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Contents

This book is impossible

A note, before we get fully under way

1 Falling

The day I died

Why depression is hard to understand

A beautiful view

A conversation across time – part one

Pills

Killer

Things people say to depressives that they don’t say in other life-threatening situations

Negative placebo

Feeling the rain without an umbrella

Life

Infinity

The hope that hadn’t happened

The cyclone

My symptoms

The Bank of Bad Days

Things depression says to you

Facts

The head against the window

Pretty normal childhood

A visit

Boys don’t cry

2 Landing

Cherry blossom

Unknown unknowns

The brain is the body – part one

Psycho

Jenga days

Warning signs

Demons

Existence

3 Rising

Things you think during your first panic attack

Things you think during your 1,000th panic attack

The art of walking on your own

A conversation across time – part two

Reasons to stay alive

Love

How to be there for someone with depression or anxiety

An inconsequential moment

Things that have happened to me that have generated more sympathy than depression

Life on Earth to an alien

White space

The Power and the Glory

Paris

Reasons to be strong

Weapons

Running

The brain is the body – part two

Famous people

Abraham Lincoln and the fearful gift

Depression is . . .

Depression is also . . .

A conversation across time – part three

4 Living

The world

Mushroom clouds

The Big A

Slow down

Peaks and troughs

Parenthesis

Parties

#reasonstostayalive

Things that make me worse

Things that (sometimes) make me better

5 Being

In praise of thin skins

How to be a bit happier than Schopenhauer

Self-help

Thoughts on time

Formentera

Images on a screen

Smallness

How to live (forty pieces of advice I feel to be helpful but which I don’t always follow)

Things I have enjoyed since the time I thought I would never enjoy anything again