Mental Health Schizophrenia

The author introduces you to the illness, its symptoms, and causes. Stephanie Anne Allen goes on to share her own intimate battle with the devastating mental illness. She then describes exactly what methods, tips, and guidelines she used to cope with and overcome the illness. She provides you with hope, by her own example, that recovery from this mental illness is possible. And to top it all off, Stephanie ends with some very deep inspirational quotes dedicated entirely to those who suffer from schizophrenia.

Mind is the root problem of all the problems. Millions around the world are suffering from overthinking, negative thinking, compulsive thinking, and depressive thinking. For these people, their mind is a curse, as it is constantly playing havoc on their health and happiness. This book is divided into 2 parts. The first part introduces the reader to 20 characteristics of the mind and the second describes 20 activities that will help the reader to break the continuous chatter of the mind giving them relief and freedom from the incessant rant of the voice in the head. Do you suffer from a ...

She was carried off by law enforcement in a straitjacket. She was committed and institutionalized. She was carted off on a gurney by paramedics over 20 times with 10 visits ending in the ICU (intensive care unit). She lost her husband and caretaker. More than once, she was thought unfixable by society, family and the medical profession. Like Mother, Like Son tells the inspiring story of an ordinary mother and homemaker who overcame mental illness and loss to live her best life. With her indomitable spirit, she faced her end-of-life illnesses with strength, grace and a smile. Experience the ...

A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-healthcare crisis in the United States. Dr. Rosenberg gives listeners an inside look at the historical, political, and economic forces that have resulted in the greatest social crisis of the 21st century. The culmination of a seven-year inquiry, Bedlam is not only a rallying cry for change, but also a guidebook for how we move forward with care and compassion, with resources that have never before been compiled.

Dan Mathews knew that his witty, bawdy 78-year-old mother, Perry, was unable to maintain her fierce independence - so he flew her across the country to Virginia to live with him in an 1870 townhouse badly in need of repairs. But to Dan, a screwdriver is a cocktail not a tool, and he was soon overwhelmed with two fixer-uppers: the house and his mother.

In this updated second edition, available only as an audiobook, Randye Kaye tells listeners, in the introduction and epilogue, about what happened in the decade after the initial release of Ben Behind His Voices. Yes, Ben is still here, still living real-life "Chutes and Ladders". When we first meet Ben, he's a sweet, intelligent, seemingly well-adjusted youngster. Fast forward to his teenage years and Ben's life has spun out of control. He's swept along by an illness over which he has no control—one that results in homelessness, hospitalizations, and finally a diagnosis.

In David's third book, the author deliberately details the struggles of living with Schizophrenia in an honest and revealing manner. David brings with him 18 years of experience living with psychosis being a born again Christian. He also adds his psychology expertise to the forefront of his insight having earned a psychology degree from Trent University. David talks about his instability originating from failed newer anti-psychotic medications. He describes his personal turmoil of harboring unforgiveness from feeling neglected, rejected and abandoned by family and society having to live ...

Adam is a pretty regular teen, except he's navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia. His hallucinations include a cast of characters that range from the good (beautiful Rebecca) to the bad (angry Mob Boss) to the just plain weird (polite naked guy). An experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world. When Adam meets Maya, a fiercely intelligent girl, he desperately wants to be the normal, great guy that she thinks he is. But as the miracle drug begins to fail, how long can he keep this secret from the girl of his dreams?

The debut of an important new literary voice: Marin Sardy's extraordinarily affecting, fiercely intelligent memoir unflinchingly traces the path of the schizophrenia that runs in her family. Against the starkly beautiful backdrop of Anchorage, Alaska, where the author grew up, Marin Sardy weaves a fearless account of the shapeless thief - the schizophrenia - that kept her mother immersed in a world of private delusion and later manifested in her brother, ultimately claiming his life.

When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle, in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of professors, the boys were best friends and fierce rivals who soon followed each other to Yale University. Michael blazed through Yale in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. Then one day, Jonathan received a devastating call: Michael had suffered a psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Michael was still in hospital when he learned he'd been accepted to Yale Law School.

It is amazing how the body is connected. Actually, it is not so much that it is amaziing but that healthcare providers do not even consider it as a possibility. In this book, the links between most of the common mental health disgnoses, such as depression and anxiety for example, and diseases of the ears nose and throat are discussed. By takning a comprehensive approach to health and wellness, pateitn care out outcomes of disease management can only be improved.

In this book Travis describes to the listener what living with schizophrenia and autism is like. Follow Travis as he shares about his hallucinations, voices, and delusions. Travis shares how television characters and news anchors talk to him. He thinks they have a special message to deliver to him. Travis also talks about having to punish himself because the voices say he is not a real person.

Do you have a fast and hectic lifestyle? Do you always feel tired and stressed? Are you always in an alert and tense mode? Have you stopped enjoying the simple pleasures of life? Do you feel under pressure continuously through out the whole day? Do you crave for a more relaxed and easy life? Do you suffer from blood pressure or diabetes or any other lifestyle diseases? If your answer for any of the above questions is ‘YES’, then you need to read this book! Most of the 8 billion people of this planet are aimlessly just running around and working like robots and machines. They are not ...

All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; Kait would protect her, include her, cuddle and comfort her, and, to Kyleigh, her big sister was her whole world. As they grew, however, and as Kait entered adolescence, her personality began to change. She was lashing out emotionally and physically, and losing touch with reality in certain ways.

Does bipolar disorder occur in children? What are some of the main elements of a bipolar disorder? What is so difficult about diagnosing bipolar disorder? What are possible solutions? These and many other questions will be answered in this book. Aside from this, clinical concepts will be discussed, as well as nutritional resources, the connection to autism, suicidal tendencies, and the overlap of the symptoms in schizophrenia.

Richard Carlson Jr. was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when he was 21 years of age. His illness first manifested when he was an early adolescent. Modern psychiatry greatly failed Richard for over a decade. Then, after an incident involving the police, he truly understood that his diagnosis was real, and finally began the long process of recovery. Over 10 years later, his life is greatly improved. In the course of his treatment, Richard also recovered from depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and lethargy.

An electrifying true story of one young woman's nightmarish descent into the hell of schizophrenia and her courageous battle to rejoin the real world, such is the story of Lori Schiller. Once she had it all - a loving family, devoted friends, intelligence, and opportunity. Then at age 15 she began to suffer from symptoms of schizophrenia, hearing voices that began to take over her life. At 23, she committed herself to a private mental institution and spent the next 7 years waging a war against the voices that urged her to kill her family, her doctor, herself. This account of a journey into and out of madness is at once gripping, heartening, and ultimately triumphant.

Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started years before that. In the midst of a high functioning life at Yale, Stanford and the literary world, she would find herself floored by an overwhelming terror that 'spread like blood', or convinced that she was dead, or that her friends were robots, or spiders were eating holes in her brain.

Do you suffer from depression, stress, anxiety, nervousness, panic attacks, or mood swings? Do you feel like crying without any reason? Do you feel helpless or hopeless? Do you feel tired always? Do you feel a void in your life, even though you seem to have all the luxury of life? Are you experiencing insomnia or excess sleep? Do you feel sad most of the time even though there is no external reason to feel that way? Do you feel you have no control over your mind, and it keeps on chattering non-stop, and you can’t seem to slow it down? Do you feel overwhelmed with emotions? If the answer ...

A journey into the heartland of psychiatry. This audiobook debunks myths, challenges assumptions and offers fresh insight into what it means to be mentally ill. And what it means to be human. This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health was previously published in 2019 in hardback under the title The Heartland. Nathan Filer's podcast, Why Do I Feel?, is available to stream wherever you listen.