Mind Your Head

We all have a mind, so we all need to take care of our mental health as much as we need to take care of our physical health.

Really and truly: Mind Your Head is a fabulous contribution to the long road to getting mental health parity with physical health. It's truthful and honest. It's clear and accessible. It has both personal and professional experience hard-wired into it. And it's not afraid to make you laugh even when it's talking about very serious things. Highly recommended.

Aimed at young adults, the book is accessible and supportive with humorous illustrations by Gemma Correll (...) The message is 'Let's talk about mental health' and the personal stories of dozens of teenagers will hopefully make it easier for others to do so too

I think this book should lurk around a lot of homes and school libraries. It's important, empathetic, well-researched and, most of all, kind. And the world needs to be kinder to people who are minding their heads. Highly recommend.

Juno Dawson's book is a brilliantly accessible, frank and funny look at issues such as depression, self-harm, and anxiety

Juno Dawson's frank and funny guide to dealing with mental health issues

Juno Dawson (Author)
Juno Dawson is a best-selling author, screenwriter and podcaster.


She lives in Brighton with her dogs, Prince and Miss Angel Bun.

Olivia Hewitt (Author)
Dr Olivia Hewitt is a clinical psychologist who has worked in the NHS since 2003. After meeting co-author Juno Dawson whilst at university in north Wales she went on to train at the University of Oxford. Since then she has specialised in working with people with a learning disability as well as writing for academic journals and lecturing at the universities of Southampton and Oxford. Outside of work, Olivia can be found reading detective novels and helping out on the farm. She lives with her husband in Oxfordshire.

Gemma Correll (Illustrator)
Illustrator Gemma Correll is one of the few people in the universe who has managed to turn her love of pugs into a lucrative career. She has exhibited all over the world, in China, the US and Europe, and was the recipient of a Young Guns award from the Art Directors Club of New York in 2010. She's a serial punner with a crush on all things cartooney and studied Graphic Design in Norwich. Her favourite colour is turquoise, her star sign is Aquarius and her favourite word Albuquerque, just in case you were wondering. Follow Gemma on Twitter: @gemmacorrell.