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Mental illness can affect anyone. No walk of life, career or privilege offers immunity and one in four will experience mental ill health at some point in their lives. Yet the stigma remains and discrimination is still common. This book is an attempt to challenge that stigma and inspire others. The pieces vary widely - from a straightforward account of depression to the heartbreak of a parent at the loss of a child. Poetry and prose combine to offer stories of suffering and pain, but also hope, laughter and life. The authors are mothers, fathers, sons, daughters and friends. They are everyone;...

"I'm a writer and poet and a long-term sufferer of depressive illness. I try to keep smiling but sometimes I fail. I love the natural world, and am a great fan of the vagaries of the English weather." These words were the first attempts to define what my blog was about when I began it in February 2009. From these first tentative steps into blogging, Zen and the Art of Tightrope Walking has expanded into a wide-ranging and eclectic exploratory journey into what it means to live with depression. There are many posts on the subject now, and I decided to collect together the ones I felt were...

Ruth Kaufmann follows the life of her father Bertl Kaufmann, a survivor of the persecution, expulsion and extermination which Jews were subjected to during the Nazi rule. Her father never kept a physical diary, but Ruth had many discussions with him about his experiences during which the events he described came so vividly to life that to present them as contemporaneous diary entries seemed to do his memories the greatest justice. This book is an homage to a child survivor of the holocaust and is his experience in the words of the author. It is a link to those times and a witness to the...