I completely agree. I read it too and made me feel even more alone.I read his first book. I really thought I’d relate to it having had very severe depression, needing hospital care etc. I found it weirdly soulless and triggering. This utter shit he is currently peddling reduces painful, complex and life changing illness and experience to some trite sound bite. It’s offensive.
Yeah unfortunately my legs don’t work so no endorphins for me. It helps to know I’m not the only one who didn’t think he was the saviour of the nations mental healthI completely agree. I read it too and made me feel even more alone.
It is in the same brand as “go for a run and the endorphins will get rid of your depression.”
I know - it is infuriating. As if anyone with depression hasn't tried to 'look on the bright side'. The trouble is when you simply can't see a bright side.His brand of mental illness awareness/treatment boils down to "Think nice thoughts and it will be okay" which is honestly just insulting.
And 'Instagram quotes' (you know the ones, on a royalty free background image of the ocean/beach).He writes self help fortune cookies.
He does write too many books. Far. Too. Many.deleted within seconds the clown!
the word i've cut off is try - had to ss + edit on desktop (which i hate) cos it'd gone by the time i opened twitter on my phone
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for context, he has announced he's written another children's book to be published in Octoberfor the lucrative Q4 periodabout "self acceptance and how to find your way in the world"
Totally agree. Someone with a debilitating health condition or a dying child or poverty ruining their life or a soul destroying relentless job that they have no choice but to work to feed their kids doesn't need to be told to 'go outside and be curious'.His brand of mental illness awareness/treatment boils down to "Think nice thoughts and it will be okay" which is honestly just insulting. It's the middle class HR department mental health awareness type thing. Even if he had problems in the past I can't help but think from his Twitter feed he has no actual real life problems (living in a nice house with kids and his wife) and thinking of these stupid little quotes all day like it's going to save someone's life. I am sure they have made some kind of positive impact probably but most of what he writes is not going to be much comfort to someone on the breadline, struggling to make ends meet, with dependents in their life.
Subtitle 'Navel gazing for dummies'.I've heard his next tome is: 'How to wipe your arse more effectively - save time, money and the environment'.
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