Mental Illness category: 868 books

The use of first-hand service user accounts of mental illness is still limited in the professional literature available. This is, however, beginning to change, with a new ‘recovery’ focus in mental health services meaning that the voices of service users are finally being heard.　 Recovering...

“One of the best books about going crazy . . . required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside.”—The New York Times Book Review Mark Vonnegut set out in search of Eden with his VW bug, his girlfriend, his dog, and his ideals. But genetic predisposition and “a...

Experiencing a mental illness can leave you feeling lost, alone and hopeless. That's what happened to the author, Jeremy Godwin, when a series of breakdowns, followed by severe mixed depression and anxiety, left him unemployed, bankrupt and suicidal for several years. Depression? F*** Depression!...

The mental health community is now more divided than it has ever been before with considerable opposition to the biomedical model of illness. This report explores that polarization as the author reviews the intellectual and philosophical underpinnings of the recovery movement as well as the anti-psychiatry...

For more than twenty years Josie Méndez-Negrete has endured the emotional journey of watching her son Tito struggle with schizophrenia. Her powerful account is the first memoir by a Mexican American author to share the devastation and hope a family experiences in dealing with this mental illness....

Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression) is a medical disorder in which people swings between periods of a very good or irritable mood (mania) and depression.Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that causes extreme mood swings.This disorder is also called manic-depressive illness or manic depression.Bipolar...

Illuminating Schizophrenia: Insight into the Uncommon Mind is a synthesis of artistic and analytical forms of self-expression. This book embodies factual, theoretical and creative accounts of what the diagnosis of schizophrenia has come to signify. Ann Olson is a doctor of psychology, a writer of poetry...

A beneficial book for mental health professionals, social workers, nurses, teachers or parents and caregivers who may be working with high risk youths with mental health disorders or substance abuse disorders. Sam's Journal gives a glimpse into the person behind the mental illness and can be used...

An extraordinary look into the life and mind of a schizophrenic—a powerful memoir for sufferers, their families, and the professionals who care for them. For ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. In these...

Your anonymous sufferer is back with new journal entries. In this edition, she delves into social topics like rights for those with mental illness, including gun control and access to affordable healthcare. She talks about the difficulties of regular, every day life and how she overcomes the obstacles....

When Mahita was 15, a teacher at her Catholic school in Singapore said she could see the devil in her eyes. While growing up, then raising a family of her own, she constantly fought to understand and control this ‘devil’ inside her. Born to Indian parents in Singapore and raised by a Chinese amah,...

A guide to mental illness for customer service staff which will help you interact more confidently, effectively and helpfully with customers who may be affected by mental illness.

In the past few decades, awareness of bipolar disorder has significantly increased, but understanding of the condition remains vague for most of the general public. Though the term itself is relatively recent, the condition has affected individuals for centuries—and no more profoundly than in the...

Seventeen years ago, April, 2001, my life changed permanently with my hospitalization and diagnosis of Bi-polar and Schizophrenia (Schizo-Affective). My memoir is a very vivid description of what I went through for several weeks experiencing psychosis, before I was finally hospitalized. I struggled...