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Very personal story on mental health and recovery

Revisado: 07-05-18

It's a very touching and moving personal story about Jonny Benjamin's struggle with his mental illness and his road to recovery. I got this book after hearing Jonny's and Neil's story at a conference. I listened to this book while running and many times I found myself running and crying or close to tears. The reason for this is that Jonny's account of his journey is very open, very sincere and impressively honest. It resonated a lot with my personal experiences. As a practising psychologist, I learned from this lived experience of struggle with mental health difficulties things I could never learn from textbooks and lectures. I also find it very inspiring and hopeful – I want to remind myself about Jonny's story when I deal with situations that seem hopeless and everyone involved starts to feel helpless. As a parent, if found it very shocking in a sense that we might not know what kind of struggles might be torturing our kids, even if try to be caring and supportive parents. Therefore it seems so important that Jonny is sharing his personal story and is doing so much to remove the stigma surrounding mental health. As this stigma makes us hide or ignore our struggles when in fact it would be better for all of us if we were more open about them. Thank you!

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