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That Was When People Started to Worry

By: Nancy Tucker
Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
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‘In the waiting room, I see a lot of people who I could tell had real, serious Problems. They deserve to be here. I don’t. I’m a fraud. A lazy wreck seeking an excuse for her incompetence. I’m useless.’ (Abby, 24)

Having conducted over 100 hours of interviews with 60 British women aged 16-25, Nancy Tucker - the author of The Time In Between, an ‘astonishingly good’ (Sunday Times) memoir of a life consumed by eating disorders – explores what it’s like to suffer from serious mental illness as a young woman.

With raw honesty, sensitivity and humour, That Was When People Started to Worry examines real experiences of anxiety, self-harm, borderline personality disorder, OCD, binge eating disorder, PTSD and dissociative identity disorder. Giving a voice to those like Abby who can’t speak out themselves, Tucker presents a unique window into the day-to-day trials of living with an unwell mind.

©2018 Nancy Tucker (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Mental Health Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Health
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This has been one of the best illustrations of the lived experiences of those living with mental illness. It is Broad enough without any assumed pschological knowlege as to be accessable to all who would take the time to pick the text up. But the depictions aren’t oversimplied either, they are well characterised, and vivid enough that you will come to feel you know each of these 7 characters personally, because you probably do. else you yourself my see yourself in these characters and feel some relief in the knowlege that these are real stories from real people, like you.

And you are not alone.

The narrator does a fantastic job of bringing the words to life and so i would absolutely recommend the audio book rendition if you can.

I have been asked by several curious strangers what book I was reading and each of them after hearing my muddled synopsis of rummaged about for a pen and paper and had me repeat the title and author, so they could jot them down and get themselves a copy too.

You should read this book, it will mke you a kinder and wiser person.

This book should be required reading in everones education

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