Mental Illness

MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: The $ickness Industry, Big Pharma and Suppressed Cures is a no-holds barred critique of mainstream medicine and the various players who make up one of the largest and most profitable industries on the planet. Written by novelists, filmmakers and independent researchers James Morcan & Lance Morcan, with a foreword by retired pharmacist Denis Toovey (author of Better Health for You: An Insider's Big Picture Guide), this explosive book explores the contention that Big Pharma and other participants in the healthcare sector put profits ahead of patients’ wellbeing ...

"You're Not Crazy" is a guide to understanding anxiety works to unpack what anxiety is, how it affects the human body, and how someone can work through their anxious response. Aviles combines the biological, mental, and physiological aspects of the brain with real, practical, and easy-to-implement strategies to help those who struggle with anxiety. This book is also great for those who have loved ones who struggle as a way to better understand what they are going through, with methods and strategies to help them.

In the small town of Ravenbrook, nestled beneath the shadow of towering trees, a haunting secret lurked in the darkness. Every year, on the night of the Harvest Moon, a chilling ritual unfolded, and a terrified soul would vanish without a trace, leaving the town's residents to shudder with fear and disbelief. Amidst this enigmatic atmosphere, a young woman named Emily found herself haunted by a recurring nightmare, a dark figure shrouded in mystery, slowly approaching her in the moonlit woods. Unbeknownst to the townsfolk, Emily carried a burden far beyond their imagination. Plagued by ...

In her stirring, vulnerable new memoir, Karena Dawn reveals what it was like to grow up with a mother suffering from severe mental health issues, and how, during her teenage years, she desperately tried to escape her own inner demons. Addicted to pain-numbing drugs and crippled by severe depression, Karena learned how to use grief as a teacher, releasing herself from guilt and shame and finding the inner strength to go from abandonment to forgiveness, from hopelessness to healing.

In 1994, The Bell Curve and its controversial thesis catapulted the topic of genetic racial differences in IQ to the forefront of a renewed and heated debate. Now, in A Terrible Thing to Waste, award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington adds her incisive analysis to the fray, arguing that IQ is a biased and flawed metric, but that it is useful for tracking cognitive damage. Featuring extensive scientific research and Washington's sharp, lively reporting, A Terrible Thing to Waste is sure to outrage, transform the conversation, and inspire debate.

Part memoir, part Self-Help, and definitely inspirational, TRUE IDENTITY, is a compelling read, a triumphant story, and a story of growth. Dr. Marilyn Francis Walker's stories of triumph over defeat will transpire and restore you.

As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the Best Possible Way), Jenny brings listeners along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way. With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it.

In Beyond Madness—part memoir, part history, and part empathetic guide—Dr. Pruchno draws on her decades as a mental health professional, her own family's experiences with mental illness, and extensive interviews with people with serious mental illness to discuss how individuals live with these illnesses, including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and major depression.

Nathan was different and Sally knew it. From his early childhood, Nathan was bursting with creativity and uncontainable energy, struggling not only with learning issues but also with anxiety and OCD. He saw the world through his own unique lens - one that often caused him to be labeled as "bad", "troubled", or someone in need of "fixing". Bravely choosing to listen to her motherly intuition rather than the loud voices of the world, Sally dared to believe that Nathan's differences could be part of an intentional design.

Treating Depression with Magic Mushrooms - The active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms is called psilocybin. It can treat depression when other drugs have failed. Here is how it works: Psilocybin helps "loosen" the deeply-rooted patterns of thinking and behavior behind many of these mental disorders. It "relaxes" the parts of the brain that controls these behaviors, thus allowing old patterns to change or fade for good. Patients who have received psilocybin have described coming down from the high with "new insights" and changed perspectives on their sadness.

Follow Rebecca Lombardo as she details two years of her twenty-five year battle with mental illness and what brought her to attempt to take her life in 2013. As she recovered from that attempt, she continued to write in the hopes that she would help purge some of the pain in her life. What she never expected was that she could help others as well. This book quite simply began as a blog and became a book; where she opens up about her real and raw emotions during those two years. Set aside any preconceived notions you may have about what a book should be and put yourself in the shoes of ...

In Saving Normal, Allen Frances, one of the world's most influential psychiatrists, warns that mislabeling everyday problems as mental illness has shocking implications for individuals and society: Stigmatizing a healthy person as mentally ill leads to unnecessary, harmful medications, the narrowing of horizons, misallocation of medical resources, and draining of the budgets of families and the nation.

The statistics on suicide are staggering. The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 800,000 people die by suicide every year, which is one person every forty seconds, and for each completed suicide there may be twenty or more attempts. In How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me, Susan Blauner is the perfect emissary for a message of hope and a program of action for these millions of people.

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According to the National Institute of Mental Health, "an estimated 17.3 million adults in the United States alone had at least on major depressive episode." That means that most of us know someone who is going through depression at some level. It appears that it will exponentially increase in the future. In fact suicide rates are skyrocketing as never before. This book gives clarity on the subject, enabling us to help others who suffer from this emotionally paralyzing disease.The reader should know that Dr. Blanton also suffered from this painful illness so he writes not only from ...

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 ...

Filled with simple, everyday actions we can take to avoid disease, promote vitality, and prevent dementia and late onset Alzheimer's, The Aging Brain is an easy-to-use guide to maintaining brain and body health throughout our lives. Based on solid, up-to-date scientific research, the interventions explained in this book not only prevent progression toward dementia even in those who have already shown mild cognitive impairment, they also reduce disability and depression and keep people living independently longer than those who do not practice these methods.

Baritone Isaac Pick is making his international debut. His music master has traveled with him to teach him his part during the trip. Marcel Duprey's estranged father shocks him down to his socks when he receives a command to bring his wife and children to his estate. But he's even more shocked when his half-brother Klaus and Klaus' wife arrive uninvited. Meanwhile, in Tennessee, the families are still trying to recover from when the KKK attacked their homes. In Baltimore, rose was in charge of remodeling the restaurant, and has hired a young woman to work in the kitchen. Was it a mistake?

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.

Hoarding: What Everyone Needs to Know demystifies this complex problem, what it looks like and why it may develop and how it can be treated. With their combined expertise in psychological treatments for hoarding and community interventions, Drs. Steketee and Bratiotis explain how to understand hoarding as a mental illness, describing the disorder in layman's terms and explaining the various facets and manifestations of the behavior.