Ten Things I Hate About Me: The instant Sunday Times bestseller

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Trying to fix my broken brain by writing a gratitude list is like trying to remove a tumour with a fucking spoon. The book is a difficult read and Joe talks through his life from one sh*tty moment to the next but he's made me feel less alone in my struggles and by far he's given the most practical and actionable advice on preventing su! In my opinion, this book is a must-read for anyone trying to better understand other people's experiences, and to really appreciate that you can never, ever tell what a person may be going through just by looking at them. But if there is even the smallest chance that me telling you how I live with me helps you live with you; if it opens up a space for someone, somewhere to be more honest about their mental illness, it will have been worth it.

Originally in the public eye as an actor, comedian and presenter, Joe has gained an enormous following on Twitter in recent years as he uses the platform to open up about his mental health.There are some very fine passages (which I note he's reading aloud as part of the publicity for the book) He has trenchant things to say about the limits of the opening up of public discourse around mental illness (it's OK to talk about it, not considered OK to manifest it). One caution though - some of the descriptions of sex and sex abuse, substance abuse, and self-harm are very, very graphic. But if his book makes you think: "thank fuck it’s not just me" and that makes you feel a little better, then it’s a job well done.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Joes story is far from pretty and very heartbreaking at times and the reason behind him writing this book is one of pure honestly. it's rare to hear bpd spoken about in such human terms - not medicalised, stigmatised, romanticised, or misrepresented. He tries to explain what your life is like when you essentially have a brain that's trying to kill you every day.

i've met a few people recently that make me feel like this illness isn't such a capital sentence, and the sort of parasocial relationship i've had with this book, dipping in and out, reading a chapter whenever i'm having a rough time, treating it like a cool, funny, and friendly embrace of "it's shit, but it might get better" has undoubtedly been a powerful one. I must have been on Mars when it first came out because I mop up books on BPD (being in the healing process myself, a long and arduous journey but well worth the ride,) but I'd never heard of this until it was mentioned on the BPD Bunch podcast.

Joe Tracini came back on my radar (and pretty much the whole nations) during the Covid Lockdown period with his hilarious social media videos. He will struggle with BPD all his life but he is much better than he was when all this started for him.I have been aware of Joe Tracini for some time, as I was a huge fan of Joe Pasquale growing up, and so saw Tracini involved with some of Pasquales entertainment shoes. I saw a funny post involving interpretive dance in a back yard, a woman’s leotard and yelling out hysterical made up names for dance moves. But the lost has miraculously been found and over the Christmas holidays I have been able to launch into the second half.