Rating: 5 out of 5

I felt this was well written, interesting, engaging, light and yet deep as well. It is, above all, accessible. The kind of book that everyone should read to give them an insight into what anxiety and depression look and feel like.

Highlighted passages:

From Professor Jonathan Rottenberg: We need broader mood literacy and an awareness of tools that interrupt low mood states before they morph into longer and more severe ones. These tools include altering how we think, the events around us, our relationships, and conditions in our bodies (by exercise, medication, or diet)

Doubts are like swallows. They follow each other and swarm together.

Einstein said the way to understand relativity was to imagine the difference between love and pain. ‘When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour’

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