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Date de parution
21 juillet 2020
EAN13
9781647002374
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
6 Mo
Publié par
Date de parution
21 juillet 2020
EAN13
9781647002374
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
6 Mo
PERFECTLY
IMPERFECT
STORIES
Foreword from Professor Peter Fonagy, Anna Freud Centre
FOREWORD
The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families is a children s mental health charity, which has been
developing and delivering mental health care for over 60 years. For more information, please visit annafreud.org
When I was younger, I often wondered
what it would feel like to be normal .
I was pretty sure that what I was feeling
(sad, constantly worried and inadequate)
was not how other people felt.
I had always been a bit of a scaredy cat . Coming back home
after school on winter evenings, I had to take detours because
I was frightened of the dark.
When I was 15, I moved to the UK. I became a refugee and I
couldn t speak English. My new school was very different from
the one I had left behind. The other children made fun of me
and I could not understand their jokes, except that they were
on me. I started failing exams. Even when my language skills
improved, my results remained disastrously poor.
I was alone, my parents and my sister were in another country.
I was utterly desperate. Now that I am an experienced
clinician, if I were to meet my younger self I would be
extremely concerned about him.
I was lucky. A neighbour told me about a therapy place for
young people who were unhappy. I went and met a person
who made me feel so uncomfortable that I decided I would
never go back.
But my loneliness and feelings of hopelessness got worse and
in the end I contacted the clinic again. This time I met a lady.
She was kind and funny and even now as I write about her I
can feel her warmth. She was easy to talk to and she helped
me see my difficulties quite differently. What had seemed
insurmountable became a problem to solve. I soon realised
there was a good reason why I was failing exams: I was
doing almost no work, so it was not surprising that I couldn t
answer the questions! In the end I made it to a college, got
in to a University, got a decent degree, became a clinical
psychologist and even a Professor. And for the past 15 years I
have been the Director of the clinic where I was a patient so
many years before.
So what have I learned? When we feel very upset, worried,
frightened, or sad, it is not always easy to know what to do
about these feelings. That is why I think it is so helpful to talk,
to check them out with someone else s help. Being alone
makes everything worse. Of course, sometimes the people
around us do not want to help. But knowing that most people
do care and can help us to make things better is the most
important lesson I have learned.
This wonderful book is about three things. First, it shows
us that personal suffering lies behind many important
achievements. Second, it reminds us that taking oneself too
seriously may not be the most helpful thing. The graphics help
us to see the value of seeing the lighter side of ourselves. And
finally, struggling with our emotions is something that unites
us all - you, me and all the famous people in this book.
Professor Peter Fonagy
OBE FMedSci FBA FAcSS PhD DipPsy
Chief Executive, Anna Freud National Centre for Children & Families
Senior National Clinical Advisor on Children s Mental Health, NHS England
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Frida Kahlo
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Prince Harry
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Serena Williams
10
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Dwayne Johnson
12
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Lady Gaga
14
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Charles Darwin
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Ruby Rose
18
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Edvard Munch
20
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Willow Smith
22
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Frank Sinatra
24
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H lo se Letissier
26
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Winston Churchill
28
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Kylie Minogue
30
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Michael Phelps
32
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Marie Curie
34
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John Green
36
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Emma Stone
38
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Gisele B ndchen
40
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Rafael Nadal
42
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Sam Smith
44
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Ariana Grande
46
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Ludvig van Beethoven
48
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Hideaki Anno
50
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Zayn Malik
52
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Florence Nightingale
54
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Nadiya Hussain
56
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Kevin Love
58
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Abraham Lincoln
60
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Small steps
62
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Further information
CONTENTS
FRIDA
KAHLO
FRIDA
KAHLO
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When Frida Kahlo felt unhappy, she
loved nothing more than to pick up
her paintbrush and create beautiful
and detailed oil paintings in all kinds
of bold colours.
Growing up in Mexico, she
didn t have an easy start to life.
When she was a young girl, she
became very ill with a disease
called polio that left her right
leg thinner than her left, and
made it difficult to walk.
She worried about what
other children would
think about her
appearance and struggled to feel happy
with how she looked.
Despite her insecurities, Frida
managed to exercise a strong sense
of individuality and unconformity
throughout her life, refusing to shave her
armpits, bushy unibrow or moustache. Instead,
she put all of her thoughts into her colourful
clothes, elaborate accessories and the fresh
flowers she wore in her hair - all of
which she often painted into her
magnificent self-portraits.
When Frida was 18, another terrible thing happened to
her: she was involved in a traffic accident that left her
badly injured. Courageous Frida had once dreamed of
studying medicine and becoming a doctor, but after
the accident, the pain was so tremendous that she had
spent months at a time lying in bed. It was during this
time that she discovered painting pictures as a way to
pass the time in her room; think of how boring it must
have been in a time before TVs or iPads!
To her amazement, Frida found that she could take all
the bad things that had happened to her - all the
unhappiness and sorrow it brought - and create
beautiful pieces of art with it.
Through the rest of her life, Frida faced
many other hardships, including 35 different
operations and
a heartbreaking
marriage, which
led to minor and
major depressive
episodes that
left her tearful and withdrawn. Even so, she always
channeled her pain into her art, creating beautiful and
surreal paintings that have made her one of the
most celebrated women
in art history today.
I paint my
own reality.
I never paint
dreams or
nightmares.
Frida
struggled
to feel
happy with
how she
looked
She channeled
her pain into her
beautiful art
HARRY
HARRY
With a royal residence as his home
and the Queen as his grandma,
Prince Harry didn t have what
you d call an ordinary upbringing.
As a little boy, he was third in line to the British throne, but
even so, the little boy with ginger hair and a mischievous
smile still loved lots of normal things, like pop music,
rugby and his lop-eared rabbit.
When Harry was 12, his mother, Princess Diana, died
suddenly in a car accident. Her death was a shock to
everyone that knew her.
Grief can affect you in lots of different ways; some
people find it hard not to get upset all of the time,
but Harry was the opposite. He felt like the best
thing to do was to bottle up his feelings, as thinking
about his mum would only make him sad and wouldn t
bring her back. Even though he always seemed happy
when people saw
him out and about,
behind closed doors,
he felt like his life
was in total chaos.
After 20 years of
shutting the world out, he finally opened up about his
feelings to a therapist. Harry suddenly realized that
he d been hiding so many overwhelming
thoughts that he hadn t dealt with. By talking
about how much he missed his mum, he felt a huge
weight off his shoulders.
Acknowledging his mental health issues made it easier
for Harry to keep
doing his job,
which takes him
all around the
globe meeting
different people.
He also created
a mental health
charity with his
brother and
sister-in-law called
Heads Together
, that spreads the
wonderful message that feeling empowered to talk
about your feelings can help you to move forward.
Sometimes it can be difficult to have sad thoughts, but
like Prince Harry, it can help you to understand other
people and make a big impact on their lives.
Even though he still misses his mother, Prince Harry s story
does end on a happy note. He found his dream princess
and married her at a big church ceremony with his family
around him, and they lived happily ever after.
Shattering
stigma on mental
health starts
with simple
conversations
Prince
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Harry bottled
up his feelings,
seeming happy to
the outside world
He created a charity
with his brother
and sister-in-law,
empowering others
to talk about their
feelings
SERENA
WILLIAMS
SERENA
WILLIAMS
Serena Williams was just three years
old when she started training to
become a tennis star. As a little girl,
her father would take her to the local
court in their hometown of Compton
in California, where she d play for
hours in the sunshine against her
older sister Venus.
With a powerful serve, lightning-fast reactions
and oodles of energy, the Williams sisters
quickly captured the attention of the tennis
world, and Serena and Venus became a sporting
force to be reckoned with. Serena rose to become the
number one tennis player in the world, winning ten Grand
Slams and an amazing four Olympic gold medals.
Her incredible power and athletic ability gave Serena
the winning edge over her competitors, but over the
years, some people have scrutinized her strong and
muscular body type. I always say, Not everyone s
going to like the way I look, says Serena, who
has always spoken out against her critics.
Everyone has different types. If we all liked the same
thing, it would make the world a really boring place!
What matters most is that I like myself.
A few years ago, when she became a mum, she also battled
with something called postnatal depression , a type o