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

A book about living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) that aims to explain what it's like to have a brain that is trying to murder you every day. The author shares funny, sad, and shocking experiences to help others live with their mental illness and to save lives.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 11 May 2023
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

This is a remarkable book. The honesty is startling and potent.

Dawn French

You have to buy this book. I mean it. It's very funny and sad and utterly true. It's a life-saver.

Miriam Margolyes

Hi. I hope you're okay. My name is Joe, and I have one job, every day: don't kill myself. I live with a complex mental illness called Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

15% of people with BPD die by suicide, and 40% try. I'm already in the 40%. My job is to keep out of the 15%.

In this book, I want to try and explain what life is like when you have a brain that is essentially trying to murder you every day. It's a collection of the funny, sad, and shocking stuff that has happened to me along the way.

Writing this book has been the hardest thing I've ever done. It had to be dragged into the world, with my condition telling me that every single word, sentence, and chapter was terrible and would make strangers walk up to me in the street and punch me in the face. But I had run out of options. I'd done everything I'd been told to do, and I still thought about killing myself every day. So I wrote this book to save my life.

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.

Please don't kill yourself.

Love,

Joe

Please read this book. It will make the world a better place.

James O'Brien

This book will save lives.

Lorraine Kelly

Just holding this book will make you a better person.

Paddy McGuinness

Weight: 246g
Dimension: 128 x 604 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781398705944