AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETTFrom the Sunday Times bestselling
author of The School of Life A healthy mind knows how to hope hanging on tenaciously to the
reasons to keep going. A healthy mind resists unfair comparisons not allowing others¿
successes to throw it off course. A healthy mind avoids catastrophic imaginings distinguishing
worries of what could happen from what likely will. Just as there is no such thing as a human
being who will never become physically ill there is no human who will go their whole life
without becoming mentally unwell. But recognising ourselves when we¿re well can do a lot to
help us identify what can go awry. Written with his signature kindness and empathy this book
is Alain de Botton¿s practical guide to caring for our mental health ¿ from the acts of
self-care in which we find respite to the help which psychotherapy can bring. Mental illness is
as common and as unshameful as its bodily counterpart. We should be no more reluctant to seek
help than we are if we develop a chest infection or sore knee - and we are no less worthy of
love and sympathy in those moments. This book is a reminder of that. 'Alain de Botton is a
brave and highly intelligent writer' Observer 'One of our most consistently illuminating
writers on contemporary culture' John Gray New Statesman
