Get a Grip, Love

Name: Get a Grip, Love
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Kate Lucey
ISBN: 9780008401092

Author: Kate Lucey

Narrator: Helen Keeley

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HQ

Published: 01/07/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Mood Disorders, Depression, Motivational & Inspirational, Emotions

Synopsis

'Clever, kind, funny and wise, this book is an uplifting and useful addition to your self help library.’ We’re all talking about mental health a lot more now than we were ten years ago, which is great . . . isn’t it? Kate Lucey has been ‘officially’ depressed (as in, diagnosed) for six years. In that time she’s experienced everything from bad therapy, knock-out meds, and friends-with-too-many-opinions, to good therapy, medication, and solutions that actually work. This book recognises that getting help is not as easy as ‘just telling someone’ or ‘taking some pills’. It weaves real peoples’ experiences of depression with the opinions of actual qualified experts and facts from scientific studies to create a no-nonsense guide to mental health. Funny, irreverent, and relatable, also tells you what to say to those mates who fancy themselves as amateur psychologists, and speaks honestly about how it feels to live with a mental health disorder. Crucially, as well as poking fun at mental illness and all its absurdities (because what are we without laughter, hey?), Kate reminds you that it’s fine not to feel ok. That you can go back to crying at any time. And that you do not need to get a grip.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fanna on January 07, 2021

Antonymous to the title, this non-fiction wonderfully imposes and consoles with the idea that depression is real, definitely existing, and not something that would instantly vanish with the overused, inappropriate, and inconsiderate phrase — get a grip. The clear distinction made between scientific......more

Goodreads review by Louise on January 14, 2021

I’ve read quite a few books on mental health. This book is predominantly about depression and it is the best book I’ve read on the topic. It made me laugh. It made me cry. It made me fully choke up and viciously nod my head in agreement. Depression is a strange thing and it is quite comforting to kno......more

Goodreads review by Ellie on August 31, 2024

Out of all the books I’ve read on mental health, this was by far my favourite. Very witty but very powerful.......more

Goodreads review by Emma on September 21, 2024

Loved this one. Part personal story, part informative research, part self help. The intended audience is people with depression, but she also speaks to people looking to support their depressed friends. I was engaged from the start until the very end (the last acknowledgement hit me hard). Funny, ra......more

Goodreads review by minaal.reads on November 28, 2020

Get a Grip, Love is a truly insightful book into Kate Lucey’s experience with depression. She talks honestly about her journey taking us from her diagnosis, to telling others, to medications to where she is now. Some parts are heavy, some parts are humorous and some parts are just really, really sad......more

Quotes

'Clever, kind, funny and wise, this book is an uplifting and useful addition to your self help library. Kate's voice is such a big, positive part of the evolving mental health conversation. This book made me feel like I could actually survive 2020. It's brilliant.' ‘In her wittily titled no-nonsense guide to mental health, [Kate] writes about her experiences of depression with insight, honesty and even humour.’ ‘A quirky, candid memoir … This will have huge appeal to anyone who feels they’re at rock bottom; it will also enlighten their friends.’ ‘A raw, honest, necessarily uncomfortable and funny insight into depression.’