IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S THE WORLD by Joanna Cheek (epub)(Nonfiction)

IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S THE WORLD by Joanna Cheek (epub)(Nonfiction)
Author: Joanna Cheek, MD
Full title: It's Not You, It's the World: A Mental Health Survival Guide for Us All
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: February 3, 2026
Genre/Categories: Nonfiction; Mental health; Self‑help; Systemic psychology

Cheek argues that soaring mental health diagnoses (1 in 2 by age 40) signal not individual flaws but normal responses to a “disordered world” on the brink—climate chaos, inequality, division—where symptoms like anxiety, rage, or numbness are protective alarms, not failures. Self‑help alone ignores root causes; true healing requires addressing collective imbalances while using tools to befriend our defenses. Foreword by Gabor Maté.