Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive but not how to live. She leads a simple life, following the same weekly routine for her whole adult life, which includes buying the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend.

Eleanor is happy, but one simple act of kindness is about to shatter her walls. Suddenly she must face the dark corners of her traumatic past which she has happily avoided up until now and learn to navigate the world in a new light.

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Bryony Gordon has OCD. It’s caused alopecia, bulimia, and drug dependency. A successful columnist, a bestselling author, and a happily married mother of an adorable daughter, Bryony has managed to laugh and live well while simultaneously grappling with her illness. Now it’s time for her to speak out. Bryony explores her relationship with her OCD and depression. Mad Girl is a celebration of life with mental illness.

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While some forms of anxiety are natural, even helpful, anxiety disorders can lead you into a spiral of stress and worry and interfere with your everyday life. Practical, supportive and uplifting, this is a journal for anyone who struggles with anxiety, whether in the form of phobias, social anxiety, generalized anxiety or day-to-day worrying. The Anxiety Journal encourages you to use CBT techniques and mindfulness exercises to help you better understand your anxiety and help you to achieve peace and calm.

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Having spent her life trying to patch up the souls of others, psychiatrist Linda Gask came to realise that being an expert in depression didn’t confer any immunity from it – she had to learn to take care of herself, too. She sets out to convey how it truly feels to experience this devastating illness, what psychotherapy is about, and the role of medication – and provides hope for those who suffer from depression and their loved ones whilst busting the stigma of mental illness.

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Stephen Grosz’s The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves is a collection of case stories based on his 25 years as a psychoanalyst. Many of the issues raised are familiar to us all – psychoanalysis or no psychoanalysis. They range from loneliness, lovesickness and envy, to fear of death, hate and paranoia. There’s something completely unpretentious, caring and sympathetic about Grosz, his patients and their conversations.

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‘The paradox of grief is that finding a way to live with the pain is what enables us to heal’ Samuel writes, hence her paradoxically uplifting title Grief Works. Samuel takes us through cases from her long career as a grief counsellor with examples of people losing a partner, a parent, a child, a sibling or facing their own death. Every chapter has a section with specific, practical advice.

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A Fool, Free is the extraordinary story (allegedly fiction, but suspiciously similar to the author’s own life) of schizophrenic Swedish/Norwegian Eli, a successful filmmaker and author. Eli battles the many personas inhabiting her mind, medication (too much or too little) and nurses and doctors with a varying degree of understanding of how best to treat her. An enlightening look at a mental illness shrouded in myths and fear.

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Black Rainbow is the powerful first-person story of one woman’s struggle with depression and how she managed to recover from it through the power of poetry. Rachel Kelly analyses why poetry can be one answer to depression and shares 40 poems that provided her with solace and comfort during her breakdown and recovery. Poetry is free, has no side-effects and ‘prescribing words instead of pills’ can be an incredibly powerful remedy.

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Andrew Solomon narrates his own agonising experience of depression and portrays the pain of others, in different cultures and societies, whose lives have been shattered by depression. He takes us to mental hospitals, research labs and faith healers around the world. He analyses the medications of today, reviews the politics of diagnosis and treatment and looks at the vital role of will and love in the process of recovery.

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