The myth of normalMental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45% of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70% of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Illness and trauma are defining how we live. In this book, renowned physician, addiction expert and author Gabor Mat dissects the underlying causes of this malaise physical and emotional, and connects the dots between our personal suffering and the pressures of modern day living.

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on every team

This collection offers fascinating stories from people who have lived

Loveday Cardew's beloved Lost for Words bookshop

they have enabled humanity to see the invisible

'Poetry was my place

five-star meals and burnt dishes

2009: Pete Saubers

than the revolutions in France in 1789 and Russia in 1917

a wrong way

surprising and uplifting stories of the ordinary and extraordinary lives they encounter every single day

visiting a lighthouse and telling midnight ghost stories