This is a book about getting unwell. About losing direction and hope. About imagining that we have let ourselves and everyone down. But it is also a book about getting better. About rediscovering meaning and finding a way back to connection and joy. Here, Alain de Botton follows the arc of a mental health journey, from crisis to recovery. Written with understanding and kindness, it is both a source of companionship in our loneliest moments - whether it''s a relationship breakdown, a career setback or an anxiety around the everyday - and a practical guide that will help us find reasons for hope. Praise for Alain de Botton: ''What he has managed to do is remarkable: to help us think better so that we may live better lives'' Irish Times ''Alain de Botton likes to take big, complex subjects and write about them with thoughtful and deceptive innocence'' Observer ''One of our most consistently illuminating writers on contemporary culture'' John Gray, New Statesman

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Alain de Botton is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including The School of Life: An Emotional Education, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love. He is the founder of The School of Life (theschooloflife.com).

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**AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETT

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The School of Life**

This is a book about how to optimise your mental health. Written with kindness and sympathy, it is a practical guide to emotional well-being, calm and psychological maturity.

Alain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety of mental challenges, from the mild to the severe. It considers how and why we can get overly anxious or low; how we can best understand our pasts and how they shape us; and how we can build resilience, so as to live wisely alongside certain difficulties.

At heart this is a book about psychological happiness - about discovering equilibrium and meaning, and finding our way to connection and joy.

'This book does a wonderful job of making you realise that the thing you're going through, and the way that you are, isn't evidence of your inadequacy. It's actually evidence that you are perfectly human' Steven Bartlett, author and host of The Diary of a CEO

'One of our most consistently illuminating writers on contemporary culture' John Gray, New Statesman