Martin Sturrock desperately needs a psychiatrist. The problem? He is one.
Back cover of “All In The Mind” by Alistair Campbell.
I am partly having to force myself to write. While half of me claims, quite convincingly, that this is pointless (How many people read this anyway? What difference does it make in the grand scheme of things? What peace of mind will it give me?) and that I should just not give a damn, the other half is itching to put thoughts in writing.
The irony is that is wasn’t even “All In The Mind” that made me walk up to one of the five or something WH Smiths at the Edinburgh airport. I was very close to not buying it at all. The book that caught my eye was “Outliers - The Story of Success”, and the decision to buy “All In The Mind” was very much due to the quotes from Stephen Fry on the cover, saying that the book is out of the ordinary and that it describes extremely well “the agonies and insecurities of mental trauma”.
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