ALL OF US

Why Being Seen Completely Is the Best Thing That Can Happen to Your Mental Health

von Michael Byer

160 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

One in four adults will have a mental health condition this year. Almost every one of them will be asked about exactly one.Depression accounts for roughly a third of diagnosable mental illness. The other two-thirds - anxiety, bipolar disorder, trauma, obsessive thoughts, sleep, attention - are what the nine questions on the clipboard were never built to find.ALL OF US is about that gap, and about how ordinary it is to close.Medicine has stood here before. Before doctors could treat a disease well, they first had to learn to see it completely - and the breakthrough was almost never the cure. It was the thermometer. The stethoscope. The blood pressure cuff, which sat in President Roosevelt's chart for three years, read and recorded by competent physicians, while nobody yet believed the number meant anything.He died of a stroke at sixty-three, in a room with a doctor who had written the number down.Through the stories of people you will recognize, this book shows what modern mental health care can see, what it still cannot, and what you can bring to your next appointment that nobody else can: Kate, whose best week in years turned out to be the symptom nobody asked about.Marisol, a night-shift nurse whose exhaustion was never the actual problem.Anna and David, who received the same diagnosis in the same week and needed opposite treatments.Walter, seventy-eight, whose doctor asked about everything except him.What you will take away: why two people with an identical diagnosis often need entirely different care; what the standard depression questionnaire measures, and what it was never designed to catch; why more than seven in ten older adults who die by suicide had seen a doctor within the past month; how to say what you would prefer, and why speaking up is what keeps people in treatment. And a tear-out appendix: What to Bring, and What to Ask.There is no villain in this book. Clinicians are working inside constraints they did not choose, in appointments shorter than the problem. The obstacle is simply the limits of what we have agreed to measure - and unlike almost every other problem in medicine, closing this one requires no discovery at all. Everything needed already exists.Written for the person with a diagnosis, the person taking a medication and not entirely sure it is working, and the person reading this on behalf of someone they love.The author discloses his professional affiliation in the book's opening pages.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798191080208
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published