Non fiction
Hardback
Details: condition: brand new format: hardback isbn: 9781529384543 publisher: hodder & stoughton overview: the unwelcome visitor is denise welch's raw, deeply personal memoir charting three decades of living with clinical depression. Written with the candour that has made her a trusted voice on mental health, this sunday times bestselling hardback moves between painful lows and hard-won moments of hope. Welch names her depression the unwelcome visitor, describing how it returns unannounced and upends her life, career and relationships. Blending vulnerability with wit, this is an essential read for anyone touched by mental illness, whether personally or through a loved one, and a powerful contribution to the conversation around wellbeing. About the book: in the unwelcome visitor, denise welch traces her mental health journey from a postnatal depressive episode early in her career to the recurring visits that have shaped her adult life. She writes with striking honesty about the difficulty of identifying triggers, the isolation of suffering in silence, and the relief she found in finally speaking openly, including on social media, about what she was going through. Best known for her decades on screen in coronation street and as a panellist on loose women, welch uses this platform not to entertain but to educate, stripping away the glamour to reveal the exhausting reality behind her public persona. The book weaves career milestones with the private bat...