Yik Safar Darmānī: Persian 1402

Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion, and wisdom. “Alain de Botton, one of our era’s most uncommonly perceptive, lyrical, and lucid existential contemplatives.” — The Marginalia A Therapeutic Journey follows the arc from mental crisis and collapse to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge, and sympathy, it is both a practical guide and a source of consolation and companionship in what might be some of our loneliest, most anguished moments. In this blueprint for enduring a period of mental anguish, Alain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety of forms of mental pain and illness, from the mild to the severe. It considers how and why we might become ill; how we can explain things to friends, family, and colleagues; how we can find our ways toward recovery; and how we can build resilience, to live wisely alongside our difficulties. At heart, this is a book about redemption—about regaining the thread of our lives, rediscovering meaning, and finding our way back to connection, warmth, and joy. An invaluable literary companion through the loneliness of mental illness.