What's Normal Anyway? Celebrities' Own Stories of Mental Illness
✍ Scribed by Gekoski, Anna; Broome, Steve
- Book ID
- 108695681
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 617 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781472105189
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
With one in four people in the UK suffering from some sort of mental illness in their lifetime, everybody knows somebody who is affected. It could be a family member, friend, neighbour, or colleague; now, or one day, it could be you.
Through candid first-person accounts from some of the most well-known people in their fields - including an actor, footballer, TV presenter, Olympic medallist, two politicians, and a broadcaster and author - this book illustrates how nobody is immune from mental illness.
Talking bravely and openly, the celebrities featured here tell their own personal stories of depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, nervous breakdowns, suicide attempts and psychiatric wards. Their accounts lay bare the depths of their suffering, the effect on their families, their experiences of stigma, and their passion to fight the social taboos still attached to mental health...