AM I MENTAL? - Staying Sane in a World Gone Mad

<p><strong>ARE YOU LOSING IT - OR JUST LIVING IN 2025?</strong><br>If your brain now treats everyday life like a hazard course - emails as landmines meetings as moral tests family group chats as endurance sports - this book is your spotter on the course.</p><p><em>Am I Mental? - Staying Sane in a World Gone Mad</em> is a wry practical field guide to modern mind-noise: the productivity cult the happiness hustle the anxiety economy the illusion of control and the irresistible urge to escape. Across clear punchy chapters you'll learn to run quick sanity checks turn down the ambient noise and build routines that keep you upright when the culture won't.</p><p><strong>WHAT YOU'LL GET</strong><br>• <strong>Sanity diagnostics</strong> you can actually use: Noise Tolerance Social Calibration Decision Friction and Control Flexibility<br>• <strong>A simple scoring model</strong> to track sleep focus people patterns and recovery - no jargon no fluff<br>• <strong>Practical fixes</strong>: five-minute resets small experiments and repeatable routines that survive real-world chaos<br>• <strong>Humour not hectoring</strong>: plain UK English with just enough bite to keep it honest</p><p><strong>WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR</strong><br>• People who feel over-stimulated under-slept and permanently on<br>• Builders carers freelancers founders parents managers - anyone juggling too many tabs (in the browser and in their head)<br>• Readers who prefer clear tools over vague pep talks</p><p><strong>WHAT'S INSIDE (AT A GLANCE)</strong><br>• <em>The Productivity Cult</em>: why optimisation became a belief system - and how to step off the treadmill without falling behind<br>• <em>The Happiness Hustle</em>: the pressure to feel great all the time (and the saner alternative)<br>• <em>The Anxiety Economy</em>: when stress becomes a market and how to stop being its best customer<br>• <em>Control Addiction</em>: why white-knuckling makes things worse - and what to do instead<br>• <em>The Great Escape</em>: healthy repair vs. numbing avoidance (and how to tell the difference)</p><p><strong>HOW TO USE IT</strong><br>• Dip in for a quick diagnostic when you're spiralling<br>• Run the score weekly to see where you're drifting<br>• Pick <strong>one</strong> small nudge repeat it for seven days then add the next</p><p><strong>WHAT THIS BOOK IS NOT</strong><br>• Not therapy not a diagnosis manual not a rise at 5am or fail sermon. It's a practical toolbox for non-dramatic stability in a dramatic world.</p><p><em>Note on scope:</em> This book distils research interviews and conversations with clinicians and people who have experienced mental ill-health first-hand. It is <em>not</em> medical advice. If you're in crisis or suspect a clinical condition please seek professional care.</p><p><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</strong><br><em>Dean Armstrong</em> writes about how ideas harden into habits - and how those habits shape our days. He blends research interviews and lived observation across media work and technology. He prefers clarity to clichés and humour to hand-waving.</p><p><strong>IF YOU'RE READY TO FEEL LESS FRIED AND MORE STEADY</strong><br>Start with the fastest probe that fits your day score it make one small change and repeat. Sanity isn't a personality; it's a practice. This book shows you how to build it.</p>