stigma-busting collection of biographies of some of the great people from history who have lived with mental health conditions.
*2023 Notable Social Studies Trade Book*
Did you know
Charles Darwin experienced anxiety and
Florence Nightingale lived with PTSD? From
Michelangelo to
Deepika Padukone,
Ada Lovelace to
Freddie Flintoff, a great many successful people with brilliant minds and talents have lived or are living with mental health disorders.
The biographies in this book show that you
can't always tell what a person is going through, and that mental health conditions can and do impact people from all walks of life. The aim of this book is to help
remove some of the stigma around mental health, discuss different mental health conditions, what they mean and how they are treated; and ultimately to show that mental health disorders do not have to hold anyone back from achieving their dreams.
The figures featured are from a range of diverse backgrounds and disciplines across science, literature, art, music, sport, politics and popular culture. Additional feature pages will
explain and explore key mental health conditions including
depression,
bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety and eating disorders.