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It's Not You, It's the World
A Mental Health Survival Guide for Us AllBy Joanna CheekNarrated by Eleanor PartonLength10h 51m
About this audiobook
What if the mental health symptoms we face aren’t the actual problem? What if they’re signals that can help us see and solve the real problem?
As our world clashes and collapses around us, it’s no surprise that one in two of us will be diagnosed with a mental health condition by the age of forty, with one in five people affected each year. It’s hard to view all our mental health symptoms as disordered if so many of us are experiencing them. Perhaps it’s not that something’s gone wrong in our bodies and minds, but that something’s gone right: These symptoms are brilliant alarms and adaptations to help us survive in a disordered world. Having sensitive protective functions that sound alarms or short-circuit when we’re threatened isn’t a design flaw. It’s a design success.
As a psychiatrist, professor, and mental health speaker, Joanna Cheek argues that we’re not broken or doing it wrong when we’re stressed or struggling. As our systems are pushed to the brink of collapse, self-improvement alone neglects the source of our suffering. Instead, to care for ourselves, we must heal the imbalances in our wider systems that keep making us all sick. In It’s Not You, It’s the World, Dr. Cheek offers a survival guide of mental health tools to care for both ourselves and our collectives and helps us to understand and befriend our alarms so we can come together to solve the shared problems they’re signaling.
With a foreword by Gabor Maté, chapter-by-chapter guidance, and practical action to empower, connect, and instill hope in the reader, It's Not You, It's the World is the go-to guide for anyone feeling depressed, anxious, enraged, numb, or sick from adapting to a world on fire.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (34)
Includes Goodreads
GenrePsychology, Self-Help
Length10 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byEleanor Parton
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateFeb 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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