental health landscape today, giving advice, signposting how to safely traverse the territory and giving hope at the same time -- Femi Oyebode Required reading for anyone with an interest in mental health (and that means all of us). Important, generous, painstakingly researched -- Kate Kellaway
There’s no other book quite like it as it takes patients, their relatives, and carers through the treacherous terrain that is the mental health landscape today, giving advice, signposting how to safely traverse the territory and giving hope at the same time
Author Information
Horatio Clare is an award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster on mental health. He presents the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series Is Psychiatry Working? and writes for publications including the Financial Times, Guardian, Telegraph and Daily Mail. Horatio has published many books, including the acclaimed Running for the Hills, A Single Swallow, The Light in the Dark, Down to the Sea in Ships and Heavy Light. If you or a loved one are in a hard mental place now, hang in there. Things can and will get better. This book shows how, and Horatio wrote it for you.
