Mental Illness 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.

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 ...

Families are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw never imagined that a profound secret was kept under lock and key for 18 years within his family - that his father's mysterious absences, for months at a time, resulted from serious mental illness and involuntary hospitalizations. From the moment his father revealed the truth, during Hinshaw's first spring break from college, he knew his life would change forever.

As an award-winning stuntwoman, Kimberly Shannon Murphy was intimate with pain. For years, she propelled her body through dangerous spaces—medicating the trauma of her childhood sexual abuse with the adrenaline rush that came from pushing herself to the absolute limit. But as Kimberly learned, no matter how much you suppress your past, it always catches up with you.

Dreaming is one of the most underappreciated functions of the human brain, yet our very survival as a species depends on it. In This Is Why You Dream, dual-trained neuroscientist and neurosurgeon Dr. Rahul Jandial explores the landscape of our subconscious, tracing the latest cutting-edge dream research and brain science to show why humans have retained the ability to dream across millennia, and how we can now harness its wondrous powers to improve our sleeping and waking lives.

Este libro se describe principalmente siete métodos prácticos en los antiguos métodos tántricos, que es curar todo tipo de problemas psicológicos y problemas biológicos. también, estas prácticas han dado la visión del ser humano, la forma de desarrollar su visión para que la humanidad perfecta, porque si usted puede practicar estos métodos, entonces usted tendrá la visión acerca de su naturaleza biológica del cuerpo y la naturaleza del cuerpo psicológico, por lo tanto, usted va a ir más allá del límite de la humanidad y obtener la iluminación.porque estos metodos no solo ...

This “incredibly captivating” (Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies) portrait of schizophrenia, the most malignant and mysterious mental illness, by renowned psychiatrist Jeffrey Lieberman, interweaves cultural and scientific history with dramatic patient profiles and clinical experiences to impart a revolutionary message of hope. For the first time in history, we can effectively treat schizophrenia, limiting its disabling effects—and we’re on the verge of being able to prevent the disease’s onset entirely.

This audiobook is nothing but the pure, beautiful sounds of rain. No thunder, no talking, and no surprises. Relax and close your eyes as you let the experience of Pure Rain Sounds wash over you and feel the stress melt away.

We are in the midst of a mental health crisis. An estimated one in five American adults suffer from some form of mental illness. Despite the billions of dollars spent in pharmaceutical research and the rising popularity of antidepressant drugs, we are more depressed and anxious than ever before. What if we’re looking for solutions in the wrong places? What if instead of treating mental illness with prescriptions and medication, we changed what we eat and how we feed our brains?

Vince Granata remembers standing in front of his suburban home in Connecticut the day his mother and father returned from the hospital with his three new siblings in tow. He had just finished scrawling their names in orange chalk on the driveway: Christopher, Timothy, and Elizabeth. Twenty-three years later, Vince was a thousand miles away when he received the news that would change his life - his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home.

How to Build a Healthy Brain is here to help. Written by a passionate advocate for the importance of mental health, Chartered Psychologist Kimberley Wilson draws on the latest research to give practical, holistic advice on how you can protect your brain health by making simple lifestyle choices. With chapters on Sleep, Nutrition, Exercise and Meditation, Kimberley has written an empowering guide to help you look after both your physical and mental well-being.

Are you tired of restless nights, racing thoughts, and waking up feeling exhausted? Discover the ultimate solution to insomnia with Deep Sleep Hypnosis. This outstanding audiobook take you through an expert hypnosis session that will have you experiencing deep mental and physical relaxation, calming your mind, and effortlessly drifting into a rejuvenating sleep. Through soothing guidance and expertly crafted hypnosis techniques, you will release the stress and tension keeping you awake, allowing your body and mind to enter a state of profound restfulness.

One of the country's leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving - and preventing - children's sleep problems. Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. 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.

Whether it's worrying about work, 'doomscrolling' on your phone or overcaffeinating yourself to get through the day, modern lifestyle choices are robbing us from the sleep we deserve. But how can we break free from the vicious cycle of fatigue and insomnia? Allen Carr's Easyway method offers a unique solution. This world-renowned, clinically proven method has helped an estimated 50 million people with their behavioural issues and addictions, including smoking, alcohol, weight control and digital addiction. In this book, this tried-and-tested method is applied to sleeping difficulties.

An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that this condition is untreatable, told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD....

Transforming Overthinking Into Empowerment! You find yourself tossing and turning at night, your mind racing through endless lists of what-ifs, regrets, and future worries. Each thought pulls you deeper into a cycle of anxiety and self-doubt, leaving you feeling trapped and exhausted. But what if recognizing this overwhelming mental pattern could be your first step toward liberation? Introducing Dealing With Negative Thoughts, a compassionate guide packed with practical techniques that will help you calm your mind, nurture a resilient mindset, and reclaim your life. Inside Dealing With ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the latter part of the 19th century. In PTSD, Allan V. Horwitz traces the fluctuations in definitions of and responses to traumatic psychic conditions. Arguing that PTSD, perhaps more than any other diagnostic category, is a lens for showing major historical changes in conceptions of mental illness, he surveys the conditions most likely to produce traumas, the results of those traumas, and how to evaluate the claims of trauma victims.

Suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is difficult, but ironically, it can be made even worse when it mixes with a person's Christian faith. The additional "layer" of religious faith can further complicate and suffocate a faith that is intended to be a source of peace, comfort, and hope. At one point, the author's struggle with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder brought him to a place of complete desperation and hopelessness. For years, he prayed: "Heal me or kill me." The common consensus among professionals is that this mental illness is something that one must learn to cope with and ...

Horribly abused as a child Jenny is adopted by a family that purposely and knowingly ignores her mental health needs and her schizoaffective Disorder. This is Jenny's story of what she endured and continues to endure.

In Fast Asleep, Dr. Michael Mosley brings together the latest, groundbreaking science to explain exactly why it is so important that we regularly get enough sleep. Prone to insomnia, he has taken part in numerous sleep experiments and tested every sleep remedy. Combining personal insight and in-depth research, he explains why so many of us struggle with sleep, what works and what doesn’t, and shares his own myth-busting program to help you achieve a good night’s rest.