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A compelling and incisive book that questions the overuse of mental health terms to describe universal human emotions Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of how to define it has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with the inherent stresses and challenges of human experience. A narrative has taken hold that a mental health crisis has been building among young people....
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The author "reveals that many instances of schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alzheimer's, Tourette's, bipolar disorder, and anorexia are likely caused by bacteria, parasites, or viruses. That's right���you can "catch" mental illness." --
"Is it possible to catch autism or OCD the same way we catch the flu? Can a child's contact with cat litter lead to schizophrenia? In her eye-opening new book, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning...
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Mental Illness is a physiological dysfunction that has affected individuals for thousands of years. In this, millions of individuals with mental illness have been left in denial and hostage by humanity. There must be some kind of sound atmosphere for this kind of people. Equality has to be an uplifted and yet a unified form of reconstruction process in the healing of mankind. Therefore, everyone is distracted emotionally. In this book, "Mental Illness"...
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The book is a mock interview that I uniquely put together by hypothetical questions from people that may be in the same position or in an interview with similar types of questions. I go on to discuss the early development signs that may have contributed to my diagnosis. I cover a lot of my experience in this book including details of emergency room visits and hospitalization visits. I also try to provide ideas in order to better benefit from therapy...
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"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. Shortly after the girls returned to the US...
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More than 40 million people in the US suffer from mental health problems--yet less than half receive adequate care and treatment. Even in the 21st century with the most advanced medical care in the world, social stigma still surrounds psychiatric problems, and this, combined with a lack of understanding, perpetuates a national mental health crisis affecting those in need and their families. Ignoring and/or being unaware of a problem can have devastating...
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"On August 25, 2018, Kayla Stoecklein lost her husband, Andrew--megachurch pastor of Inland Hills Church in Chino, California--to suicide. In the wake of the tragedy, she embarked on a brave journey to better understand his harrowing battle with mental illness and, ultimately, to overcome the stigma of suicide. Fear Gone Wild is her intimate account of all that led to that tragic day, including her husband's panic attacks and debilitating bouts of...
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Mental Illness Heal Yourself - To recover from incurable illnesses, you have only to change the way you habitually mistreat yourself in the silence of your self-talk. As you learn to permanently, reverse your attitudes toward yourself, you achieve greater health and inner peace, and only then. After detox, the intoxicating spirits and harmful drugs may be absent from your body, but unclean spirits are still present in your mind and continue to torment...
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So B. it volume 1
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little....
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Research publication volume no. 618
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Research publication volume no. 609
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Mental Illness: The Silent Pandemic is a memoir with a purpose. In this deeply personal and politically motivated account of life in the American South, Dianne Lackey Benedict discusses coming of age in the Bible Belt at a time of heightened racial unrest and unabashed gender inequity. With urgency and candor, Benedict suggests that we are ignoring the most critical issue we are facing today - mental illness.
Based on her personal experience, she...
20) Persons with mental illness in the criminal justice system: the challenge and Colorado's response
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Issue brief volume 04-07
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2004.