Mental Health category: 18328 books
5 Survivors
Personal Stories of Healing from PTSD and Traumatic Events
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
First-person accounts by five PTSD survivors bring hope to the millions suffering from but not yet diagnosed with this affliction—and their loved ones.
First-person accounts by five PTSD survivors bring hope to the millions suffering from but not yet diagnosed with this affliction--and their...
Many Faces of PTSD
Does Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Have a Grip On Your Life?
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2010
Person-centered instead of theory-centered, this resource provides a basic context for understanding how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects people and those around them. Compassionate, firsthand knowledge of the different ways in which PTSD manifests itself are described throughout the...
The Bipolar Handbook
Real-Life Questions with Up-to-Date Answers
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
For Dr. Wes Burgess, the diagnosis of bipolar disorder means hope-hope for the estimated ten million people who will develop the disorder during their lifetimes, and hope for the families and friends of people who suffer from it. Drawing upon the real questions asked by patients and families during...
by Lucas McCain
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
According to the National Institute of Health, 28.8% of all adults will face an anxiety disorder in their lifetime. To put it a different way, anxiety disorders will affect one in four people. That’s a pretty alarming fact.
However, what’s important about this statistic is in the definition...
Trauma and Memory
Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist...
REBOOT!
Confronting PTSD on Your Terms
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Are You Ready to Reboot Your PTSD?
Reboot! Confronting PTSD on Your Terms offers a well-structured method for getting a grip on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and starting to turn it around. Detailed inventories provide the opportunity to explore needs, both physical and emotional, both needs...
by Kim Hodges
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
‘I had a slight inkling that things were not quite right. I, too, had felt a slender change in me. It was a feeling. I could neither touch nor see it – so how could it be real? I was out of kilter, out of sync.’
When Kim Hodges’ psychologist suggests she has depression, she immediately...
Mind on Fire
Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019
'[A] painfully intense, courageous and gripping account of [Fanning's] journey to the underworld of madness and back. This is a brave and instructive book.' Irish Times
'Extraordinary. An account of mental illness, grief, delusions, homelessness,...
How to Become a Schizophrenic
The Case Against Biological Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
demonstrates the physical, psychological, and social harm resulting from the label schizophrenic and the continuous need to reexamine the underpinnings and attitudes of psychiatry.
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Of all the books written about schizophrenianone is more comprehensive, accurate, thorough, and...
Take Control of Your Anxiety
A Drug-Free Approach to Living a Happy, Healthy Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Do you know what really triggers panic attacks? Are you aware of what thinking patterns create anxiety? Are you a chronic worrier? Have you ever self-medicated with alcohol or tranquilizers?
According to mental health professionals, anxiety disorders have emerged as the common cold of mental...
Mental Focus and Brain Games For Memory Improvement
3 Books In 1 Boxed Set
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Mental Focus and Brain Games For Memory Improvement helps the reader show how an individual can regain the focus they lost and how to maintain this focus by eliminating or reducing the unwanted distractions. This boxed set is a compilation of books that will help improve one's memory through brain...
Borderline Personality Disorder
A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mood disorder marked by extreme, fluctuating emotions, black-and-white thinking, problems with interpersonal relationships, and in extreme cases, self-harm. If you have recently been diagnosed with BPD, you likely have many questions. What treatment options...
A Gentle Touch
Christians and Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Mental illness is not necessarily something spiritual that can be prayed away, but often is something pathological that may benefit from medical and psychological intervention. The author, who has himself experienced clinical depression, explains how we can care for and help those who are mentally...
You, Me & Everyone We Know
Everyday Adventures in our Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
You, Me & Everyone We Know is a collection of personal stories and recollections by journalists, broadcasters, sportspeople, men, woman, boys, and girls, looking at how they have faced and coped with a range of day-to-day challenges to their mental well-being. Looking at issues such as deinpression,...