Maximum Pop have dubbed Rae Earl‘s It’s All in Your Head ‘an advice guide like no other’.

Rae Earl has written about the messy reality of surviving a breakdown on Broadly.

‘Blame my breakdown on a hedgehog. 

Well, don’t. Of course it was a lot more complicated than that. A thousand moments thread together to make the intricate tapestry of a mental collapse. Mine was years in the making.

The problem with thinking you’re the devil or God or a god for a lot of your life is that the job comes with a great deal of anxiety. Stopping wars and plane crashes by touching things a certain number of times, preventing my cat getting hit by a car by praying – it was all my responsibility.’

Read the rest of Rae’s article here.

Buy It’s All in Your Head here.