No Such Thing as Normal: From the author of Glorious Rock Bottom

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I think it would be really helpful for people who have or have had mental illness or have loved ones that do. I'm highly ambivalent about it, after more than a year of daily mindfulness meditation that, if anything, made me more anxious. but then thankfully with an urge to experience a new day, my happy apologetic side would ask if it needs to come forward, we’d have the quick chat and they could go back to bed. It certainly got me thinking about mental health and how generalisable advice about it can reasonably be. A practical guide to mental health from leading mental health campaigner and bestselling author, Bryony Gordon.

It's very much a "here's what I've learned that might be helpful to others" kind of vibe, and she is very clear that she is not a MH professional, merely speaking from experience. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. 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. We may think that normality does exist because of the sizable numbers of people who don’t seek psychological treatment. The Anxiety Sisters' Survival Guide: Manage Worry, Panic, and Fear and Become Hopeful, Connected, and (Anxiously) Happy tried to cover every possible anxiety symptom and treatment option, which became quite overwhelming.This made me wonder to what extent self-acceptance is possible when mental illness stops you from seeing yourself clearly. I'm a little uncomfortable with absolute self-acceptance: we live in a society and should be willing to see flaws in ourselves. If you've found yourself in a bit of a rut of late, these warm, wise words could be just what you need.

I remember thinking "oh, bright cover, I like it" and that's about it when I saw this book 🤣 But with the bright cover, comes a very nice guide to mental health. My mum picked this book up from the community book shelf in Macknade, and we have both been reading/listening (Audible) together. Filled with agencies and charities that can help in any situation, humor as well as hard hitting facts, this is a book that stands out on the crowded self help shelves. I loved this short, practical guide to mental wellness, including a chapter on lockdown that chimed deeply with me. Perhaps it's the shyness and introversion, but I'm not comfortable sharing a lot of personal details of my mental health with total strangers.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! Since reading her books, I myself became a mental health mates walk leader which has changed my journey and that of many others. In Sweden, for example, I learned the word “lagom” (meaning “not too much”), which is an expression of humbleness. As if I was the only one holding the absolute truth and the “right” way of perceiving the world, and anything else was either strange or abnormal.