Mental Illness Depression

Mental Illness, like all other illnesses, can be treated, and if not cured, then it certainly can be managed. This two-volume book will explore the causes, effects, treatments, and possible cures for two of the most well-known mental ailments, bipolar disorder and depression.

For more than 20 years, The Baby Book author William Sears' advice has been trusted by millions across the country, and around the world. Now, he and The Anti-Alzheimer's Prescription author Vincent M. Fortanasce have put together the essential guide to a clearer, calmer, and happier brain. Laced with relatable personal stories from family members and patients, The Healthy Brain Book weds Fortanasce's deep neurological and psychiatric expertise with Sears' sympathetic bedside manner and listener-friendly writing.

This book is presented primarily to adult heterosexual males who find themselves hopelessly addicted to pornography and are unwilling to seek professional help or the help from a support group. This will be the DIY, self help, by the seat of your pants recovery book. I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist, therapist, counselor, reverend, etc. nor do I have any education in these various professional categories. I am someone who has been addicted to pornography most of my natural life. I am presenting the methods of what has worked for me in hope that it might give someone else with the same ...

Death is an experience that we will all have. As I write this book a dear one has been diagnosed with a terminal cancer. It has been heartbreaking to watch him wither away every day. The only way that I get through life’s challenges is through writing. This book captures my thoughts about death and grief, reflecting on how I want to live before I die. These are my gentle thoughts in words in this hard times.

August is a misfit with a pyro streak, and Jack is a golden boy on the varsity rugby team - but their intense friendship goes way back. Jack begins to see increasingly vivid hallucinations that take the form of an elaborate fantasy kingdom creeping into the edges of the real world. With their parents' unreliable behavior, August decides to help Jack the way he always has - on his own. He accepts the visions as reality, even when Jack leads them on a quest to fulfill a dark prophecy.

For fans of Wintergirls, The Delinquent Hero is a heart-wrenching mystery about a grieving teen’s search for answers about her anorexic sister’s sudden and tragic accident. It’s the haunting question in these situations: why? Everyone is saying Kat fell and hit her head, causing a catastrophic brain bleed. She’s severely malnourished and on life support, and in a few days, the doctors will remove the ventilator. But when 18-year-old Molly visits her sister’s rental house, it looks more like a crime scene that someone cleaned up. Stories about what happened are inconsistent. Later ...

HURT: MENTAL ILLNESS A mother's love is endless and then when you think she's all used up, she gives some more. A mother will do anything to save her child, anything to make the pain go away. But what happens when nothing she does can give her child comfort? For a mother to see self inflicted wounds on her child, is beyond torture, beyond pain. A mother's pain is nothing compared to the pain her child is feeling and the pain her child continues to feel.

The truth is, we all experience the occasional negative thinking from time to time, but if you feel overwhelmed by these thoughts too often, then you need to closely examine how these thoughts are negatively impacting your lifestyle. The solution is to practice specific strategies and techniques that create more "space" in your mind to enjoy inner peace and happiness. With these habits, you'll learn to prioritize what's most important in your life, what no longer serves your goals, and how you want to live on a daily basis.

Based on his 55 years of daily Buddhist practice, Mike Lisagor reveals how Buddhism - which offers teachings of personal and social transformation - has helped him deal with his wife's serious illness, his own childhood trauma, and the death of his sister. Here too is hard-won wisdom on relationships, with powerful insights on marriage and parenting. Great for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. This new edition was updated in October 2024 and includes an overview of SGI Nichiren Buddhism, a glossary of Buddhist terms, and a reader's guide. A free Flipbook version of this book and Mike's ...

'I never truly knew the meaning of faith until I was so filled with fear. It was then that God reached out His hand and saved me from the depths of confusion and despair. This powerful experience is one I will never forget...' In her second book, author Dolores Ayotte continues to offer practical, down-to-earth, and easy-to-incorporate bits of wisdom into life's daily routine. Once again, Ayotte uses her unique sense of humor, quotes, and anecdotes, as well as her gift for story telling to get across her well-thought out steps to a happier self. If you are going through a difficult time and...

She did everything right. She lost her home, health and business anyway. Be a good person. Be a good worker. Success will follow. Those were the rules author Denise Kawaii lived by. After surviving a childhood fraught with family dysfunction and poverty, she’d finally found the success she’d always sought. She had a little blue suburban house, a baby on her hip, and a rapidly expanding business. Things were, in a word, perfect. But when her best friend died, starting a rapid-fire series of death, ill health and loss, nothing could stop the unravelling of her middle-class life. When ...

August Griffin has lived with mental illness and Tourette’s Syndrome his entire life. For the last five years, he has bounced in and out of the hospital, adding strain to his already precarious living situation with his ailing mother. Life is an uphill battle... that is, until he meets Marnie Robertson in the hospital’s psychiatric ward. The two are complete opposites. Where August is shy and timid, she is wild and vivacious. Where he is poor, she comes from a wealthy family. Despite their differences, August and Marnie share, not only their personal struggles, but their love for ...

Seventeen-year-old Katie Price has a rare disease that makes exposure to even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Confined to her house during the day, her company is limited to her widowed father and her best friend. It isn't until after nightfall that Katie's world opens up, when she takes her guitar to the local train station and plays for the people coming and going. Charlie Reed is a former all-star athlete at a crossroads in his life - and the boy Katie has secretly admired from afar for years. When he happens upon her playing guitar one night, fate intervenes and the two embark on a star-crossed romance.

Parole and probation officers must deal with individuals suffering from psychiatric or substance abuse disorders on a frequent basis. Ellis Amdur and Alan Pelton offer parole and probation officers a comprehensive set of strategies to keep themselves as well as the general public safe, while functioning at the highest level of professionalism. The first section of this book offers an overview of the role of community corrections in dealing with the mentally ill and/or substance abusing offender. The second section is tactical: everything from field safety and tactical planning on one side, ...

The mean streets of Skid Row teem with unhappy characters. Each has his or her own sordid tale to tell about their current condition and the sorry fate that deposited them there. Meet ""Narrator"", a documentary film maker who has come to interview these hapless souls. Through the lens of his camera, he hopes to improve his understanding of their plight and the struggles they confront in their daily quest for survival. His story will focus on a minor mystery with major implications. Who killed Cassandra's cat? And why?

What if finding her means losing himself? Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he could travel through time. When he was 10, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at 15, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he's actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have "superpowers".

This book is the 2nd Edition of “With God All Things Are Possible” which contains five additional Christian testimonies of God’s awesome life-changing power. This book contains nine testimonials of God doing the impossible. Testimonials of God’s redeeming power. Each person can truthfully say, “Jesus, I trust in You.”And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.(John 8:32, NKJV, emphasis added)Jesus is the truth, and the truth will make you free. Each of the persons in this book were all set free by Jesus. Some were in a physical prison, and some were in a ...

NEW REFORMAT FOR KINDLE I have had the opportunity to review and read THE THIN BLUE LIFELINE and I cannot recommend this book highly enough. This moves policing communication so far beyond "Verbal Judo" and "Tac Com" that those systems cannot even compare (though, to be sure, there are some similar techniques that they utilise in those systems). It is relevant, well-written, operationally-based, and goes to the heart of the matter in dealing with people who are in crisis - not just for dealing with "mentally ill" folks - but virtually everyone with whom police officers come into contact....

In 2017, 23-year old adult entertainment industry performer August Ames tragically took her own life. In the aftermath of her death, the media pointed the blame in all directions: social justice warriors who took issue with August's decision to not perform with a certain male performer; her husband, Kevin; a performer named Markus Dupree, who roughed August up during a film shooting; even her own family. For the first time since her death, August's mother Hilary opens up in a tell-all memoir about her life with and without her beloved daughter, better known to the family by her real name, ...

Suicide has reached epidemic proportions in America, claiming over 45,000 lives each year—more than car accidents or homicides. For every person who dies there are about 10 unsuccessful attempts. Yet suicides are preventable, if we can grasp the complex factors behind it and look out for suicide’s signs in our families, communities, and colleagues. In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed journalist James Barrat delivers these insights with a deep dive into America’s suicide crisis.