It's Not You It's the World

<p><b>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?</b><br><br> 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. <br><br> <i>It's Not You, It's the World</i> 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.<br><br> With a foreword by Gabor Maté, this survival guide offers practical mental health tools to care for both ourselves and our communities.</p>