McIntosh is a talented psychiatrist and neuroscientist that gives great insight into what depression is and what it can do to your mind and body. She is compassionate, supportive and informative throughout. It’s not only helpful for those suffering from depression but also for friends/family of someone who is depressed. Even trained health care professionals can benefit from the knowledge in this book. There is so much useful information and advice throughout. She argues how the findings in neuroscience can aid recovery. And backs all of her claims up with scientific evidence.

2. We’ve Been Too Patient by Liz Demi Green and Kelechi Ubozoh

If you’re struggling with mental health and feelings of hopelessness often, please read this book. The authors are very positive, optimistic (and realistic) throughout and it will remind you that life has much value. Greens and Ubozohs words are so impactful and important in a society that still has a great deal of development to go in the mental health system. This book offers many different perspectives to change our views on mental health and the world around us. She covers so many different areas of mental health such as overmedication, traumas, suicidal thoughts, involuntary hospitalization and so much more.

3. This Too Shall Pass by Julia Samuel

If you’re going through any difficult time in life, Julia Samuel is definitely someone to turn to. This novel is beautifully written in a way that is very informative but also gives readers comfort and reassurance throughout. She presents a lot of different scenarios with many anonymous characters’ life stories that give a deep insight into their lives. The main message is – unfortunately, we will all experience difficult times at some time in our lives. But we must trust that we will overcome them and everything will be good in the end. And once we accept and embrace change and bad times we will set ourselves free in the knowledge that it’s only temporary and will pass.

4. Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting by Terri M. Williams

Williams has studied practically every aspect of African-American life. In this book, she explains the subject of black oppression in an incredible and honest way. Her main aim is to shine a light on mental health issues in the black community by telling her own story in the hope she can help others. She states that mental health issues are almost taboo in the black American community and how damaging this view is. Therefore, she highlights many sources available and helpful advice to overcoming problems. The book uncovers many coping mechanisms that she believes black people often adopt to deal with the oppression they face and to not feel isolated. Williams offers a supporting hand to anyone struggling and is optimistic for a brighter future.

5. Own Your Self by Kelly Brogan

Brogan discusses the mental health system in-depth and how it is failing people by making them believe false beliefs. Such as ”I am bad” or ”I am not normal”. She advocates that feelings such as anger, sadness, shame, worry are all OK and completely normal and healthy. Every human being will experience these feelings at some point and you should never feel ashamed but instead embrace them. They are real and make us who we are. She identifies that the problem lies with feeling too much negative emotion. This is when we need acceptance, reflection and transformation. She suggests many more effective ways to helping these people, where the mental health system is currently failing.

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Kahneman wrote this book with the aim to change the way people think about thinking. He explains how two main systems determine the way we think and make choices – everyday ones and life-changing ones. He explains how we make choices with both of these systems working together. The first acts fast on intuition and emotional response and the second act on a slower logical and deliberate response. He explains how each system works in-depth and when to trust and act on each one. It helps identifies where there might be flaws in our ways of thinking and how to improve them.

2. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

Ariely was an incredibly intelligent and talented American professor of psychology. In this book, he shares his theories and thoughts on our ways of thinking. He explains how our minds can play tricks on us and a lot of things are not as they seem but in fact physiological. It will make you question if you’re really as in control of your thoughts as you think you are. And if we have full control over the decisions in our lives. Many of his theories about thinking are backed up with evidence obtained from a series of many different experiments. He presents groundbreaking research on the human brain and our ways of thinking focusing on expectations, emotions, social norms, and reasoning abilities.

3. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

This book explains the power of habit and how we can shape our lives by the habits we adopt. According to Duhigg, creating healthy habits is an important force that each successful human being has managed to master. He wants to help other people regain control over their lives and gives many helpful pieces of advice as a guide to perfecting habits. The book is split into two sections. The first part explains what habits are, what use they are and how powerful they can be. The second helps readers analyse their habits and understand how they affect their everyday life and overall successes. He helps readers envision the habits they need to become the person they want to be and how to get there.

4. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

Gilbert is a Harvard psychologist who has made groundbreaking research into the study of what makes us truly happy. He gives interesting insights into how people are always making decisions based on what they expect the future to be like. And when it doesn’t go as we expect, we are left disappointed. He steers towards a more healthy approach to making the right choices for yourself. It has many different hilarious anecdotes throughout to show us why/how we are so bad are predicting what will make us happy. Most people will be able to resonate with these stories and have a good laugh!

5. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

This book predominately focuses on change and how to make it happen. They talk about how hard change can be and how to embrace it. The book doesn’t just give you theories but real-life examples of how these theories have worked for various different people. And how they can help you grow in your personal and business life. Dan Heath shares his findings through research and also teaches you how to implement them. If you’re looking to change your personal habits but can’t seem to stick to them, this book is for you. There are many great takeaways in this book that will help you make the changes you want step by step. His writing is thought-provoking, humorous but most of inspirational.

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