Mood Disorders category: 572 books

An honest and compelling memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet is Merri Lisa Johnson’s account of her borderline personality disorder and how it has affected her life and relationships. Johnson describes the feeling of "bleeding out" - unable to tell where she stopped and where her partner...

With astonishing honesty, this memoir reveals what mental illness looks and feels like from the inside, and how healing from borderline personality disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones. With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here, reveals...

The Kill Order by Kay Berger I had a voice in my head telling me that I wasn’t good enough at anything.  I wasn’t good enough as a human being.  I was too fat at 130 pounds.  I was too smart and no one likes a smart girl.  Repeatedly, this tape played and I couldn’t...

Do you feel burdened by your past?Current culture conditions us to believe that we're indelibly scarred by the events of our past. If we've had past experiences that have been harmful or traumatic, then in many cases, no matter how much time has passed, we will still today be struggling to deal...

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), père de la psychanalyse, est né le 6 mai 1856 à Freiberg en Moravie. Après avoir fait des études de médecine à l'Université de Vienne, Freud accomplit un stage à Paris, dans le service Dr. Charcot, spécialiste...

In "Letters From A Bipolar Mother", Alyssa Reyans tells the story she's never been able to tell her children: of how she lost them in a battle with her own mental illness. she shares with them - and the world - what the mind of a woman suffering bipolar depression looks like, how the darkness...

This book has provided a wellness view of manic depression. Although the stay well stories and plans do not represent all people who experience manic depression these stories fill an important gap in our understanding of manic depression. Rather than focus only on the burden of manic depression it is...

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.—TRUBLET. To be welcome in the society of persons of the better sort, who are always persons of culture and refinement, we must ourselves be persons of culture and refinement, i.e., we must know and practise the usages that obtain in refined society, and have some acquaintance with letters and art.

The Mindfulness Solution to Anxiety Drawing on techniques and perspectives from two seemingly different traditions, this second edition of the self-help classic Calming Your Anxious Mind offers you a powerful and profound approach to overcoming anxiety, fear, and panic. From the evidence-based...

This self-help book describes how I’ve managed to survive and thrive with bipolar disorder for over 25 years. It offers tips on how to pick a good psychiatrist, how to handle depression, anxiety and insomnia, and how to help a loved one who’s going through a manic episode. It shares with you the...

Dealing with a child who cuts or self-harms in any way breaks a parents heart. It does not matter if the child is a teen or a pre-teen all you can think about is how to help them. This book is written by a parent of a child who cuts. I wrote this book because many times parents feel alone...

I spent 3 1/2 years of my life suffering from chronic panic attacks.  I finally found a way to beat this terrifying condition on my own and this is my story of how I did it.  I hope it will provide insite to someone out there suffering from these horrible attacks.

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...

"I had nightmares, flashbacks. I dissociated... Changes in self-perception and hallucinations-those are some of my other symptoms. You are poison, I chanted silently to myself. And your poison is contagious." So begins Mac McClelland's powerful, unforgettable memoir, Irritable Hearts. When...