It's Not You, It's the World
eBook - ePub

It's Not You, It's the World

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

It's Not You, It's the World

About this book

What if our mental health struggles aren't signs that we're broken, but proof that we're responding normally to a world in crisis?

Today, one in two of us will be diagnosed with a mental health condition by the age of 40. Rather than viewing this as individual failure, clinical professor and psychiatrist Joanna Cheek argues that our symptoms are often brilliant alarms – our defence systems working exactly as they should in response to threatening circumstances.

It's Not You, It's the World is the essential guide for anyone feeling depressed, anxious, enraged or overwhelmed by adapting to a chaotic world. Drawing on extensive cross-cultural research, years of clinical experience, and her own journey as a patient, Dr Cheek demonstrates how self-improvement alone neglects the source of our suffering. To truly heal, we must address the imbalances in our wider systems that keep making us all sick.

With a foreword by Gabor Maté, this survival guide offers practical mental health tools to care for both ourselves and our communities.

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Information

Publisher
Canongate Books
Year
2026
eBook ISBN
9781837263400
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Self Improvement

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword by Gabor Maté, MD
  7. Introduction: It’s Not You, It’s the World
  8. 1: We’ve Evolved to Survive, and be Miserable
  9. 2: Self-Care is Collective-Care
  10. 3: A World Inflamed
  11. 4: We are our History
  12. 5: How to be an Anti-Asshole
  13. 6: De-Hijacking our Brains
  14. 7: Getting Out of our Heads
  15. 8: Don’t Believe Everything You Think
  16. 9: Taking Back the Reins
  17. 10: Staying in Connection
  18. Epilogue: The Gift of Impermanence
  19. In Gratitude
  20. Notes
  21. Index

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