Your Journey, Your Way

How to Make the Mental Health System Work For You

Horatio Clare

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English

Penguin Books Ltd
20 March 2025

Social issues & processes; Care of the mentally ill; Psychology: emotions; Mental health services; Coping with personal problems

It's not you, it's the mental health system. A beautifully written journey into our broken system, with radical & empowering advice on how to find your way to wellbeing

The mental health system is in trouble. Most people who need help are receiving inadequate treatment, years behind the latest thinking. This life-changing book reveals what really works, and how it can help you.

Spurred into researching this topic following his own journey from breakdown to recovery, award-winning writer and broadcaster Horatio Clare speaks to experts from across the system to show how to put together the best treatment plan for you or a loved one.

Whether your interest is in anxiety, depression, burnout, insomnia, self-harm, psychosis, an eating disorder, or any one of many conditions of the mind which can be hell to endure, or support someone through, this vital and beautifully written book is for you.

By: Horatio Clare
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 270g
ISBN: 9780241999400
ISBN 10: 0241999405
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 20 March 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Horatio Clare is a writer and broadcaster. He works across the spectrum of mental distress, including with the NHS. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio, including as the writer and co-presenter of the landmark series Does Psychiatry Work? Horatio has written for many publications, including The Times, Guardian and Financial Times. He has published 14 books, including Running for the Hills, A Single Swallow and Down to the Sea in Ships. If you or a loved one are in a hard mental place now, hang in there. Things really can get better. This book shows how, and Horatio wrote it for you.

Reviews for Your Journey, Your Way: How to Make the Mental Health System Work For You

Completely brilliant. Everyone should read it -- Cathy Rentzenbrink A selfless, hopeful book by a writer of vast heart and quiet brilliance, which over its course creates a cartography of the 'paths to recovery' that are open to us all -- Robert Macfarlane Horatio is as wise as he is compassionate -- Chris van Tulleken There’s no other book quite like it as it takes patients, their relatives, and carers through the treacherous terrain that is the mental health landscape today, giving advice, signposting how to safely traverse the territory and giving hope at the same time -- Femi Oyebode Required reading for anyone with an interest in mental health (and that means all of us). Important, generous, painstakingly researched -- Kate Kellaway This is required reading for anyone with an interest in mental health (and that means all of us). It is a really important book, a generous, painstakingly researched rethink on how best to promote recovery. Clare comes across as a fellow-traveller, advocate, friend and, above all, a purveyor of hope An expert in navigating our mental health support services … Horatio shares insights into the latest mental health research, and outlines the encouraging innovations that point towards the future of treatment … Horatio believes everyone can be helped -- Charlotte Heathcote * Daily Express *