Glorious Rock Bottom: 'A shocking story told with heart and hope. You won't be able to put it down.' Dolly Alderton

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I do remember as teenager reading it, that description of what it feels like to be depressed, which is probably the first time I’d read something and thought, oh, hang on. Obviously I wasn’t in a mental institution, having electroconvulsive therapy, but it was around that time I started having any kind of awareness that perhaps something wasn’t quite right. And an awareness that perhaps this was something other people went through as well. M: When I listen to some of the things I say to myself sometimes I think, God imagine if I said that to my daughter. Our main character has a dedicated following online. Having just left school to pursue her social media work, Bryony has become accustomed to being seen for her hair. Her crowning glory, Bryony is used to her daily posts and the need to keep her content up to date. So, when she discovers a bald spot on her head Bryony is unsure about what to do. It tells me that things will get better. It tells me that, if I keep doing the things I have done to help me through past episodes, I will come out the other end thriving. As it so happens, my house is currently in possession of such a boiler, and I have no excuse…I am 41, I own the property and I should have called a repair person weeks ago.

Goulding suggests finding out what support your local authority can offer. “They often have a range of services and provisions available for children who might have special educational needs,” she adds. “It is possible this young person would also be eligible for an Educational Health Care Plan, which helps those with special educational needs and their families to get extra support. Families or young people themselves, if they are over 16, can ask for an assessment for one of these plans through the local authority.”For a moment I stopped breathing. I was certain that my heart was trying to escape from my chest. It wanted to burst through my ribcage and out on to the floor of the shop where it would inevitably become infected with some hideous disease." It’s a different approach to that of Nora Ephron, in Heartburn. There she processes real-life events [Ephron’s then-husband, Carl Bernstein, had an extra-marital affair while she was pregnant] but she subverts it by making it a comedy. It was humbling that these people had agreed to be so open with us,” she says, “about such difficult and personal aspects of their daily struggles, putting themselves out there to reassure others that they are not alone.”

Gordon married Harry Wilson, a financial journalist, on 5 July 2013. They have a daughter and live in Clapham in London. [8] Gordon ran in the London Marathon on 23 April 2017 to support mental health charities. [13] What do you think about the way that Meghan Markle’s entry into the royal family has played out in the media, especially the apparent fractures between her and Kate? Melanie: Hi I’m Melanie, the founder of Bare Biology, and I’m here today with Bryony Gordon, Bryony would you like to tell us a bit about you? It’s a funny little quirk, a curious eccentricity, a condition we’d all quite like a family member to have because then at least we’d never have to do the washing up or put the laundry away.

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It is heartbreaking to see such a lovely boy so sad and changed so much, and to see my bubbly daughter changed into a rag. What can we do? We need urgent help.”