Mental Illness

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 ...

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?

“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.

Do you find yourself repeatedly checking your email for no reason, asking others for their opinions about something again and again, or lying awake at night overanalyzing and planning ahead? If so, you probably have a problem with compulsive reassurance seeking. The good news is that you can break free from this "reassurance trap" - this book will show you how. In this unique guide, you'll find proven-effective tips and tools using CBT to help you tolerate uncertainty, face specific worrying scenarios, and gradually reduce the compulsion to incessantly seek reassurance.

The Close sisters are descended from very prominent and wealthy ancestors. When the Close sisters were very young, their parents joined a cult called the MRA, or Moral Rearmament. The family was suddenly uprooted to a cult school in Switzerland and, ultimately, to the Belgian Congo where their father became a surgeon in the war-ravaged republic, and ultimately the personal physician to President Mobutu.

HURT: MENTAL ILLNESS A mother's love is endless and then when you think she's all used up, she gives some more. A mother will do anything to save her child, anything to make the pain go away. But what happens when nothing she does can give her child comfort? For a mother to see self inflicted wounds on her child, is beyond torture, beyond pain. A mother's pain is nothing compared to the pain her child is feeling and the pain her child continues to feel.

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.

How bi-polar disorder looks in the form of poetry. A hilarious account of living with a mental illness while parenting, and trying to maintain, mania, depression, all the highs and lows to match. If you suffer or have ever suffered with a mental illness this book will resonate, and in a very playful way.

Long before Jordan Rubin became one of America’s most respected natural health experts, Crohn's disease nearly ended his life. A once-healthy teenager, Jordan suffered the debilitating effects of the painful and potentially fatal wasting intestinal illness. Jordan researched and developed a revolutionary wellness program based on a more health-promoting diet, including the use of fermented foods, bone broths, and soil-based organisms (SBOs), an often-overlooked but critical component of our ancestors' primitive diet.

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Overthinking is a challenge faced by many people globally which make them unhappy. It is something that you need to stop to be happy again. You need the techniques that will help you to stop overthinking and be in the present. This book will help you out as it is written by someone who once found himself in that state but today is free from the mental illness. On the other hand, stress is what we find ourselves in as we make efforts to meet demands. If you do not manage it well, you may find yourself in a worse state. A guide on how it can be managed is provided in this great book. Among ...

The New York Times best-selling author blends a pitch-perfect childlike voice with keen adult observation as she shares her heartrending, groundbreaking insider's look into the fascinating and frightening world of childhood bipolar disorder.

Everything falls into place for high school junior Cat Morgan: perfect grades, three best friends, and of course, track dreams about to happen. But on November 7th, 2007, Cat’s life collapses with a brain aneurysm and a coma lasting seven days. When she wakes up, Cat discovers more adjustments than she bargained for, physically and mentally. Not only is Cat’s world changing, everyone around her changes too. Mary, the uptight, strict mother, turns into the protector. Rose, the naïve, childish sister, becomes the role of the mature sibling. And Ellie, the distant, shunned friend, must ...

"I returned to my body and enjoyed Miriam who felt the mysteries of my sex organ and its delicate sensitivities with me. She spoke about me not feeling that I’m here and exist without external approval. I thought about the baby that is guided towards a survival relationship with its environment from birth. Smiling at them, crying, making eye contact, copying those around it incessantly, saying hello to them with a bright smile etc., etc. That’s how I am too, I explained to her. My entire being is directed towards broadcasting on the frequency of whoever wants to receive. I stretch my ...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman! A haunting mystery unfolds in the hushed corridors of a private psychiatric hospital. As Kenzie Kirsch delves into the mysterious death of a patient, she stumbles upon illicit human experiments preying on the most vulnerable. The exploitation of those seeking solace and healing is a chilling reality Kenzie cannot ignore. As Kenzie peels back the layers of this twisted conspiracy, she uncovers a startling revelation that strikes at the heart of her own family. Prepare to be enthralled by the intricate web of mystery and intrigue. Shattered to ...

You’ve never met the other wives. None of you know each other, and because of this unconventional arrangement, you can see your husband only one day a week. But you love him so much you don’t care. Or at least that’s what you’ve told yourself. But one day, while you’re doing laundry, you find a scrap of paper in his pocket—an appointment reminder for a woman named Hannah, and you just know it’s another of the wives.

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.

A schizophrenic teenage girl’s manic one-sided romantic obsession with a hog faced poet leads her down a path of confusion and paranoia; while she attempts to seek enlightenment and answers to her ever evolving state of mind, it feels to her, the people in her life will do anything to stop her journey towards becoming illuminated to the mysteries of the universe. Drugs! Angst! Hospitalization! Suicide! Mental Isolation! Poetry and Pig Parts! Ah so is love. In the case file, Ashley reported hearing voices as early as eight years old. The same year her birth mother tried to drown her in a ...

In 1600 the fires of the Inquisition are raging throughout Europe but in England, the laws, medicine and theology have combined to light a fire of their own; the hunt for witches. Henry Gilbert is a prosperous landowner whose only child Rose hears voices. Today it would be diagnosed as schizophrenia but to the physik who tries to cure her it is known as Furor and to her rigid Puritan neighbor it is witchcraft. Henry must defend his daughter from being convicted as a witch and her only defense may lie in Sain Mary's Hospital in London; Bedlam.

Teagan Firestone has always been the dutiful daughter, especially since her mom died. But as her father finally begins to move on, it’s her turn to do the same. Her destination: Pearl Lake, a close-knit community with an entrepreneurial spirit and secrets of its own. One of them is Aaron Saunders, who dropped out of college to work construction for Pearl Lake’s upper class. He’s a mystery and has a playboy reputation - that is, until he meets Teagan. Neither one of them is looking for love, but in a town this small, it’s hard not to let your heart get involved.