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May is Mental Health Month
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Are u ok?: A Guide to Caring for Your Mental Health
Kati Morton - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover
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A licensed family therapist and You Tube personality, Kati Morton answers the most commonly asked questions about mental health, including when to get help and where to find it.Everyone struggles with mental health issues from time to time, but the greatest level of misunderstanding comes... |
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(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
Kelly Jensen - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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Who's Crazy? What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when such a label gets attached to your everyday experiences? In order to understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there's no single definition of crazy,... |
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The Dana Guide to Brain Health
The Dana Press
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Today, we know beyond any doubt that the brain plays a crucial role in our everyday health, and, indeed, makes us who we are. But the Internet, television, and newspapers abound in contradictory information about it, and, as a result, the insights we wish for and the medical choic |
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Addiction
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Understanding Addiction
Heather C Hudak
Format: Hardcover
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"Describes addiction, its signs, symptoms, and treatment, and its effects on society"-- |
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Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction: Your Self-Treatment Guide to Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Hoarding, Smoking, Sex, and Porn
Christopher Kennedy Lawford - BenBella Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Symptoms of Withdrawal and Moments of Clarity Christopher Kennedy Lawford comes a New York Times bestselling book that will save lives.For most of his early life, Christopher Kennedy Lawford battled life-threatening drug and alcohol addictions. Now in recovery for more than 25 years,... |
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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Judith Grisel - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, this is the authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction that we've been waiting for: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories combine to reveal how addiction happens and what can be done... |
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Anxiety Disorders
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Understanding Anxiety
Celina McManus - Britannia Pr
Format: Hardcover
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Anxiety is a feeling of worry or uneasiness. Anxiety is common, but ongoing or frequent worry may be a sign of an anxiety disorder. Understanding Anxiety explores what anxiety feels like, how it can affect people's lives, and how it can be treated. |
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Anxiety Disorders
Sucheta Connelly
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From obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD) to phobias, millions of people suffer from anxiety that affects their everyday lives. Anxiety Disorders examines the types of anxiety disorders and treatments that may help people who suffer from them. |
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Understanding Panic Attacks
Alexis Burling
Format: Hardcover
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Panic attacks happen when people feel intense fear and anxiety. Their heart beats faster, and they may have trouble breathing. Frequent panic attacks are a sign of panic disorder. Understanding Panic Attacks explores what causes panic attacks, how they can affect people's lives, and how they... |
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Hack Your Anxiety: How to Make Anxiety Work for You in Life, Love, and All That You Do
Alicia H Clark - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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What if the way we're thinking about anxiety is off base? What if there's something about anxiety that can be used for you instead of against you?In this revolutionary new book, Dr. Alicia H. Clark recognizes anxiety as an unsung hero in the path to success and well-being. Anxiety is a powerful... |
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The 10 Best Anxiety Busters: Simple Strategies to Take Control of Your Worry
Margaret Wehrenberg Psy.D. - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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Ready-to-use strategies to tame even your most anxiety-inducing moments. Suffer from a fear of flying? Break out in a sweat during presentations? Experience a sudden panic attack when in a confined space, like an elevator? Whether you're struggling with mild anxiety or battling more... |
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Notes on a Nervous Planet
Matt Haig - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A follow-up to Matt Haig's internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader look at how modern life feeds our anxiety, and how to live a better life.The societies we live in are increasingly making our minds ill, making it feel as though the way we live is engineered... |
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Bipolar Disorder
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Understanding Bipolar Disorder
Kathy MacMillan - Britannia Pr
Format: Hardcover
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Bipolar disorder causes intense mood swings. Sometimes people with bipolar disorder feel energetic and excited. At other times, they feel tired and depressed. Understanding Bipolar Disorder explores what this disorder is like, how it can affect people's lives, and how it can be treated. |
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Bipolar Disorder For Dummies
Joe Kraynak - For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Get an accurate diagnosis and get on with enjoying and living your life! Bipolar Disorder affects many more people than just the millions who suffer from the disease. Like depression and other serious illnesses, bipolar disorder also affects spouses, partners, family members, friends,... |
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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Depression
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The Scar: A Personal History of Depression and Recovery
Mary Cregan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A fearless, candid memoir interweaving the author's descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of this illness.At the age of twenty-seven, married, living in New York, and working in book design, Mary Cregan gives birth to her first child, a daughter she names Anna. But it's... |
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Beyond the Baby Blues: Anxiety and Depression During and After Pregnancy
Rebecca Fox Starr - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Most people have heard of post-partum depression. What many people do not know is that anxiety and depression can be experienced during pregnancy, as well, and the impact can be both debilitating and devastating. This book is a unique combination of one woman's story of her struggle with... |
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Dissociative Disorders
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The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook
Deborah Bray Haddock
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From Eve to Sybil to Truddi Chase, the media have long chronicled the lives of people with dissociative identity disorder (DID) , formerly known as multiple personality disorder. The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook serves as a much-needed bridge for |
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Eating Disorders
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Eating Disorders: What Everyone Needs to Know
B. Timothy Walsh - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Eating disorders are potentially life-threatening psychiatric illnesses commonly accompanied by serious medical problems. They typically appear during adolescence or early adulthood, a time when young people are heading to college or interviewing for a first job. Many people recover fully... |
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Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
Portia de Rossi - Atria Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier . . ." Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood... |
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Obsessed: America's Food Addiction--and My Own
Mika Brzezinski - Weinstein Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Mika Brzezinski is at war against obesity On Morning Joe she is often so adamant about improving Americarsquos eating habits that some people have dubbed her ldquothe food Nazirdquo What they donrsquot know is that Mika wages a personal fight against unhealthy eating habits every day and in this... |
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Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Celina McManus
Format: Hardcover
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People who have obsessive-compulsive disorder have unwanted thoughts called obsessions. They do certain actions, called compulsions, to get rid of these thoughts. Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder explores what this disorder is like, how it can affect people's lives, and how it can be treated. |
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Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
Randy O. Frost - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that’s ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house? Or Jerry and Alvin,... |
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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Coping with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Guide for Families
Cheryl A. Roberts - McFarland; 2 Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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This book is a user friendly discussion of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as it affects individuals and families. PTSD has become better known and more frequently diagnosed, and affects more than just military families. Causes, diagnosis and treatments, including counseling, medication,... |
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Schizophrenia
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Esmé Weijun Wang - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting AwardAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts... |
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When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia
Christopher Bollas - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas asserts that schizophrenics can be helped... |
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Coping with Schizophenia: A Guide For Patients, Families, and Caregivers
Steven Jones
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The only book written specifically for sufferers, as well as their carers and loved ones, this empowering book takes a sensitive and understanding approach to schizophrenia, providing all the information necessary about the condition, its causes, and the range of treatments availa |
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Suicide
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Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves
Jesse Bering - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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For much of his thirties, Jesse Bering thought he was probably going to kill himself. He was a successful psychologist and writer, with books to his name and bylines in major magazines. But none of that mattered. The impulse to take his own life remained. At times it felt all but inescapable.... |
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The Suicide Epidemic
Bradley Steffens - Referencepoint Pr Inc
Format: Hardcover
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The US suicide rate increased 33 percent from 1999 through 2017, and it is now the second-leading cause of death among those aged ten to thirty-four. This book explores the many causes of the epidemic and looks at the human toll it is taking on the roughly 1.5 million people who lose a close... |
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Teens and Suicide
CHERESE CARTLIDGE. - REFERENCEPOINT PR INC
Format: Print book
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Each year in the United States, thousands of youths take their own livesand the teen suicide rate is climbing. Teens and Suicide examines the nature of teen suicide, what causes it, what it is like to live with it, and how or whether it can be treated or cured. |
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Dead Serious: Breaking the Cycle of Teen Suicide
Jane Mersky Leder - Bublish, Incorporated
Format: Paperback
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My brother took his own life on his thirtieth birthday. My life has never been the same. Thirty plus years after publishing the first edition of Dead Serious, this second completely revised and updated edition covers new ground: bullying, social media, LGBTQ teens, suicide prevention programs,... |
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Project Semicolon: Your Story Isn't Over
Amy Bleuel - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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For fans of PostSecret, Humans of New York, and If You Feel Too Much, this collection from suicide-awareness organization Project Semicolon features stories and photos from those struggling with mental illness. Project Semicolon began in 2013 to spread a message of hope: No one struggling... |
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What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
KATE FAGAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From noted on-air commentator and sports journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Maddy Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania campus and whose life reveals with haunting detail and uncommon understanding the struggle of young... |
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Helping Your Child
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Mental Health in Children and Young People: Can we Talk
Dr. Sarah Vohra - Sheldon Press
Format: Paperback
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Mental health difficulties affect about 1 in 10 children and young people, ranging from fears, phobias and panic attacks to obsessions, compulsions and even psychosis. Written by a specialist psychiatrist and packed with expert advice, this comprehensive book highlights the often subtle... |
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