Are u ok?: A Guide to Caring for Your Mental Health

by Kati Morton LMFT

Overview

Learn hands-on coping strategies for managing anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and other mental health concerns with this “compassionate” guide from a licensed therapist and YouTube personality (John Green).

Get answers to your most common questions about mental health and mental illness -- including anxiety, depression, bipolar and eating disorders, and more.

Are u ok? walks readers through the most common questions about mental health and the process of getting help -- from finding the best therapist to navigating harmful and toxic relationships and everything in between. In the same down-to-earth, friendly tone that makes her videos so popular, licensed marriage and family therapist and YouTube sensation Kati Morton clarifies and destigmatizes the struggles so many of us go through and encourages readers to reach out for help.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738234984
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	12/11/2018
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	891,223
File size:	592 KB

About the Author

Kati Morton is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Santa Monica, CA. She is an entrepreneur and YouTube creator who has built a global mental health online community.

What People are Saying About This

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

"A humane, compassionate, and extremely helpful guide to the complex world of mental health care. Knowing what's wrong and when to seek help can be life-changing, and Morton's book is packed with tools and tips for navigating life with mental health challenges."

Editorial Reviews

10/01/2018
Licensed marriage and family therapist Morton delivers a beginner's guide to breaking through the stigma of mental illness to discuss the realities of specific conditions, the different kinds of assistance available, and how to receive proper care. She walks readers through the steps of therapy and how to ensure a mental health professional is a good fit. Advice ranges from handling abusive relationships and coping with intense feelings to and recognizing when further treatment is needed. Appendixes list a glossary of therapeutic terms and a checklist of additional resources. VERDICT An exemplary guide for anyone wondering if they or someone close to them may benefit from mental health therapy.

Library Journal

10/22/2018
Morton, a marriage and family therapist whose YouTube channel has more than 550,000 subscribers, offers an intuitive handbook that empowers readers to tend to their own mental health. She covers enacting meaningful change, identifying complex feelings, seeking help, types of therapy (including medications), and recognizing the signs of a toxic relationship, among other topics. Throughout, Morton includes anecdotes from anonymous patients and shares her own experiences navigating difficult passages in her life. Chapters provide practical tools for handling anxiety, depression, and other mental health difficulties (including journaling and other exercises), while also offering powerful insights and mottos: “It’s a process, not perfection.” She discusses the need for individuals to reach out to a professional therapist and lists signs that might encourage readers who haven’t seen a therapist to seek one out. She also emphasizes the importance of accepting discomfort en route to getting better, as change comes only through disrupting familiar yet destructive behaviors. All are deserving of help, Morton asserts, and the potential for positive change and contentment is real. This is less a resource for diagnosis (there is brief discussion of particular conditions)than an exploration of the constellation of mental health issues. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly

"A humane, compassionate, and extremely helpful guide to the complex world of mental health care. Knowing what's wrong and when to seek help can be life-changing, and Morton's book is packed with tools and tips for navigating life with mental health challenges."—John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars

"An exemplary guide for anyone wondering if they or someone close to them may benefit from mental health therapy."—Library Journal

"An intuitive handbook that empowers readers to tend to their own mental health...Chapters provide practical tools for handling anxiety, depression, and other mental health difficulties, while also offering powerful insights."—Publishers Weekly

"[Morton] answers the questions many of us have but don't necessarily feel comfortable asking. This is information everyone can benefit from."—Bustle

"Compassionate and hopeful."—Energy Times

"An undeniably essential read."
—Cultured Vultures

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