Do you want to learn more about mental health? Are you struggling with depression, anxiety, self-doubt, or overthinking?
Perhaps you want to understand what someone you love might be dealing with.
In this book, the author walks you through his personal experiences with mental health. He shares a very open and honest account of what it's like to struggle with depression and anxiety. Using short stories and examples from his life to describe the challenges he has faced in a very relatable way. He speaks openly about his real thoughts and feelings to help remove any stigma surrounding the subject.
You will learn all about his unique Four Pillar approach to dealing with depression, as well as the techniques he deployed to overcome his anxiety, self-doubt, and Intrusive thoughts. He brings to life all this advice with real-world examples of how he used them to change his life so you can see easily how to deploy them in your own.
He talks passionately about wanting to help make sure nobody else struggles as much as he did. This is an author that genuinely cares and wants to make a positive difference.
It was dark and it must have been around 11 p.m. at night, early in the year during the winter months. The roads were empty. I was driving on a long, winding country road, on my way home from work.
I had been working late a lot. I was about 23, and the world was in the middle of the 2008/9 recession. I was tired and stressed, and I felt like I was going nowhere. I had felt that way for quite some time because no matter how hard I tried or how hard I worked, no matter how patient I was and how hard I tried to stay positive, it felt like nothing was breaking my way. I had been struggling for a few years at that point, trying to find my way in the world. But I was exhausted. I had been trying so hard for so long; it just felt like it was never going to happen for me. I was depressed and lonely, but above all, I was angry. I was frustrated with the lack of progress in my life. I was far behind the expectations I had put on myself, I wasn’t happy, and I hated myself. I had failed to achieve my potential; I was a worthless nobody, and I didn’t deserve to be happy.
As these thoughts raced through my mind, a wave of emotion came flooding over me. The tears began to flow, and my body began to shake. I was scared. I began to envision a future that involved no happiness that was not momentary or fleeting. All I could see was the dark. A cold and lonely future full of frustration, failure, and misery. I felt so much pain in my heart. I was crying hard. I should not have been driving. I felt so alone. I couldn't take any more of the pain that I was feeling. I wanted it to end. I must have been going at 80 miles an hour. I was over the speed limit and almost willing my car to lose control. I wasn’t looking at the road. I was imagining crashing my car into a tree or hitting a ditch and rolling in a ball of flames. I was willing myself to do it. Tears were streaming down my face. In that moment, I wanted to die.
At least, that’s what I thought.