How to Lift Depression]]is the most startling, stimulating and uplifting book about depression ever written. It explains in a straightforward way why worrying about things going wrong in your life unbalances the sleep cycle and leads to exhaustion and lack of motivation and therefore the sense that life is meaningful.

This memoir describes the various childhood experiences that informed the quest for meaning and the travels and adventures that came after asking his art tutor a question that ultimately led to a long association with the work of Idries Shah.