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A Beginner's Guide to Losing Your Mind: How to Be "Normal" in Your Twenties With Anxiety and Depression

Your twenties can be isolating, infuriating and painful—but how do you stay healthy and realistic when you’re also dealing with depression, mania, or anxiety? Emily Reynolds’s A Beginner’s Guide to Losing Your Mind explores the unique challenges, including: how to deal with pressure at school and college; tips for dating when you are mentally ill (and what to expect when you’re on the other side); handling self-harm and suicidal thoughts; advice for your family and friends; learning how to navigate the internet and the online community; and advice on diagnosis, treatment, and maintaining your mental health.

This is a blackly funny, deeply compassionate, and extremely practical book—a personal account of what it’s like to live with mental illness, a guide to dealing with and understanding it, and a companion to make the journey feel a little less lonely.

“This book isn’t just brilliantly written and welcoming in its tone; it’s honest, practical and important. It is going to help so many people – including friends and family who desperately want to help a loved one but don’t know how.” — Emma Gannon

“Emily Reynolds is a brilliant writer on an important subject. And hilarious too. I need to go and do another thing now, which is annoying, cos I can’t stop reading this brilliant, brilliant book.” — Adam Rutherford

“This is a funny, brutal, kind, sobering, remarkably brave and clear-eyed book. Compelling and necessary.” — Warren Ellis