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How to Build a Healthy Brain Practical steps to mental health and well-being

Kimberley Wilson

A groundbreaking science-based guide to protecting your brain health for the long term. Whatever your age, having a healthy brain is the key to a happy and fulfilled life. Yet, for both young and old, diseases of the brain and mental health are the biggest killers in the 21st century. We all know h...

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On Being with Krista Tippett

It was mentioned as a book published by Kimberley Wilson, and the first sentence was described as "arresting". It was said to be very helpful for understanding mental health due to the author's own family history of mental illness and neurogenerative disease.

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I grew up with an intimate knowledge of mental illness and neurogenerative disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, schizophrenia, motor neuron disease, Guillain-Barre syndrome, borderline personality d...

— Episode: Kimberley Wilson — Whole Body Mental Hea...

Episode: Kimberley Wilson — Whole Body Mental Health

It was mentioned as a book published by Kimberley Wilson, and the first sentence was described as "arresting". It was said to be very helpful for understanding mental health due to the author's own family history of mental illness and neurogenerative disease.

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I grew up with an intimate knowledge of mental illness and neurogenerative disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, schizophrenia, motor neuron disease, Guillain-Barre syndrome, borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and depression all run in my immediate family.

There's a very arresting, I believe this is the first sentence of your book, which is so helpful. I grew up with an intimate knowledge of mental illness and neurogenerative disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, schizophrenia, motor neuron disease, Guillain-Barre syndrome, borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and depression all run in my immediate family. Taking a big breath. So I mean, I've also seen you say that you knew you wanted to be a psychologist when you were 16, which makes sense to me with that sentence in mind.

Episode: [Unedited] Kimberley Wilson with Krista Tippett

The book was described as helpful and arresting, particularly its first sentence which outlines the author's personal experience with mental illness and neurodegenerative disease within her family.

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I grew up with an intimate knowledge of mental illness and neurodegenerative disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, schizophrenia, motor neuron disease, Guillain-Barre syndrome, borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder and depression all run in my immediate family.

I knew I wanted to be a psychologist when I was 16.

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