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Not sure I can cope with this. The Daily Mail has done a really good piece on my book, LIVING BETTER. The world truly is turning on its axis right now. Someone had better check up on Dacre. He won’t be happy .... ...

Joy!! Five great penalties for Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and one great save by Marshall!!! What a night. ...

Tree of the Day. Golders Green area I think. Stood out a mile as I was tootling around on the bike. ...

About to talk to @cathynewmanc4 at #otb20 @freeviewtv conference about trust and public sector broadcasting. Suspect Cain, Cummings and Carrie may come up. Look closely at the mask and you can see it is a bagpiper’s special made by Slanj the kilt guys. Useful half way between full mask for travel and mask off for the socially distanced interview. Fab view. ...

Tree of the Day is the one at the far end of the men’s pond at Hampstead Heath where nobody is allowed to swim because obviously we would all splash each other with Covid. Madness. ...

Today’s Tree of the Day also wins the ‘best tree outside a railway station next to interesting modern art installation in a traditional religious setting’ award. Well done Leeds!! ...

Oo you lookin’ at? @packedlunchc4 getting in the zone - 2 mins to go ...

My Latest Book

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Living Better

How I Learned To Survive Depression

by

Alastair Campbell









"Superbly readable, supremely useful. Unflinching, clear-eyed, honest, raw and revealing, it may be the most important achievement of Alastair Campbell’s vivid and varied life. This book could save lives." – STEPHEN FRY

LIVING BETTER is Alastair Campbell’s honest, moving and life affirming account of his lifelong struggle with depression. It is an autobiographical, psychological and psychiatric study, which explores his own childhood, family and other relationships, and examines the impact of his professional and political life on himself and those around him. But it also lays bare his relentless quest to understand depression not just through his own life but through different treatments. Every bit as direct and driven, clever and candid as he is, this is a book filled with pain, but also hope - he examines how his successes have been in part because of rather than despite his mental health problems - and love. His partner of forty years, Fiona Millar, writes a moving afterword on how she too has learned to live with his depression.

Depression is the predominant mental health problem worldwide - it is estimated that 1 in 6 people in the past week experienced a common mental health problem and major depression is thought to be the second leading cause of disability worldwide. LIVING BETTER is a call to arms and an extraordinary memoir in one compelling and inspiring narrative. This is a book that really could save lives.

"One can only hope that LIVING BETTER provokes a far wider and more honest understanding of the condition" – JON SNOW

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