
"Every year, one in four of us suffers from a mental health problem, with anxiety and depression alone affecting more than 500 million people worldwide. Why are these problems so widespread? What is it about modern life that has such an impact on our mental health? Why is there still so much confusion around these issues? And why have we not yet broken the stigma surrounding talking about such topics? In Understanding Mental Illness, neuroscientist and bestselling author Dean Burnett answers these questions and more, revealing what really happens inside our brains when we suffer from mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, and addiction. Combining enlightening scientific research with authentic experience drawn directly from people who deal with mental health problems every day, this is an honest, entertaining, and reassuring account of how these problems happen, why they happen, and how we can truly understand them. Other books by the same author: - The Idiot Brain. - The Happy Brain. - Why It Drives You Are your parents driving you crazy? “Convincing, wise, and rational.” - Jon Ronson “A unique insight into understanding mental health.” - The Guardian About the author: Dean Burnett, author of Making Sense of Mental Illness and 8 other books. - Dean Burnett is a British writer, neuroscientist, and lecturer, best known for his other works: The Idiot Brain, Why Are Your Parents Worried About Your Phone, and Why Are Your Parents Driving You Crazy? Emotional Ignorance: Lost and Found in... The Happy Brain: The Science of...
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