Mental Disorders

¿Ser adulto mientras afrontas el TDAH te hace sentir como un navegador humano con 73 pestañas abiertas? No está sola, ¡y hay una salida! ¿Alguna vez has sentido que tu mente es una máquina de pinball, con pensamientos rebotando por todas partes? Un minuto estás concentrada en el trabajo, y al siguiente te estás preguntando si apagaste la cafetera esta mañana.

IFS for OCD: A Compassionate Guide to Internal Family Systems Therapy for Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Breaking Free from Intrusive Thoughts, and Finding Inner Peace offers a revolutionary approach to understanding and healing OCD. Drawing on the transformative principles of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, this Audiobook helps you see OCD not as an enemy but as a system of protective parts trying to keep you safe.

Myths about Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder(ADD/ADHD) abound. This disorder frequently goes unrecognized, and even when diagnosed may be inadequately treated. In this up-to-date and clearly written audiobook, a leading expert offers a new way of understanding ADD. Drawing on recent findings in neuroscience and a rich variety of case histories from his own clinical practice, Dr. Thomas E. Brown describes what ADD syndrome is, how it can be recognized at different ages, and how it can best be treated.

When a relationship with a narcissist ends, the caretaking partner is often left confused, deeply hurt, and often still emotionally connected, while the narcissist seems to easily move on to the next relationship. Healing from a Narcissistic Relationship offers guidance about what to expect as the relationship unravels and how to cope with the fallout. It also helps the reader learn to truly disengage and move through the grief process.

In the latest addition to the "My Bipolar World" series, author Sylvia Meier takes another look at one of the areas that affects those with bipolar disorder. And that is stigma. Stigma associated with the bipolar illness and the stigma associated with having a mental health issue as well as that overly stigmatized place, the psych ward. In the opening chapters we see her own descent into the psych ward, with what took her to the locked doors her first night there and more. As the book closed we are left with a better understanding of what it is like to be in the psych ward, why the stigma ...

El TDAH es más que un simple diagnóstico; es una forma única de experimentar el mundo que puede obstaculizar o enriquecer tu vida y tus relaciones. Ya sea que estés navegando por el TDAH a nivel individual o dentro de un matrimonio, este libro es tu guía para prosperar. En TDAH y Tú, exploramos cómo el TDAH impacta nuestra vida diaria y cómo podemos trabajar con él en lugar de resistirlo. Ya sea que hayas sido diagnosticado en la infancia o lo hayas descubierto en la adultez, este libro te ayudará a aceptar la forma única en que funciona tu cerebro y a transformar tus desafíos en fortalezas.

From Dr. Mariel Buqué, a leading trauma psychologist, comes this groundbreaking guide to transforming intergenerational pain into intergenerational abundance. With Break the Cycle, she delivers the definitive guide to healing inherited trauma. Weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the therapy room, Dr. Buqué teaches readers how trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next and how they can break the cycle through tangible therapeutic practices, learning to pass down strength instead of pain to future generations.

Although highly controversial, Hervey Cleckley's Mask of Sanity provides one of the most influential clinical descriptions of psychopathy in the 20th century. At the crux of his argument, Cleckley claims that many psychopathic personalities go undiagnosed because they maintain a social mask that conceals their mental disorder and enables them to blend in with society. Furthermore, many of these affected individuals appear to function normally in accordance with standard psychiatric criteria.

Do you find yourself repeatedly checking your email for no reason, asking others for their opinions about something again and again, or lying awake at night overanalyzing and planning ahead? If so, you probably have a problem with compulsive reassurance seeking. The good news is that you can break free from this "reassurance trap" - this book will show you how. In this unique guide, you'll find proven-effective tips and tools using CBT to help you tolerate uncertainty, face specific worrying scenarios, and gradually reduce the compulsion to incessantly seek reassurance.

Discover how to harness the power of your unique ADHD brain to improve focus, boost productivity, and thrive – starting today. Dealing with adult ADHD can feel like being stuck in chaos. Racing thoughts, difficulty focusing, and struggling with time management might sound familiar if you're a man grappling with ADHD. Maybe you've been told to "just get your act together," making it seem like these challenges are your fault.

In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why you may not realize how much you're eating, what you're eating, or why you're even eating at all.

It's not a surprise that our fast-paced, overly analytical culture is pushing people - especially women - to spend countless hours thinking about negative ideas, feelings, and experiences. Renowned psychologist Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema calls this "overthinking". Her groundbreaking research shows that an increasing number of women - more than half of those in her extensive study - are doing it too much and too often, hindering their ability to lead a satisfying life.

Learn everything you need to know to cope with avoidant personality disorder! In Avoidant Personality Disorder: The Ultimate Guide to Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention, you'll learn about avoidant personality disorder and how it can impact a person's life. This book covers a variety of topics regarding AvPD, including but not limited to feelings of low self-esteem, self-isolation, and discomfort in social situations.

With 10 percent of the Western world’s children suspected of having Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADHD, and a growing number of adults self-diagnosing after decades of struggle, the question must be raised: How could Nature make such a “mistake”? In this updated edition of his groundbreaking classic, Thom Hartmann explains that people with ADHD are not abnormal, disordered, or dysfunctional, but simply “hunters in a farmer’s world.”

El TDAH en adultos puede afectar a los hombres de diferentes maneras. El varón puede experimentarlo de diversas formas, y sus síntomas pueden ser más difíciles de detectar. A menudo se pasan por alto a los síntomas del TDAH en los hombres, lo que hace que muchos de los que luchan con sus capacidades se sientan aislados o confundidos acerca de lo que están experimentando. Aunque los mecanismos subyacentes del TDAH aún se están estudiando, se cree que el cerebro masculino podría procesar la información de forma diferente al femenino, lo que podría explicar algunas de estas diferencias.

We all experience stuckness in our lives. We feel stuck in our relationships, career paths, body struggles, addiction issues, and more. Many of us know what we need to do to move forward—but find ourselves unable to take the leap to make it happen. And then we blame and shame ourselves, and stay in a loop of self-doubt that goes nowhere. The good news is you’re not lazy, crazy, or unmotivated. In this empowering and action-oriented guide, you’ll discover why we can’t think our way forward—and how to break through what’s holding us back.

In Everyday Mindfulness for OCD, you'll discover how you can stay one step ahead of your OCD. You'll learn about the world of mindfulness and how living in the present moment nonjudgmentally is so important when you have OCD. You'll also explore the concept of self-compassion - what it is, what it isn't, how to use it, and why people with OCD benefit from it. Finally, you'll discover daily games, tips, and tricks for outsmarting your OCD, meditations and mindfulness exercises, and much, much more.

Why America's sons are underachieving, and what we can do about it. Something is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere 20 years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates has widened dramatically. In Boys Adrift, Dr. Leonard Sax delves into the scientific literature and draws on more than 20 years of clinical experience to explain why boys and young men are failing in school and disengaged at home.

Pure obsessional obsessive-compulsive disorder, or "Pure O" OCD, is a subtype of OCD that is characterized by intrusive thoughts, images, or urges without any visible symptoms. These "hidden compulsions" can include constant reassurance seeking, obsessive regret or worry, and may involve avoidance, excessive preparation, and thought rituals. They can also cloud your judgement, causing you to make decisions based on fears and compulsions instead of your values. So, how do you break this obsessive cycle?

With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, National Book Award winner Andrew Solomon takes the listener on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policymakers and politicians, drug designers and philosophers, Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease.