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Living Better - How I Learned to Survive Depression (Hardcover)
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Living Better - How I Learned to Survive Depression (Hardcover)
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List price R534
Loot Price R436
Discovery Miles 4 360
You Save R98 (18%)
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Last Christmas I almost killed myself.
Almost. I've had a lot of almosts. Never gone from almost to deed.
Don't think I ever will. But it was a bad almost. Living Better is
Alastair Campbell's honest, moving and life affirming account of
his lifelong struggle with depression. It is an autobiographical,
psychological and psychiatric study, which explores his own
childhood, family and other relationships, and examines the impact
of his professional and political life on himself and those around
him. But it also lays bare his relentless quest to understand
depression not just through his own life but through different
treatments. Every bit as direct and driven, clever and candid as he
is, this is a book filled with pain, but also hope -- he examines
how his successes have been in part because of rather than despite
his mental health problems -- and love. We all know someone with
depression. There is barely a family untouched by it. We may be
talking about it more than we did, back in the era of 'boys don't
cry' - they did you know - and when a brave face or a stiff upper
lip or a best foot forward was seen as the only way to go. But we
still don't talk about it enough. There is still stigma, and shame,
and taboo. There is still the feeling that admitting to being sad
or anxious makes us weak. It took me years, decades even to get to
this point, but I passionately believe that the reverse is true and
that speaking honestly about our feelings and experiences (whether
as a depressive or as the friend or relative of a depressive) is
the first and best step on the road to recovery. So that is what I
have tried to do here.
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