You Are Not Alone In This

LoveReading Says

Psychotherapist Sophie Scott draws from her professional experience, client stories, and personal journey, delivering practical advice to help readers navigate the complexities of caring for someone with mental illness while crucially maintaining their own wellbeing.

Driven to write this book because it didn't exist on the bookshelves, Scott shares her personal experiences. With heart. Candour. And bundles of empathy.

The person in the supporting role so often ends up struggling with mental health problems themselves. Reassuring the reader that it's ok to struggle with the role you have been assigned, Scott acknowledges it's not an easy one. 

For those lovingly standing guard without any formal training of their own the book is split into two parts - caring for your loved one, and caring for yourself. Holding your hand every step of the way, Scott's guidance enables you to have difficult conversations about behaviours that concern you and supports you in making a plan of action. For your loved ones she shares strategies to help get the right treatment plan and support in place. With frameworks, checklists and prompts every step of the way, Scott delivers a handbook to help you understand your loved one better, implement better boundaries and crucially look after your own wellbeing too.

Our emotions are complex and multi-faced. Our experiences might be driving us to burnout in caring for our loved ones and therefore self-care is everything. Scott will enable you to understand the eight pillars of holistic health and what you need to do to reclaim yourself. While loneliness increases caregiving stress, having a sense of purpose reduces it. This book will help you reclaim your time and your story, and everyone supporting loved ones with health issues needs to read it. It's an eye opener. A comfort. A personal mandate. And an incredible support.

Deborah Maclaren

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