A Beginner's Guide to Being Mental
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A Beginner's Guide to Being Mental by Natasha Devon
A comprehensive guide to mental health from one of the UK's foremost expertsNatasha Devon's book is a great amalgamation of the continued dialogue around mental health: after nine months as the UK government's mental health tsar, and a lifetime living with mental illness, she shares essential advice in a clear A-Z format, illustrated by Insta-favourite Rubyetc. Wherever you are on the spectrum - because, as she says, "we all have a brain, and therefore a mental health" - you will learn and find useful ways to survive modern life, from anxiety around food to the internet. -- Elle, Big Book Awards Longlist
Natasha Devon MBE is a campaigner who, for the past decade, has toured schools, universities and events throughout the UK to raise awareness and teach others about mental health. She has advised politicians, staged protests both on and offline to effect social change and most recently created the Mental Health Media Charter, to ensure that the landscape of mental health reporting is both responsible and stigma-reducing.
Natasha writes regularly for the Guardian and Telegraph and writes a weekly column for the Times Educational Supplement.
Natasha is a TV and radio regular, making appearances on programmes like This Morning, Channel 4 News, Sky News, LBC and Woman’s Hour. She also featured in BBC3’s How to Live with Women, Channel 4’s Gok’s Teens and presented BBC iWonder Why Do I Earn Less than a Man?
Natasha is a fellow of the University of Wales, Cosmopolitan Ultimate Woman of the Year 2012 and in 2015 the Sunday Times and Debretts named her one of the 500 most influential people in Britain.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781509882229 |
| ISBN 10 | 1509882227 |
| Title | A Beginner's Guide to Being Mental |
| Author | Natasha Devon |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2018-05-17 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Big Book Awards: Health & Lifestyle Award 2018 (UK) |
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