The Reason Everything Happens: Mental Health Without The Bulls**t

I’m not a doctor, a psychologist or a psychiatrist and this isn’t an academic work.
These are just the thoughts of someone who got stuck in the mental health quagmire, who chose to find their own way back to dry land and how now tries to help others get trapped up to their necks.
In doing this, I use three key words:
Responsibility. Consequences. Accountability.
A stronger mind starts with us taking responsibility for everything we do and say.
We then need to understand the potential consequences of these words and actions.
And we need to be accountable to ourselves, to stick to the plan of who and what we want to be.
There’s no question these days that it’s too easy to blame others for how we’re feeling, to feign outrage or claim to be triggered. We’re encouraged to lash out, to look for scapegoats.
This isn’t a healthy way to be, not for us or for anyone around us, which is why The Reason Everything Happens encourages us to accept – even embrace – our own failings and weaknesses as well as our successes and strengths. It invites us to try to understand why other are the way they are, rather than isolating them because of it.
Because if every did this…well, the logic is that no one would be scapegoating anyone else, no one would be lashing out.
That’s a huge wish on my part, of course. But even if this book encourages one person to choose a new way of thinking, to accept responsibility and understand consequences, to be accountable, then it will have been worth writing.
Oh, and it also tells you how to cook the perfect Beef Wellington.

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