As a psychology student, I jump at any chance to get my hands on any content that deals with mental health. I, myself, have dealt with postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, depression and suicidal ideation, so I am no stranger to mental health issues.

This book gathers experiences of many people in order to confirm to others that You Are Not Alone - because as alone as you might feel, you’re not.

It was an interesting collection of stories and the history of NAMI. I really can’t complain about the content. Of course, I was granted the audiobook from NetGalley, so being able to see if sources were effectively cited is hard to say. There are studies mentioned and I do wish that I could see where these studies came from and read them myself to draw my own conclusions because I don’t take anyone’s word for anything - I gotta see it myself.

The actual gathered stories were explained very well - as in they were clear as to how they collected these stories and what was collected as well as how and any edits that were made. Since they were verbal interviews, they didn’t print it up verbatim in order to remove any fillers we all use like “um”.

I do wish that there had been a few different narrators - having the author read them all landed me on the struggle bus keeping up with when a story was being told and when it was the author himself giving input. This book definitely made me realize I’ve begun relying on the different narrators that are common these days to help me keep up!

I will say that I’m happy the mental health hotline was mentioned and provided because there are so many times that this is essential to living with mental illness for many people - hotlines really do save lives.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ on the audiobook

This was a great read. I loved that it was inclusive and framed lived experience as another type of expertise.I hope there will be a follow-up that goes more into depth about autism. Definitely would recommend!

Bringing mental health to the forefront with real life stories & a physician’s life experience.

Share the knowledge. Truth.

Do you have questions about the way you or someone you know/love thinks? Why you or someone else do what you/they do?

The knowledge & stories within these pages will show you that you/they are not alone. This will help you understand and see what choices are out there because you are not alone!

Easy to listen to. I now want a copy of the physical book.

I read this book last month & have been thinking about it for weeks. Read this book. It’s important.

Thank you