ENTREPRENEURIAL MENTAL HEALTH: Building a Business While Rebuilding Yourself

**The business survived. The man almost didn't.** Over thirty months, Allen Chaney buried his mother, his father, and his sister. In the same stretch he went through a divorce, lost access to his children for the better part of a year, fought to keep his house, and rebuilt a company that had been split in two. He worked through all of it. His clients never knew. *Entrepreneurial Mental Health* is the book he wishes someone had handed him in that period - not a memoir, and not a motivational book, but a working explanation of what happens to a founder's mind under sustained pressure, and what actually helps. **Inside: ** - Why unpredictable childhoods produce excellent entrepreneurs - and what that costs later - The reason calm quarters make you restless, and why you keep starting things you don't need to start - How high-functioning depression hides inside a business that's still running - Why provision gets mistaken for presence, and what it does to a marriage - The difference between quitting a coping strategy and replacing one - Building a company that can carry you through a bad year instead of collapsing in one >Chaney went to prison at seventeen, came home in 2005, built a senior care company from bandit signs on the side of the road, and has spent the last decade coaching other operators. He writes about mental health the way he writes about business: directly, without decoration, and with the parts most people leave out. If you're running something while carrying something, this was written for you.