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# 4.6/5 star rating Sunday Times bestseller 1M+ copies sold Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: The Sunday Times bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold

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## Summary

> 📖 Your mental health game-changer—why didn’t someone tell you sooner?

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## Key Features

- • **Values-Driven Growth:** Explore and align with your core values like fairness and bravery for authentic self-discovery.
- • **Unlock Mental Clarity:** Dive into practical insights that kickstart your mental health journey with ease.
- • **Anxiety Made Manageable:** Engage with guided questions that help you understand and reduce anxiety effectively.
- • **Perfect Gift of Wellness:** A thoughtful, safe, and useful companion for anyone seeking emotional self-help.
- • **Trusted Bestseller Status:** Join over a million readers who’ve transformed their mindset with this Sunday Times hit.

## Overview

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? is a Sunday Times bestselling print book by Julie Smith, boasting over 1 million copies sold and a 4.6-star rating from 12,748 reviews. Ranked top 5 in Emotional Self Help and Applied Psychology categories, it offers accessible, practical guidance on mental health, values exploration, and anxiety management, making it a trusted resource for personal growth and emotional wellbeing.

## Description

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Review: Useful starting point - I enjoyed this book. It’s well laid out and easy to read. The writer covers enough topics to get you started and going on a mental heath journey. What I found most useful was her look at values. It did get me started on thinking about my own values and from what she explored I started to understand I did value the values of fairness and bravery. There’s also a great section regarding anxiety. I only went through anxiety mildly but going through and writing as encouraged questions asked in that section did help me explore some of my issues. I’m glad I got it and would recommend to have or gift. It’s lovely, useful and safe.
Review: Good book - Good book

## Features

- Warning:To be used under the direct supervision of an adult
- New Store Stock

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 420 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 2 in Family & Lifestyle Depression 4 in Applied Psychology (Books) 5 in Emotional Self Help |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 12,748 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Useful starting point
*by A***G on 7 November 2024*

I enjoyed this book. It’s well laid out and easy to read. The writer covers enough topics to get you started and going on a mental heath journey. What I found most useful was her look at values. It did get me started on thinking about my own values and from what she explored I started to understand I did value the values of fairness and bravery. There’s also a great section regarding anxiety. I only went through anxiety mildly but going through and writing as encouraged questions asked in that section did help me explore some of my issues. I’m glad I got it and would recommend to have or gift. It’s lovely, useful and safe.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book
*by C***. on 18 January 2026*

Good book

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very good
*by R***A on 18 February 2022*

The first thing we read about the author in this book (in the dust jacket literally after the book's title), is that Dr Julie Smith is "a social media superstar ... ". First things first; these are the signs of these times. Truth to be told, then the entry carries on introducing Dr Smith as a "trained psychologist" - there's still hope. A large online presence has brought Dr Smith remarkable fame. In her social media "bites" (as she likes to call them), short pieces of advice to cope better with everyday life uploaded to online platforms, Julie always looks relaxed, happy, often enthusiastic. She likes retorting to basic examples, using often pieces of fruit and biscuits to explain her theories; cups of grains of rice become large populations. Sometimes she jumps up and down on a chair to explain why is OK to be happy, or turns the screen into black and white to denote pessimism. These snippets have given Dr Smith followers by the millions. Too much? No, because she's good at what she does, which is explaining an intricate science (psychology) to the layperson. Even better, her advice is always practical, not abstract so the viewer will know how to put the advice to work. She reaches a large audience because she's thorough in what she does, but also simple - in the best sense of the word, she knows what's good for the spectator and how to reach him, she's indeed, and thankfully, no “celebrity” blabbing platitudes. She's an actual scientist, and it shows. At the beginning of her book (her first, surely not her last) Dr Smith explains that said book contains the further "details" of her mini-clips. She thought that there was something missing in those short clips, due to the format constraints, so here it is. Quite a fair point; this book is the elaboration beyond the "bites": what she's left behind for clarity and brevity. And, yet again, she's nailed it, because the book is a worthy piece of counsel and which can be enjoyed with or without the mini videoclips. Dr Smith gathers the right skills necessary to succeed in "popular science": she's knowledgeable, passionate and writes well; and also, she expresses herself very clearly - there's no jargon or unnecessary long words for show or to impress her audience. Furthermore, she's very warm, so much that the pages read like long letters writen by our favorite cousin. And so, with these foundations, the book starts and goes well, and then never drags, never fails; it never loses the reader's attention. Dr Smith goes for width rather than depth and this helps: the book feels well balanced. And at the same time, the author's honesty and cautiousness are ever-present: she explains (repeatedly) that the text is no magic formula for happiness, only a set of tools that, consistently applied, will help the reader. There're some examples along the pages, but Dr Smith never falls for the mistake (tediously common in popular science books) of retorting constantly to examples to fill whole chapters. She does not need that: she knows quite well her trade and is merely willing to share her knowledge and experiences with the reader. And yet again, in the clearest of ways, perhaps at some points treading dangerously (but never falling) for a too simplistic ground. Yet Dr Smith never crosses this line and she never addresses her readers from above, lecturing, much less patronizing her audience. There are many icons and arrows in the book, but the reader never feels treated lightly. On the contrary, the surface is plain, but the core of the book (the “tools”) is quite worthy. And what's wrong with the book? Not much, nothing important. Perhaps the reader could do with less graphics, drawings and charts. These take a good percentage of the total space, a bit too much. For instance, a simple box with three blank columns "Values - goals - day-to-day", a template for the reader to make his / her own charts, takes a whole page. Is that necessary? And related to the previous, this is one against the publisher. The book falls for a common failure: it has 352 pages in the first hardback edition and should have been 152. Not that the text should be shorter, but the spaces, the whole pages containing a title, the chapter divisions and the pages with one or two paragraphs in massive font are all unnecessary and mere distractions (and a sad waste of paper), and all just to make a longer book, perhaps thinking that this will make it more interesting or worthier. As if a volume would be better for merely being thicker. A big mistake, unfortunately quite common these days. But yet again, the book is very good and it could (and should) be only the first of a long and illustrious career. Dr Julie Smith has a lot to tell and she's happy to share it; that's very good news.

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