Mental Disorders

The emotional trauma we suffer as children not only shapes our emotional lives as adults but also affects our physical health and overall well-being. Scientists now know on a biochemical level exactly how parents' chronic fights, divorce, death in the family, being bullied or hazed, and growing up with a hypercritical, alcoholic, or mentally ill parent can leave permanent, physical "fingerprints" on our brains.

Conquer the AANPCB PMHNP Exam is a concise, focused guide designed to support your journey toward certification as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. This book offers a streamlined review of essential concepts, practical examples, and advanced practice insights aligned with the exam’s key content areas. Each chapter is organized into short, easy-to-understand sections, making it ideal for busy professionals preparing for the exam. This guide does not attempt to cover every possible topic in exhaustive detail. Instead, it helps readers concentrate on core principles, ...

Exploring the latest developments in the flourishing field of modern psychedelic psychotherapy, this book shares practical experiences and insights from both elders and newer research voices in the psychedelic research and clinical communities.

The groundbreaking book that explains Sensory Processing Difference (SPD)--and presents a drug-free approach that offers hope for parents--now revised and updated.

If you're the parent of a "smart but scattered" teen, trying to help him or her grow into a self-sufficient, responsible adult may feel like a never-ending battle. Now you have an alternative to micromanaging, cajoling, or ineffective punishments. This positive guide provides a science-based program for promoting teens' independence by building their executive skills - the fundamental brain-based abilities needed to get organized, stay focused, and control impulses and emotions.

Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide for You and Your Relationship educates you on the causes and conditions of BPD while providing a variety of powerful strategies and new techniques you or your loved one can put to use to start feeling better immediately. Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) has a 77 percent success rate in the first year, eliminating the behaviors that classify BPD.

In Understanding Anger After Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), mTBI or Concussion: Learn Symptoms, Triggers, Anger Management Strategies, Techniques, Therapy, Relationship Concerns, What Can Be Expected, Resources Are you or a close one struggling to manage anger after a brain injury? This book provides a comprehensive overview of anger, its impact on individuals with traumatic brain injury or TBI, and practical tips and tools to manage anger and other mood disorders. Written for TBI survivors, mTBI or concussion survivors, their families, health professionals and caregivers, this book will ...

Do you have a child with oppositional defiant disorder and have no idea how to deal with him or her? Do your child’s defiance and aggression exhaust you and make you angry or worried? If so, this is the audiobook for you.

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Durante años, luché contra una ansiedad implacable: pensamientos incesantes que no podía controlar, síntomas físicos sin explicación y un miedo abrumador a cometer errores. Probé de todo, desde la meditación hasta trucos de mentalidad, pero nada funcionaba por mucho tiempo. No fue hasta que descubrí cómo funciona realmente la ansiedad que logré liberarme. Este libro es el mapa que desearía haber tenido. La Fórmula para Reiniciar la Ansiedad es una guía práctica y paso a paso que reprograma la forma en que piensas, sientes y respondes al estrés.

In The Pain We Carry, you'll find powerful tools to help you understand and begin healing from repeated trauma. You'll discover ways to feel safer in your body, build self-compassion and resilience, and reclaim your health and wellness by reconnecting with your sense of self and your ancestral wisdom. You'll learn how trauma is connected to grief, how it can affect both the mind and the body, and how it can persist from one generation to the next.

Do you often find yourself asking "Where does all my time go”, then find yourself frazzled in the seeming whirlwind of uncompleted tasks, feeling stressed and overwhelmed? Well, fret no more, because Time Management for Adults with ADHD is to the rescue! With over a decade of experience in the science of human behavior, Board Certified Behavior Analyst Jen Lee takes you on an adventure exploring more than 31 simple-yet-proven tools, techniques, and strategies tailored to help individuals with ADHD manage their time, overcome procrastination, and hone in on their superpower now!

If you have a daughter with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you may feel frustration, shame, and your family may be at the breaking point dealing with angry outbursts, threats, and constant emergencies. You may even feel guilty for not enjoying spending time with your child - but how can you when her behavior is abusive toward you and the rest of your family? You need solid skills you can use now to help your daughter and hold your family together.

Licensed therapist and mental health writer Dr. Kathleen Smith offers a smart, practical antidote to our anxiety-ridden times. Everything Isn't Terrible is an informative and practical guide—featuring a healthy dose of humor—for people who want to become beacons of calmness in their families, at work, and in our anxious world. Everything Isn't Terrible will inspire you to confront your anxious self, take charge of your anxiety, and increase your own capacity to choose how you respond to it.

John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of 30, dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians. But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards.

Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn't match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates "thin" with "healthy" is the problem. The solution? The Health at Every Size program. Tune in to your body's expert guidance. Find the joy in movement. Eat what you want, when you want, choosing pleasurable foods that help you to feel good. You too can feel great in your body right now - and this book will show you how.

Wendy K. Williamson shows the effects of bipolar disorder on the mind, body and soul of those who suffer from it. Despite Wendy's struggles, this is a not a book that brings the listener down, rather a road map for wellness and a vastly informative, yet entertaining, guided tour of bipolar disorder for those who don't understand it. With her perceptive self-awareness, the author is equal parts comedienne and educator, and she tells the unbelievable highs and lows of her story with a clear, grounded candor.

In this fully updated fourth edition, Dr. Marc Weissbluth, one of the country's leading pediatricians, overhauls his groundbreaking approach to solving and preventing your children's sleep problems, from infancy through adolescence. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles.

In this strikingly original and groundbreaking audiobook, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Although the Iliad was written 27 centuries ago, it has much to teach about combat trauma, as do the more recent, compelling voices and experiences of Vietnam vets.

No parent experienced their teen years the way that children do today. This guide provides strategies and tips for actively learning the world of our children.