This author delves into profound and often challenging aspects of mental health. With candor and vulnerability, they share personal experiences with depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, trauma, and body image. However, their work promises a balanced perspective, steering clear of unrelenting bleakness. Through their writing, they offer readers insight and a deeper understanding of the complexities of the human psyche.
A heartbreaking, hilarious exploration of one young woman's quest for happiness in a world defined by her depression. For fans of Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive and Bryony Gordon's Mad Girl.
Paperback edition of the first biography of a long-forgotten and unfairly overlooked character from English history
"What no one tells you about living with anxiety and depression--learned the hard way. Maggy van Eijk knows the best place to cry in public. She also knows that eating super salty licorice or swimming in icy cold water are things that make you feel alive but, unlike self-harm, aren't bad for you. These are the things to remember when you're sad. Turning 27, Maggy had the worst mental health experience of her life so far. She ended a three-year relationship. She lost friends and made bad decisions. She drank too much and went to the ER over twelve times. She saw three different therapists and had three different diagnoses. She went to two burn units for self-inflicted wounds and was escorted in an ambulance to a mental health crisis center. But that's not the end of her story. Punctuated with illustrated lists reminiscent of Maggy's popular BuzzFeed posts, How Not to Fall Apart shares the author's hard-won lessons about what helps and what hurts on the road to self-awareness and better mental health. This is a book about what it's like to live with anxiety and depression, panic attacks, self-harm and self-loathing--and it's also a hopeful roadmap written by someone who's been there and is still finding her way"--
Authors: Clarissa AngusKatherine BlackMaggy van EijkHarriet GoodaleDeborah HambrookClaudine LazarRachael SmartRuth StarlingAlison WassellLaura WilkinsonEditor: Richard PennyTen new women writers showcase an exceptional collection of poetry and prose. An incendiary blend of cerebral and visceral, this anthology presents a broadened view of the personal, political and social spectra. The unsettling beauty of the language is rendered sharp and transgressive, shot through with high-calibre comedy.Expect full-bodied and full-blooded.Grey areas of the gender-jungle and identity are explored alongside matters of love, family, relationships and sex, making for stark writing that is vital, refreshing and life-affirming.
Cztery stożki popiołu czerniły się na wyłożonej drewnem podłodze. Stanął na środku pokoju, czując wzbierającą w nim wściekłość. Jedyne, co pozostało po jego braciach, to dym i delikatny swąd spalenizny. [...] Bezwiednie zacisnął pięści. Nadchodził czas zemsty.Od setek lat toczy się walka między dwiema organizacjami skupiającymi nadnaturalne istoty: służącą dobru Gwardią i opowiadającym się po stronie zła Zakonem, które pragną posiąść kamienie dające potężną moc. Gdy jeden z nich dostaje się w ręce Zakonu, staje się jasne, że Gwardia musi zrobić wszystko, by odnaleźć ten drugi, od dawna zaginiony. Czas ucieka, a stawka jest wysoka...