Anxiety, depression, burnout, insomnia, eating disorders, psychosis – or any one of many conditions of the mind that can be hell to endure, or support someone through – award-winning writer and broadcaster Horatio Clare offers a map through the mental health system and how it can provide the help we need, when we most need it.

Horatio Clare is renowned for travel writings, memoir, nature and children's books, and his writing and broadcasting on mental health and psychiatry. He worked at the BBC as a producer on Front Row, Night Waves and The Verb, and is a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester. His published works include include Running for the Hills (Somerset Maugham Award); A Single Swallow; Down to the Sea in Ships (Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year); and Orison for a Curlew.

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