Mental Illness

When a loved one is diagnosed with dementia, the world can feel like it's tilting on its axis. Fear, confusion, and heartache become constant companions as you grapple with the challenges of caregiving and the profound changes in your relationship. But amidst the storm, there is hope, resilience, and a path toward acceptance that can lead to a more meaningful and fulfilling journey. In this deeply personal and empowering book, a caregiver shares their experience of navigating the complexities of dementia. With warmth, compassion, and practical wisdom, they guide you through the emotional ...

Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease that has helped thousands of patients, their families, and mental health professionals alike. In clear language, this much-praised and important book describes the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment, and course of schizophrenia, and explores living with it from both the patient’s and the family’s point of view.

It’s 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice. Nearly a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded - physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she’s in danger. Anton is determined to help Edith leave her abusive marriage. Frightened and fifteen years Anton’s senior, Edith is slow to trust. But when she needs a safe place to stay, she lets down her guard, and over the course of ten days an unlikely friendship grows.

For half a century, we have been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking. Now neuroscience shows that it's not that simple: In fact, our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres. Consequently, each hemisphere has both an emotional brain and a thinking brain. In this groundbreaking new book, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor presents these four distinct modules of cells as four characters that make up who we are.

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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 ...

Most people diagnosed with bipolar disorder are sent home with the name of a doctor and multiple prescriptions. However, few people with bipolar disorder are able to find long-term stability with medications alone. Bipolar disorder researcher and expert Julie A. Fast, who was diagnosed with the illness at age thirty-one, and specialist John Preston, PsyD, offer the pioneering Take Charge program used around the world to help listeners promote stability, reduce mood swings, increase work ability, decrease health care costs, and improve relationships.

Delving into evolution, anthropology, sociology, biology, veterinary science, and zoology, they break down the walls between disciplines, redefining the boundaries of medicine. Zoobiquity explores how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients of all species. Both authoritative and accessible, offering cutting-edge research through captivating narratives, this provocative book encourages us to see our essential connection to all living beings

eLit Award Illuminating Digital Publishing Excellence - 2019 Gold Medal Winner in Literary Fiction What's Your Poison is a modern-day fictional story written by Marie Fostino. Published in June of 2018, Fostino's story is a shorter read at 170 Kindle edition pages. Although written as a work of fiction, the novel is inspired by the author's personal experiences in working in a detox and rehabilitation center for addiction. The main character in the story is a middle-aged woman named Sylvia. Compelled to give back to the community by news of the Oklahoma bombing, Sylvia enrolls in EMT school...

Before an accident took her out of the arena, Kami Garrett traveled with the women's professional rodeo circuit. Flashbacks from her crippling injury have made it impossible to perform her routines with confidence, so she settles for providing horseback riding lessons on her great-uncle's ranch in Surprise, Arizona. Kami grew up loving baseball because her father played for the Diamondbacks and they were very close. As the result of her parents' divorce, she refuses to date a pro ballplayer and risk ending up miserable like her mother. Everything changes, however, when a sexy, ambitious ...

Divided into quintets, Up from the Downtrodden offers the possibility of hope to anyone feeling hopeless in the world today. The poems within, culled from a period of inspiration and resurgence after more than a decade of hopeless struggling and despair, honor both the darkness and the light. There is a chance, when the two are integrated, to turn what is bitter in life, sweet. ‘heavy metals’dissociative staring at the wall again they turned up the volume zero calorie heavy metals to defend against they demons

Once they enter the secret corridor . . . they don't come back out. After a controversial law is put into place, anyone that is deemed even remotely suspicious of having a mental illness is sent to their local asylum. When Thomas Baxter is committed to his local asylum, a patient informs him that a section of the facility is being kept a secret for unknown reasons. When Thomas tries to follow up with him about the secret section of the building at a later time, the patient denies having mentioned anything about such a place. Thomas begins to feel his own sanity beginning to slip, as if the ...

For over 20 years, Jim Curtis has battled a mysterious chronic illness. He grew accustomed to living in pain, denial, and despair. But when traditional medical therapies didn't help, he sought answers elsewhere. He traveled the world and met a group of extraordinary people he calls the Stimulati - and what he learned from them ultimately changed his life.

Amelia is a damaged girl from a broken family. It’s hard to be normal when your best friend is a ghost and you’re surrounded by living shadows. As she ages, the shadows only get stronger, threatening her very soul. One will do anything to pull her into his dark realm. To protect her family and loved ones, she may have to make the ultimate sacrifice. Can Amelia find salvation, or will she be lost within the shadows… …Forever? SOUL SISTER is a dark paranormal fantasy that takes place in our modern world. It is a novel of love and hate, life and death, angels and demons, hope and despair.

Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking wisdom and truth in some of the most the most difficult spaces - communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the perfect storm contributing to a public health emergency for teenagers today. In The Anxious Generation, Haidt argues that for the cohort that hit puberty around 2009, their sense of self developed as the threads of three dramatic technological and social changes emerged.

Flora is missing, and I have to find her. She won’t answer my calls, and I’m terrified that she doesn’t love me anymore. Maybe she’s ignoring me because I’m a creep. It’s probably not because she’s been abducted by lizards in suits; they only exist in my paranoid delusions. Probably. I have to warn you, I might not be the most reliable of narrators. If you come with me to look for Flora, you might help keep me sane. Or you might end up in my world instead. I warn you now, this book contains loud noises and flashing images which may upset you. It also leads down unpleasant ...

Many people claim they would rather be diagnosed with cancer than dementia or Alzheimer's. What they may not realize is that decreased or impaired brain function is not a foregone conclusion as we get older. Our own lifestyle choices and habits can have a significant impact - for good or ill - on our brains. And that means there's hope. Drawing from the latest medical research, Dr. Richard Furman helps listeners understand brain health and shows them how to make three powerful lifestyle changes that can help decrease the probability of developing dementia or Alzheimer's.

Dive into the Glitter and Grit of 1970s Stardom with "Super 8" A Tale of Glamour, Danger, and Obsession by Adam Lewis. Are you ready for a journey into the heart of darkness wrapped in the allure of fame? Adam Lewis, the mastermind behind the gripping "Twisted Fate," returns with "Super 8" – a psychological thriller that peels back the layers of glamour to reveal the terrifying underbelly of celebrity life in the '70s. Unravel the Mystery: Natasha, The Star: Meet Natasha, the epitome of desire and beauty in the adult film world of the 1970s. Her life is a whirlwind of adoration, luxury, ...

"Unique and beautifully done...an enriching experience from beginning to end - deep, emotional, and moving." -Sacha T. Y. Fortuné, Discovery Book Review "[Nercessian] is so skilled at creating characters vulnerable and real that we can feel their pain and deeply-set regret...a truly satisfying journey" - Madeline Barbush, Independent Book Review From the author of The Dowry, My Name Was Susan O'Malley follows four college friends into their 60s as they navigate complicated and tragic relationships. When the brother of Tom's first love and Mag's best friend, Susan O' Malley, brings fresh ...

In a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. Animated by a profound sense of empathy, Aviv’s exploration is refracted through her own account of living in a hospital ward at the age of six and meeting a fellow patient with whom her life runs parallel—until it no longer does.