'A candid, warm, sad, surprisingly funny, raw, brave, bittersweet
book.' - MATT HAIG 'Chase the Rainbow is a game-changing book.
Poorna Bell's moving account of the pressures on modern men could
be a life-saver. This is a brave and bold work that will inspire us
all to talk openly and honestly about depression once and for all.
Everyone should read this book.' - ARIANNA HUFFINGTON 'I recently
devoured this book in a couple of days. It's so beautifully
written, honest and beyond thought-provoking. I urge you to delve
into its courageously written pages to learn about Poorna Bell's
story.' - FEARNE COTTON 'A story of love and loss and a vital
contribution to the mental health debate. A great read.' - ALASTAIR
CAMPBELL An honest yet uplifting account of a woman's life affected
(but not defined) by the suicide of her husband and the deadly
paradox of modern-day masculinity. Punk rocker, bird nerd and book
lover Rob Bell had a full, happy life. He had a loving wife, a
big-bottomed dog named Daisy and a career as a respected science
journalist. But beneath the carefully cultivated air of machoism
and the need to help other people, he struggled with mental health
and a drug addiction that began as a means to self-medicate his
illness. In 2015, he ended his life in New Zealand on a winter's
night. But what happened? How did a middle-class Catholic boy from
the suburbs, who had an ocean of people who loved him, and a brain
the size of a planet, end up dying alone by his own hand? How did
it get to this point? In the search to find out about the man she
loved, and how he arrived at that desperate, dark moment, Poorna
Bell, Executive Editor of The Huffington Post UK, went on a journey
spanning New Zealand, India and England to discover more about him.
A month after his death, she shared her personal tragedy in an open
letter to Rob on the site, which went on to be read by hundreds of
thousands of people across the world. This is Poorna's story, not
only of how she met the man of her dreams and fell in love, but
also Rob's story and how he suffered with depression since
childhood and had secretly been battling addiction as a means to
cope with the illness. Suicide is the biggest killer of men under
45 and a staggering 1 in 4 of us will experience mental illness
disease at some point in our lives, but the stigma surrounding
mental health means that millions still suffer in silence. Chase
the Rainbow is an affecting, poetic, and deeply personal journey
which teaches to seek hope and happiness, even in the most tragic
of circumstances. Shattering the stigma surrounding depression and
suicide, Poorna Bell challenges us talk about what we most fear,
and to better understand the personal struggles of those closest to
us.
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