Your Journey, Your Way: How to Make the Mental Health System Work For You

· Random House
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384
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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.

‘Completely brilliant. Everyone should read it’ Cathy Rentzenbrink

‘Horatio is as wise as he is compassionate’ Chris van Tulleken

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.

‘A selfless, hopeful book by a writer of vast heart and quiet brilliance, which over its course creates a cartography of the 'paths to recovery' that are open to us all’ Robert Macfarlane

About the author

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.

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