A Head Full of Blue

London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Very Good-. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. 5.25 X 0.6 X 8.25 inches . Some reading and cover corner creases, slightly slanted spine, light shelf wear, tiny closed tear to rear endpaper, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First printing of Bloomsbury paperback original edition with no other printings listed, 2002. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design by Nathan Burton with photo courtesy of Photonica. ; 224 pages; When Nick Johnstone got drunk for the first time as a young teenager he discovered a cure for the depression and anxiety that had been humming in his head since childhood. Over the next ten years he drank to overcome shyness, to make the world bearable, to get through the days and to get through the nights. He also began to cut himself and he began to lie. Intelligent, sensitive, from a loving family, neither he nor his countless doctors, psychiatrists, counsellors and therapists could understand where his disorders came from. Then, when he was twenty-four he was admitted into hospital. Stripped of his 'cure', Nick painfully began the process of recovery. An honest and gripping account of the often unfathomable psychology and behaviour that drives addiction. .