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It's Not You, It's the World

Joanna Cheek
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781837263394
  • Weight: 524g
  • Dimensions: 159 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Feb 2026
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

What if our mental health struggles aren't signs that we're broken, but proof that we're responding normally to a world in crisis?

One in two of us will be diagnosed with a mental health condition by the age of 40. Rather than viewing this as individual failure, clinical professor and psychiatrist Joanna Cheek argues that our symptoms are often brilliant alarms - our defence systems working exactly as they should in response to threatening circumstances.

It's Not You, It's the World is the essential guide for anyone feeling depressed, anxious, enraged or overwhelmed by adapting to a chaotic world. Drawing on extensive cross-cultural research, years of clinical experience, and her own journey as a patient, Dr Cheek demonstrates how self-improvement alone neglects the source of our suffering. To truly heal, we must address the imbalances in our wider systems that keep making us all sick.

With a foreword by Gabor Maté, this survival guide offers practical mental health tools to care for both ourselves and our communities.
About Joanna Cheek
Dr Joanna Cheek is a board-certified psychiatrist and psychotherapist trained in dozens of modalities, researcher, meditation teacher, journalist, and Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Medicine. She co-created the national-award-winning Mind Space collective, offering publicly-funded mental health workshops to teach effective mental health strategies through connection and care to tens of thousands of community members and physicians who, like us all, experience the mental health symptoms that arise from living in a disordered world.

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