Self Disorder

While leading a double life would seem to be the exclusive domain of psychopaths and undercover agents, thousands of 'regular people' keep extraordinary secrets from those closest to them. Duped is an investigation of compulsive liars - and how they fool their loved ones - drawing on Abby Ellin's personal experience. From the day Abby went on her first date with The Commander, she was caught up in a whirlwind. Within five months he'd proposed, and they'd moved in together.

This affirmations audiobook is designed to provide students who struggle with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with a resource to help them achieve academically, socially, and emotionally.

¿Deseas eliminar rápidamente la ansiedad social? ¿Te sientes a menudo cohibida y crítica de ti misma? ¿Te falta confianza en las situaciones sociales? Si alguna vez luchas con la ansiedad en situaciones sociales, no estás sola. Tal vez te resulte casi imposible conectarte con gente nueva, tu mente se queda en blanco, o temes que empeore. Tal vez hasta te sientas atrapada - tu mente se queda en blanco mientras luchas por encontrar las palabras para expresarte. No importa cómo te sientas, no es culpa tuya. Pero tu ansiedad social no se curará a sí misma...debes tomar medidas.

Get a healing night's sleep and train your brain to repel negative energy, cleanse your spiritual energy, and feel more energized, lighter, and happier when you wake up. Spiritual cleansing is safe, powerful, and a great way to feel revitalized and positive. This sleep talk down meditation with guided hypnosis has a special focus on cleansing energy and creating positivity and healing. It is great for adults, parents, children and students...anyone who is looking for help getting a great night’s sleep.

Shame is a devastating emotion, and one that's often difficult to work through. If you are hurting, you should know that you aren't alone. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Shame offers a step-by-step evidence-based approach to healing from shame using the core skills of emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness. You'll learn to cultivate nonjudgmental self-acceptance, and discover strategies for managing difficult emotions—even in situations that trigger feelings of shame, guilt, or self-directed anger.

In The Diet-Free Diva, Tracy Desjardins provides a healing pathway for you to trust yourself with food and find sustainable peace within yourself—perhaps for the first time ever. What awaits is what Tracy calls your "Best Diva Self"—the you the world needs you to be.

This confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it’s like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Activist author Marissa LaRocca’s revelatory tale includes her struggle with her secrets, including sexuality, and how she emerged as an outspoken advocate for gay rights and women’s health issues.

Did you know that insomnia is the most common sleep disorder, with 30 percent of adults experiencing short-term insomnia? Stress is the number one reason people report a lack of sleep. We have countless thoughts, worries, and anxieties that can make it very difficult to get some quality shut-eye. Sleep medications can help us, to a point. But they often come with unwanted side effects in both the short and long term, ultimately damaging our mental and physical health. Affirmations are a natural strategy that have the power to transform our lives.

What if your greatest challenges could become your greatest strengths? Life has a way of knocking us down — sometimes lightly, sometimes with a force so brutal we wonder if we’ll ever rise again. But what if the very falls that leave us broken also contain the seeds of our greatest transformation? In Victory in Every Fall, Kurt Warner, LMSW, draws inspiration from the Greek myth of Antaeus — a giant who gained strength each time he touched the earth. Like Antaeus, Warner shows us that every time life knocks us down, we have the opportunity to rise even stronger. Through five deeply ...

This is a self-help book that I wrote for those who have bipolar disorder (as I do) and those who have a friend, spouse, or other significant other who is bipolar. It is written for both the patient and the caregiver. I'm not a mental health professional but I've learned a lot in the 38 years since I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I also have 3 people in my immediate family who had bipolar disorder. So, I've been there on both sides and have a unique perspective and enough first-hand experience to be an "expert", whether I want to or not. I know what a rollercoaster ride it can ...

Powerful and eye-opening, Seeing Ezra is an inspirational chronicle of a mother's struggle to protect her son from a system that seeks to compartmentalize and "fix" him, and of her journey toward accepting and valuing him for who he is - just as he is.

Are you tired of living a sluggish, frustrated, and unhealthy life? Does your mental or physical health come in the way of your life, keeping you from accomplishing what you need to? Did you know that these two pillars of your health can be supercharged in just 7 days? The Two Pillars Power Pack is the ultimate 2 In 1 collection to start you on your journey.

The book features a range of case studies while addressing core issues such as self-harm, hallucinations and the threat of suicide, as well as related topics such as depression and psychosis. Illustrating the psychological roots to eating disorders, it places therapy within hospital, clinical and multi-disciplinary contexts, as well as displaying how psychoanalytic theory can be applied across various settings and in different teams.

Seeking reassurance to remove doubt or fear is natural, and we all do it from time to time. However, it becomes a compulsion when it develops into something repetitive and ritualistic. This compulsion is linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), can perpetuate and worsen this condition, and can also create conflict between you, your friends, coworkers, and loved ones. So, how do you stop? The Compulsive Reassurance Seeking Workbook offers proven-effective tools to reduce compulsions, make peace with uncertainty, and better manage your OCD.

Untreated and uncontrolled anger can have very adverse effects on your physical, mental, and emotional health. It can take a toll on you and the people around you. Anger can also affect your relationships, career, family life, and even your general lifestyle. This audiobook will help you to understand anger, guide you to identify your triggers of anger, and learn how to manage it. It uses a simple language to explain the helpful and unhelpful forms of anger. It also describes the steps that you can use to manage it.

The last thing 16-year-old Maisie Martin thought she’d be doing on her vacation is entering a beauty pageant. Not when she’s spent most of her life hiding her body from everyone. As she writes down all the ways this vacation is going from bad to worse in her school-assignment journal, what starts as a homework torture-device might just end up being an account of how Maisie didn’t let anything, or anyone, hold her back.

Overthinking has become a silent epidemic in today's fast-paced, information-heavy world, leaving many of us paralyzed by indecision, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion. This transformative guide offers a compassionate and actionable roadmap to help you break free from the cycle of overthinking and regain your mental clarity. Combining cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and self-compassion strategies, this book provides a holistic approach to understanding and overcoming overthinking.

Author Hattie Cooper, the blogger behind The Anxious Girl's Guide to Dating, knows anxiety. She has lived with generalized anxiety disorder for years. Hattie shares immediate, easy-to-use strategies for tackling your social anxiety disorder and creating healthy habits. Featuring expert advice from foreword writer and registered psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald, the tools in this book will help you beat your anxiety and reveal your most confident self.

Are you struggling with chronic compulsive skin picking, also known as dermatillomania? Imagine what it would be like to have a whole group of friends who have found freedom from skin picking, and who can’t wait to share everything that helped them get better. In Skin Picking: The Freedom We Found, Annette Pasternak (author of the best-selling Skin Picking: The Freedom to Finally Stop), brings you stories of hope and advice from dozens of her clients and other people with Skin Picking Disorder. The book will comfort and inspire you, and give you the tools you need to stop this devastating...

As stratigraphists argue over whether or not the Anthropocene is really a geologic epoch and potential starting dates for it, human civilization marches forward on a path that began 15,000 years ago during the Agricultural Revolution that has directly resulted in the reproductive success of our species and the terraformation of Earth to meet the needs of billions of humans living in metropolises the world over. We have evolved culturally and scientifically at an unprecedented rate, and it is clear from the geological record and through what we have created that the evolution of Homo sapiens...