Mental Illness

The human mind is an incomprehensible mystery because knowing it is something more puzzling than that. The reason is that every human being has an individual mind. There is a world for him in it. It is very difficult to understand another person. Because everyone is in their world. They can only think of others if they know the ways to get out of their world. If not, they will understand others only with the events of their world. I seek to explain about that incomprehensible world here. Let me start with something they understand first. The reason is that they can only start this from ...

Kelsey Reed, white collar crime’s favorite forensic accountant, finds the fraud behind the false front of numbers. When she takes a job in the Pacific Northwest, she’s stalked at the Portland airport; her hotel room is ransacked; and her life is threatened by a gunman. During the snowstorm of the century, Kelsey disappears. Between Jack Hopper – the attorney that hired her and falls in love with her, and Tee Boone – PI extraordinaire, she is found. Does the insanity in the O’Doul family empire reside only in the mother, or does it run through the whole family? If only Kelsey can ...

1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby.

MAGNETIC - ADDICTIVE - UNEXPECTED - THOUGHT-PROVOKING - CONTROVERSIAL When Perception Becomes Reality. Josh Parker, one of the creative executives at the prestigious advertising agency where Sandra Levy works, is brutally murdered. Sandra is the last person who saw him alive, and together with Inspector Paul Tischmann, she will attempt to solve the mysterious crime. The voices of Sandra and Paul intertwine to give way to a disturbing and chilling psychological thriller set in New York, where nothing and no one is as they seem. BEWARE OF WHAT YOU UNCOVER. THERE ARE SECRETS THAT ARE BEST LEFT...

"A beautifully crafted modern fairy tale journey through humanity’s bleak machine" Ever since she was a child Lily has been pursued by a demonic girl with wormwood eyes. As Lily grows into adulthood, she must deal with her schizophrenic mother’s decline into insanity, the death of a childhood love, and her disturbed adolescence where reality itself becomes unstasble, but must also confront the strange girl that haunts her. Yet Lily discovers that she’s being stalked by a creature much more dangerous than anything she’s ever encountered, and she needs the demon’s help to survive.

"...On par with the style of Freida McFadden.." ".. [was] hooked from the beginning and the end sent me SPINNING!" "..plenty to keep you guessing at what will happen next, a little taste of spice, and that ENDING?! WHAT?!.." Priscilla is a bookstore clerk with a charming, real estate agent for a boyfriend. Ray and Priscilla are navigating through life, nearing their one year anniversary. She realizes her relationship is on the rocks, and seeks therapy for help. Dr. Royce is a locally famous psychiatrist, known for helping people put their lives back together. While he is helping Priscilla, ...

A real-life Talented Mr. Ripley, the unbelievable 30-year run of a shape-shifting con man. The story of Clark Rockefeller is a stranger-than-fiction twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man-because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. The career con man who convincingly passed himself off as Rockefeller was born in a small village in Germany.

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 ...

Self Comes to Mind is a nuanced and original chronicle of the evolution of the human brain. It reveals how the brain's development of a self becomes a challenge to nature's indifference and opens the way for the appearance of culture, a radical break in the course of evolution.

“Pat, we need to kill the dog.” When a sudden mental illness struck his wife, Patrick Dylan found himself living with an eerie stranger. Scared and unprepared, he began a desperate battle to protect her from a mysterious disease, shelter their children from her bizarre behavior, and recover the woman he loved. Within weeks, she had been admitted to the emergency room, the hospital, and the local crisis facility, but none of the experts could provide an answer. As her illness eluded diagnosis, the family’s struggle was only beginning.

For some people, silence is a weapon. For Mallory "Mouse" Dodge, it's a shield. Growing up, she learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. And even though it's been four years since her nightmare ended, she's beginning to worry that the fear that holds her back will last a lifetime. Now, after years of homeschooling with loving adoptive parents, Mallory must face a new milestone - spending her senior year at a public high school.

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.

Un libro que le enseñará al paciente, a sus familiares y amigos, la mejor forma de enfrentar el difícil diagnóstico.

The search for hope is most urgent at the patient's bedside. The Anatomy of Hope takes us there, bringing us into the lives of people at pivotal moments when they reach for and find hope, or when it eludes their grasp. Through these intimate portraits, we learn how to distinguish true hope from false, why some people feel they are undeserving of it, and whether we should ever abandon our search.

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the listener. Set in a place beyond good and evil—literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul—it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis.

You might not have heard of misophonia, but if you are often infuriated by the sound of chewing, breathing, snoring, a clock ticking, or any other specific trigger, you may have experienced it. In fact, it’s thought that one in five of us have it. Sounds Like Misophonia addresses what the condition is, how it manifests, and provides a guide to managing it. By clinical psychologist Dr Jane Gregory, this is the first practical self-help book to make sense of the condition, and help you design your own treatment plan tailored to your unique experience.

How the Brain Lost Its Mind tells the rich and compelling story of two confounding ailments, syphilis and hysteria, and the extraordinary efforts to confront their effects on mental life. How does the mind work? Where does madness lie, in the brain or in the mind? How should it be treated?

Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books—the weird one, the outsider—and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he eats, the bigger he feels. How long can Jake punish himself before he truly disappears?

Dallas, Dealey Plaza, 1963. Nineteen-year-old Mariah Byrne is following her dream of a career in photography. One moment she’s filled with joy and hope watching the president and Mrs. Kennedy drive past. In the next, the world—and Mariah’s life—is split into before and after. What follows, and the unconventional decisions Mariah makes, will affect her and her family forever.

Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 Top Female Authors Contest! The Woman Dana married mother of two has a family she loves! She loves them so much that she has to leave them so they won’t contract her disease, which is common but deadly. Embarrassed and ashamed, Dana acknowledges that she has gone insane. The Worm The pains started in her stomach. They then moved up to her brain where the worm began controlling her while nibbling away on her brain piece by piece, taking full control of her. He has commanded she must leave before he infests her little girls too. The Mission She has to die. In ...