This is a terrific book and I want to give copies of it to so many people - Emily, Owen and Rhianon. This made me wonder to what extent self-acceptance is possible when mental illness stops you from seeing yourself clearly. Instead, it felt like a sub-standad 'how to deal with poor mental health' tool kit book but with nothing we haven't heard before. In school, we learned about the bell-shaped curve and how most of us fell under the middle of the bell.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. during mental health episodes and I think her use of physical ailments to frame discussions of mental ailments. She is co-author of the book Living on Automatic: How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships. I'd recommend this book to anyone because there are tips within it that are things that all of us sometimes forget to implement.Since reading her books, I myself became a mental health mates walk leader which has changed my journey and that of many others. Mental illness has led to some of the worst times of my life… but it has also led to some of the most brilliant. That’s no help to me as someone who isn’t suffering from a dip in mental health but it sure as hell isn’t helpful for someone who is suffering a dip in mental health! Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.

I ended up typing 2 pages of A4 on my own issues with those two and have plenty of information now to use for myself. Initially I liked it: the almost conversational tone, the references to the early days of the pandemic, but the more I got through it, the actual style of writing became annoying (quotations that desperately wanted to sound profound, bullet point lists so long they lost their impact). I was still in academia when the pandemic began and it was useful having some mental wellness tips to share with anxious students.I’ve always been quite a happy fatalist - the apocalypse is coming and it will possibly be my random clumsy fault, but hopefully if I nod and smile, use positive language, keep going with pace and use multiple exclamation marks at the end of each sentence, everything will be fine won’t it! I appreciate Bryony for sharing her personal experiences and breaking down mental health into a daily healing process: looking at everyday interactions and tasks as a place of healing and not focusing on the large tasks. If you feel like the past year has thrown your mental health off it’s usual course or taken you back a few (thousand) steps on your recovery, then I think you’ll find Bryony’s words and her reflections very useful. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.