The resulting book, I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was, is a typically sharp read, full of wit and brutally honest observations as she records her adventures before the depression took hold – including a month-long silent retreat, swimming with humpback whales, working at a refugee camp in Greece, and joining monks at a Christian monastery. The forthright and funny bestselling author had planned to write a book after lockdown about the extreme journeys people take to find an antidote to their frazzled lives.īut Wax – who says she'd previously been depression-free for 12 years – also found herself charting her own mental health crisis, which saw her spend five weeks in a clinic last May with a “typhoon of mental torture raging inside”. WHEN Ruby Wax set out to research her latest book, she didn't expect to end up in a mental health clinic.
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