Your GP and other health professionals can now 'Prescribe' books to help you, which you can borrow through your local library.
Many of us suffer from mild mental health problems such as stress, anxiety, phobias, anger, depression and mood swings. Sometimes a specially selected book can help us to understand and work through the problem. This is why South Gloucestershire Libraries & Information and the 2gether Trust have teamed up to provide this service.
There is no guarantee that a Book on Prescription will 'work' for you, but please see it as an additional way to try and help yourself. Library staff are not able to suggest alternative books to the Books on Prescription.
Books on Prescription are available to everyone. Any library member can borrow books from the 'Books on Prescription' list. They do not need a Prescription, and the loan will be treated like any other normal book loan, with the same rules and conditions.
For more information about this service and for a full list of the recommended titles, please click on Books on Prescription under Other websites in the right hand panel.