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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: It's Not You, It's the World by Joanna Cheek, M.D. Read by Eleanor Parton
Description: What if the mental health symptoms we face aren’t the actual problem? What if they’re signals that help us see and solve the real problem—the imbalances in our wider systems that are making us all sick?
As our world clashes and collapses around us, it’s no surprise that one in two of us will be diagnosed with a mental health condition by the age of 40, with one in five people affected each year. It’s hard to view all our mental health symptoms as disordered if so many of us are experiencing them. Perhaps it’s not that som...