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Domestic violence can have crippling effects physically, mentally and emotionally to the victim. Some of the victims experiences are horrifi c and traumatic resulting in mental illness, substance misuse and alcohol abuse. The hostility and anger that comes from the abuse has often led some victims to retaliate in ways that land them in prison or mental institutions. Margret is a victim of domestic violence herself and has worked with victims of abuse....
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Through heart-wrenching twists and unexpected revelations, Beyond Recognition delves into the profound challenges facing the Wilder family when their teenage son shows signs of mental illness. Will Olivia Wilder's determination to find a solution lead to healing or further turmoil? She seeks guidance from the cunning psychiatrist, Dr. Corona Kirby. Corona becomes Olivia's lifeline to navigating the complexities of mental illness.
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According to Marrisa Jean Marie Cross, everybody's most significant life trials can be utilized in some way to help and inspire others. She now realizes, that if she didn't have all those struggles in life, she wouldn't be able to write the books she writes. Marrisa can't describe how painful the emotional pain was from being bullied. However, she knows the bullies who bullied her only made her a stronger person and more capable of helping others....
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Depression. Anxiety. Bipolar. Schizophrenia. Trichotillomania. These are just a few of the many mental disorders that affect millions worldwide. What really happens when you or a loved one is diagnosed with mental illness? What therapies work best? Can a cure be found? Will life ever return to normal?
In Living with Mental Illness, ordinary people who live with different mental illnesses invite readers inside their world and open up to give honest-and...
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"Phobia" is a word that's thrown around a lot in everyday conversation, but it's often used incorrectly. A phobia is a strong, irrational fear of an object or a situation, one that often causes great anxiety. This sensitive and informative volume is a useful guide for readers who may be grappling with a phobia or who know someone who is. In the carefully researched explanations, readers will learn what may cause phobias and how they're diagnosed
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An average of 1400 people call the South African Depression and Anxiety Suicide Helpline every day. And those are just the people who know it exists and are able to reach out for help, either for themselves or for a loved one.
Journalist Marion Scher has spent years speaking to people suffering from depression or some other form of mental illness and felt compelled to share some of these stories in Surfacing. Each chapter tells a different and very...
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“With Love and Theft: A Memoir of Mental Illness”, writer Jocelyn Patten delivers a powerful blow to the stigma surrounding all forms of mental illness. You will see yourself or your loved ones in its pages, no matter the disorder. Love and Theft powerfully illustrates several mental illnesses, while tracing Patten's own battle with the lesser-known schizoaffective disorder. The story begins innocently enough with a high school fear of public...
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What determines the form of mental illness from which particular people suffer? Professor Claridge's central theme is that "psychiatric" disorders, even in their most severe forms-are abnormal manifestations of temperamental and personality characteristics we all possess to a greater or lesser degree. Examining the major forms of abnormality from this point of view, the author puts particular emphasis on the continuity between schizophrenia and normal...
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Living with a mental illness is no easy feat. Balancing life with a mental illness along with other daily battles is unimaginable. The Warrior Project: Life With Mental Illness gives an insights into life with Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety, Self Harm and Bulimia recovery. This book is a must for anyone with a mental illness or anyone whom just wants to see what life is like through the eyes of a warrior. The book includes helpful tips such as: Coping...
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Issues that stem from mental illnesses are always in the news all over the world. From time to time we get to hear about young people committing suicide or criminal offences. There are also cases of the mentally ill who for the reason of insanity do not have the ability to appear in court for criminal offences that otherwise should necessitate court proceedings and sanctions. Due to the experience of some catastrophe in life - perhaps a whole lot...
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A riveting memoir, Millions Like Me, tells the stunningly brave and powerful true account of one man's descent into major depressive and manic episodes and how he found lifesaving therapy and medication to overcome and triumph. When thirty-five-year-old John Medl is involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital, he is sure it is a mistake. A graduate from the University of Dayton with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, John's life appears ideal....
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Are you Christian or thinking about becoming Christian but don't know how to reconcile faith and medicine?
Do you yourself, or someone you love, live with debilitating mental health challenges?
Do you find it necessary to take medicine?
Have you been told to take medicine but can't find meaning in the process?
After over a decade of struggling with serious mental illness,(SMI), Erin Michael Grimm is finally stable and (often) symptom free, though...
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Heather Fowler's fourth collection of short fiction speaks to the language of need. Desperate, obsessive, and even demented need is voiced by characters ill or ill-advised. From modern to historical, cyber to stalker, explicit to tender, the relationships in Elegantly Naked in My Sexy Mental Illness translate love and lust into intimate disorder. How we hear our own need and the way it sounds to others proves, in this addictive collection, an imperfect...
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The author of this book suffers from a severe mental illness called, "schizophrenia." Please do not take the writings in this book seriously. The author supposedly repented to God in front of a crowd of people back in 2008. Immediately, after he repented, something miraculous happened, he claims. Where God gave him anything, he wanted.
This book will continue to be, written as long as the author lives. Some contents in this book may offend because...
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This book is written for Christians, prayer warriors, and believers who understand the warfare in the spiritual realm that has manifested in this dimension. Where there is sin, unforgiveness, & no repentance there's a multitude of open doors of attack that his demons unleash on humans from generation to generations and they have. This book was written by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to bring the practical knowledge of medicine and prayer to...
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Fans of The Thing About Jellyfish and A Snicker of Magic will be swept away by Cindy Baldwin's debut middle grade about a girl coming to terms with her mother's mental illness. When twelve-year-old Della Kelly finds her mother furiously digging black seeds from a watermelon in the middle of the night and talking to people who aren't there, Della worries that it's happening again--that the sickness that put her mama in the hospital four years ago is...
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Neal Wooten grew up in a tiny community atop Sand Mountain, Alabama, where everyone was white and everyone was poor. Prohibition was still embraced. If you wanted alcohol, you had to drive to Georgia or ask the bootlegger sitting next to you in church. Tent revivals, snake handlers, and sacred harp music were the norm, and everyone was welcome as long as you weren't Black, brown, gay, atheist, Muslim, a damn Yankee, or a Tennessee Vol fan. The Wooten's...