Comedian, writer and mental health campaigner shows us why and how our minds can send us mad and how we can rewire our thinking, especially through mindfulness, to calm ourselves in a frenetic world

The comedian, writer and mental health campaigner Ruby Wax here shows us how our minds can send us mad and how we can rewire our thinking through mindfulness, to calm ourselves in a frenetic world. Wax has suffered from depression, and now has a masters degree from Oxford in mindfulness based cognitive therapy. 'Very few will be able to read this wonderful contribution to the literature of mental health without recognising some part of themselves,' Stephen Fry