Mental Illness category: 868 books
Unhinged
A Memoir of Enduring, Surviving, and Overcoming Family Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Despite all her best efforts to break the cycle of catastrophic, destructive patterns of mental illness, Anna Berry found herself at the end of her rope----unemployed, penniless, homeless, and in the throes of a psychotic episode that threatened to destroy her life. Alone and unwell, she manages to...
Alfredo's Journey
An Artist's Creative Life with Bipolar Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
More than a just a journey, Alfredo gives us a blueprint for humane treatment of mental illness
In 1981, twenty-three-year old Alfredo Zotti began his lifelong challenge of living with Bipolar II Disorder. He quickly hit rock bottom, spending time as a homeless person and turning to street drugs and...
After Her Brain Broke
Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Susan Inman's memoir describes her family's nine year journey to help her younger daughter recover from a catastrophic schizoaffective disorder. "Highly recommended" by Dr. E. Fuller Torrey author of Surviving Schizophrenia and described by him as "...one of the best accounts I have...
Miracle or Mental Illness
You've Asked the Question
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Miracle or Mental Illness
By: Shelley J. Madkins
Mental illness is something that cannot be ignored in today’s society. Author Shelley J. Madkins hopes that this book will show someone with mental illness how to stay healthy by following their treatment team’s directives. The author’s...
Whole Happy and Healthy
A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Thriving with Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
Mental illness is greatly misunderstood. It is distorted, feared, and hidden — often leading to shame, guilt, and exacerbated mental health symptoms. Whole Happy and Healthy: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Thriving with Mental Illness challenges this stigma and opens up new possibilities...
Broken Brain, Fortified Faith
Lessons of Hope through a Child's Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The terms "mental illness” and “mental health” are often used casually, but many don’t believe mental illness is relevant to their lives. However, studies show that more people live with mental illness than heart disease, lung disease, and cancer combined.
Broken Brain,...
Beyond Schizophrenia
Living and Working with a Serious Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The experience of living and working with schizophrenia is often fraught with challenges and setbacks. This book is a comprehensive attempt to explain why, in spite of near-miraculous advances in medication and treatment, persons with mental illness fare worse than almost any other disadvantaged group...
by Claire Sewell
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
How To Soothe Yourself During Mild Depression
You will feel empowered by using simple self-help techniques to treat mild depression and anxiety naturally
Beyond being a temporary illness that responds well to treatment, depression highlights the areas of stress and anxiety in your...
Ben Behind His Voices
One Family's Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
When readers first meet Ben, he is a sweet, intelligent, seemingly well-adjusted youngster. Fast forward to his teenage years, though, and Ben's life has spun out of control. Ben is swept along by an illness over which he has no control—one that results in runaway episodes, periods of homelessness,...
by SANE Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Mental illness is common, affecting 1 in 5 of us at some time in our lives. Nearly every workplace will have someone who experiences episodes of mental illness from time to time, and it is important therefore, that they feel supported in the same way as someone with any other illness or disabling condition,...
A Promise Of Hope
The Astonishing True Story of a Woman Afflicted With Bipolar Disorder and the Miraculous Treatment That Cured Her
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Some children inherit "the family nose." Autumn Stringam and her brother Joseph inherited the family bipolar disorder, a severe mental illness that led to their mother's and grandfather's suicides. Autumn, at 22, was psychotic and in a psychiatric hospital on suicide watch; Joseph, at 15,...
Mom, Mania, and Me
Surviving and Changing a Volatile Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
FINALIST Tucson Festival of Books Competition
TROPHY AWARD Australian NNAAMI and WAYMI
Hope and heartbreak describe Diane Dweller’s struggles to improve her dysfunctional relationship with Dixie, her mother. Dixie has periodic spells that start with laughter, parties, and shopping....
Defying the Verdict
My Bipolar Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, author of Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, a bestselling book on bipolar disorder, has agreed to blurb the book.
This frank and honest memoir charts Charita's personal struggle with bipolar disorder. Readers will appreciate...
CBT for Those at Risk of a First Episode Psychosis
Evidence-based psychotherapy for people with an 'At Risk Mental State'
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Can severe mental illness be prevented by early intervention?
Mental illness is highly prevalent in the general population and has its onset mostly in adolescence and young adulthood. Early intervention usually leads to improved prognosis. This book describes a newly developed, evidence based...