All the Little Monsters

How I Learned to Live with Anxiety

by David A. Robertson

On Sale: 01/21/2025

All the Little Monsters

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All the Little Monsters

How I Learned to Live with Anxiety

by David A. Robertson

On Sale: 01/21/2025

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About the Book

With humour, warmth and heartbreaking honesty, award-winning author David A. Robertson explores the struggles and small victories of living with chronic anxiety and depression, and shares his hard-earned wisdom in the hope of making other people’s mental health journeys a little less lonely

From the outside, David A. Robertson looks as if he has it all together—a loving family, a successful career as an author, and a platform to promote Indigenous perspectives, cultures and concerns. But what we see on the outside rarely reveals what is happening inside. Robertson lives with “little monsters”: chronic, debilitating health anxiety and panic attacks accompanied, at times, by depression. During the worst periods, he finds getting out of bed to walk down the hall an insurmountable task. During the better times, he wrestles with the compulsion to scan his body for that sure sign of a dire health crisis.

In All the Little Monsters, Robertson reveals what it’s like to live inside his mind and his body and describes the toll his mental health challenges have taken on him and his family, and how he has learned to put one foot in front of the other as well as to get back up when he stumbles. He also writes about the tools that have helped him carry on, including community, therapy, medication and the simple question he asks himself on repeat: what if everything will be okay?

In candidly sharing his personal story and showing that he can be well even if he can’t be “cured,” Robertson hopes to help others on their own mental health journeys.

 

Critical Praise

“Canadians know the creativity and brilliance of David Robertson’s writing – but with All the Little Monsters they will learn about the bravery and burden to carry talent and anxiety at the same time. Robertson's story is more than just a biography of struggle but the truth of how to struggle, empower, and break from the cycles that imprison – freedom from a world of little monsters.” — Niigaan Sinclair, author of Wînipêk

“So many of us deal with depression and anxiety, and it’s lonely. Even in better days like these, when it’s talked of so much more, it’s lonely. But David walks it with you, and the marvelous thing about his open and intimate book is you find yourself walking it with him, too. I’ve read scores of books on this, but it’s rare to feel an author confiding in you like a friend by your side.” — Seamus O’Regan

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9781443472401
  • ISBN 10: 1443472409
  • Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
  • On Sale: 01/21/2025
  • Pages: 272
  • List Price:25.99 CAD
  • BISAC1 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • BISAC2 : SELF-HELP / Anxieties & Phobias
  • BISAC3 : SELF-HELP / Mood Disorders / Depression

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