Mental Health, Reclaimed: A Simple Guide to Thriving Beyond Labels or Limits Paperback - 2025

Mental Health, Reclaimed is more than a guidebook; it's the powerful story of how Dr. Azi Jankovic freed herself from mental health diagnoses that once defined and limited her life.

At fifteen, she was prescribed antidepressants. By seventeen, she was hastily labeled bipolar. The years that followed brought seven psychiatric hospitalizations and countless prescriptions that left her sedated, hopeless, and convinced she was broken.

But Azi refused to give up. Through decades of persistence, research, and practice, she uncovered a truth hidden in plain sight: healing is possible.

Part memoir and part practical manual, this book weaves her raw story of rock bottom to renewal with the tools she discovered along the way. Readers will learn:

• The ECHO Method(TM): a transformative framework of Education, Curiosity, Healing, and Observation
• Root-cause, scientific approaches to anxiety, depression, and other diagnoses
• Practical strategies to restore energy, build confidence, and foster resilience
• Inspiring stories that dismantle stigma and prove thriving is possible
• A roadmap for reclaiming identity, relinquishing shame, and living in alignment with authentic values

Benefits of reading this book:

• Relieve stress and find deeper mental peace
• Nourish body and brain for healing and thriving
• Move beyond fear, shame, and stigma
• Reclaim agency, identity, and power
• Cultivate self-respect, self-love, and sustainable wellbeing

Ranked #1 on Amazon in its first week, Mental Health, Reclaimed blends lived experience, cutting-edge research, and integrative strategies to help readers reclaim life-on their own terms. It's proof that no matter how dark life feels, there is always a way forward.

What the experts are saying:

"In this vulnerable and important book, Dr. Azi reveals the troubling realities of modern diagnosis and treatment-then offers a vision for reclaiming health through practical, sensible methods. Eye-opening and uplifting."

- Dr. Edith Eger, NYT Bestselling Author, Renowned Trauma Psychologist & Holocaust Survivor

"Drawing from her personal story and research, Dr. Azi presents a holistic framework addressing the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of healing. Her ECHO Method empowers readers to reclaim agency through nutrition, sleep, movement, and meaningful connection-proving diagnosis can be a doorway to deep healing."

- Dr. Ellen Vora, Psychiatrist & Author of The Anatomy of Anxiety

Whether navigating symptoms, recovering from trauma, or simply seeking to thrive, Mental Health, Reclaimed is both a memoir and a manual-a call to transformation, vitality, and freedom beyond labels.