Author(s): Natasha Bernard

Health

Nearly half of our population will experience changes in their mental state at some stage in their lives ... depression, anxiety, bipolar, OCD, PND-there are so many clinical names thrown around to describe our thoughts, feelings and emotions. These are the true stories told by people who know what it's like to live behind the diagnosis. Welcome to a world with no stigma, where people thrive with another state of mind. 'We need stories-lots of them-not about mental illness in isolation, but about the people affected by it, in all their diversity and complexity.' Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project