Ten Things I Hate About Me: The instant Sunday Times bestseller

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But if there is even the smallest chance that me telling you how I live with me helps you live with you; if it opens up a space for someone, somewhere to be more honest about their mental illness, it will have been worth it. View image in fullscreen ‘My adult career has been trying to undo everything I taught myself about how to be like my dad’ . Not only is this book moving but I feel it will be educational not only for those without the illness, but for those with it to know that it’s okay to feel these things.

It is fantastic to know that Joe has overcome some of the things he has, and no doubt this book will help many people.He lives in Hackney, east London, but is staying at his mother’s S-shaped bungalow in Rochester, Kent, when we speak on Zoom. The only reason that I’m able to be so honest is because I’m doing it to the back of an iPhone,” he says. I saw his 48 second gymnastics commentary on Twitter and immediately started following him, not knowing anything more about him.

Being able to relate to someone on such a deep level and feel truly SEEN for the first time in my life… might have just saved my life. I don't owe Joe Tracini my life, but I do owe him for the silly joy of his captivatingly cringy dance videos in lockdown. In the videos, he explains that being suicidal is a mindset, not an event – and it is a mindset he is constantly trying to understand.You’re not in for a self help book journey, this is about having someone telling you they understand how you feel and how fucked up your brain can be. Talking about the bad things you've done, mental illnesses you may have and your lowest points is possibly the most difficult thing for anyone to do. At all the parts where you could hear the in emotion in his voice, and hear him sobbing as he narrates some of most difficult stuff in the book makes me just want to give him a big hug. Although initially the videos were primarily for his benefit, he thought lockdown would be a particularly difficult time for a lot of people.