Mental Illness category: 868 books
Resilience
Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament cult. Jessie...
by Mary
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Connect The Dots is a memoir which I have broken down into two parts: Part 2, The End To The Beginning Of The Rest Of My Life. Part 1, The Beginning To The End Of Life As I Knew It. My life story describes in detail the methodical manipulation process and mind games brought onto me by two players in...
by William Jiang
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Many biographies of people with mental illness seem to dwell primarily on the feeling of hopelessness, and they keep expectations for the sufferer's future low. With this autobiography, Mr. Jiang attempts to turn the tables on this litany of sorrow. He shows himself as a result of the miracles that...
My Schizophrenic Life
The Road to Recovery From Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Vancouver artist Sandra Yuen MacKay has an abnormality of the brain - a disease called schizophrenia. As she says, "my life is schizophrenic because I have schizophrenia. It will always be there". Much of her life has been a struggle to cope with the symptoms of her disease and the side...
by Richard Carlson Jr
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Richard Carlson Jr. was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when he was twenty-one years of age. His illness first manifested when he was an early adolescent. Modern psychiatry greatly failed Richard for over a decade. Then, after an incident involving the police, he truly understood that his diagnosis...
What A Life Can Be
One Therapist's Take on Schizo-affective Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A fascinating look into the world of schizo-affective disorder which, at times, is funny, heartbreaking, but above all uplifting. Dr. Carolyn Dobbins describes the onset and progression of this debilitating disease and gives readers hope. The book breaks through the stigma as mental illness affects...
by Ruby Sisk MA
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
This book is about the need for social reform programs along with the Department of Corrections to gain more appropriate and more satisfying treatments for affected individuals. Studies have shown that more inmates, upon release from incarceration, have little to no resources that help with assistance...
by Don Wooldridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In Fear is My Copilot Don Wooldridge writes about his experiences with Bipolar disorder and how he lived a productive life based on the lessons that he learned along the way as a result of those experiences. This book draws upon Don’s personal experiences—to help each reader understand the disorder,...
Recovery, Meaning-Making, and Severe Mental Illness
A Comprehensive Guide to Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Recovery, Meaning-Making, and Severe Mental Illness offers practitioners an integrative treatment model that will stimulate and harness their creativity, allowing for the formation of new ideas about wellness in the face of profound suffering. The model, Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy...
Mom, Mania, and Me
Surviving and Changing a Volatile Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Life with Diane Dweller’s mother Dixie is unpredictable, especially during the jubilant part of her periodic spells. Dixie hosts large parties, impulsively buys cars and houses, and speeds everywhere. Unfortunately, her spells sometimes include explosive anger. The vivid description of the impact...
No One Cares About Crazy People
The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
* Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award *** Washington Post Notable Book of the Year * People Magazine Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year *
"Extraordinary and courageous . . . No doubt if everyone were to read this book, the world would...
Brilliant Madness
Living with Manic Depressive Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
In her revealing bestseller Call Me Anna, Patty Duke shared her long-kept secret: the talented, Oscar-winning actress who won our hearts on The Patty Duke Show was suffering from a serious-but-treatable-mental illness called manic depression. For nearly twenty years, until she was correctly diagnosed...
by Milt Greek
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Delusions, Meaning and Transformation, a follow up and companion to Schizophrenia: A Blueprint for Recovery, deeply explores psychosis and merges modern treatment approaches into a step-by-step, person-centered "Combined Toolkit". The Combined Toolkit builds on numerous approaches--including...
by James Lowrance
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
This ebook is also a section in "The Everything Anxiety Disorders eBook" and is being made available in this seperate title, for those who wish to read specifically about the distinguishing characteristics of mental and emotional disorders.
In the chapters of this ebook, I present information...