Mental Health Disorders

Are you truly in danger or has your brain simply "tricked" you into thinking you are? In The Worry Trick, psychologist and anxiety expert David Carbonell shows how anxiety hijacks the brain and offers effective techniques to help you break the cycle of worry, once and for all. Anxiety is a powerful force. It makes us question ourselves and our decisions, causes us to worry about the future, and fills our days with dread and emotional turbulence.

Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life introduces Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a new approach to psychotherapy that reevaluates our most basic assumptions about mental health, and details how ACT can help you to embrace life and everything it has to offer.

A central source of frustration for most adults with ADHD is that they know what they need to do but they have difficulties turning their intentions into actions. These difficulties also interfere with their ability to use self-help books and to get the most out of psychosocial treatments that provide coping strategies that promise to improve their functioning. Drs. Ramsay and Rostain are experts in the assessment and treatment of adult ADHD and are leaders in the development of effective psychosocial treatments for this group of patients.

Do your emotions flip from calm to chaos in seconds? Do you find yourself loving someone desperately, then pushing them away without meaning to? Are you constantly told you're “too much”—too intense, too angry, too sensitive, too empty? This book doesn’t offer a cure. It’s not a program. It won’t tell you to “think positive” or “just breathe.”

This training manual for patients who have a trauma-related dissociative disorder includes short educational pieces, homework sheets, and exercises that address ways in which dissociation interferes with essential emotional and life skills, and support inner communication and collaboration with dissociative parts of the personality.

Splitting is an essential legal and psychological guide for anyone divorcing a persuasive blamer: someone who suffers from borderline personality disorder (BPD), narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), and/or antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). This second edition includes new information about antisocial personalities; expanded information about domestic violence, child abuse, alienation, and false allegations; how to approach protective orders and deal with child custody disputes; and a new chapter on how to successfully present your case to decision makers.

With contributions by Paula Morgan-Johnson, Paula Sacks, Caroline R. Baltzer, James Hickey, Andrea Cole, Jan Bloom, and Deirdre Fay, Attachment Disturbances in Adults is a landmark resource for (1) understanding attachment, its development, and the most clinically relevant findings from attachment research, and (2) using this understanding to inform systematic, comprehensive, and clinically effective and efficient treatment of attachment disturbances in adults.

Is stress keeping you up at night? Are you tired of wasting your time and energy worrying all the time? Do you see the irrationality of constant worrying, but you can't seem to stop doing it? Are you ready to learn how to deal with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)? This book will walk you through precisely why, how, and what you need to do to stop worrying and start living your life.

Written by Estelle Rose, productivity coach, best-selling author, and fellow ADHD adult who’s been buried in mess and shame, this gentle 28-day framework helps you reset your space and your mind in just a few minutes a day.

If you're recovering from an Eating Disorder (ED) it's important to take one day at a time. Let 101 Tips for Recovering from Eating Disorders be your companion in healing, and you'll be reminded of the strength and wisdom that's already inside you. This audiobook will help you celebrate the good days and develop solid coping strategies for the bad times. Most importantly, this audiobook will remind that you're not alone and recovery is possible.

Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder is a compassionate and informative guide to understanding this profoundly unsettling - and widely misunderstood - mental illness, believed to affect approximately six percent of the general population. Rather than viewing people with BPD as manipulative opponents in a bitter struggle, or pitying them as emotional invalids, Valerie Porr cites cutting-edge science to show that BPD is a true neurobiological disorder and not, as many come to believe, a character flaw or the result of bad parenting.

"Men with Adult ADHD: 333 Positive Affirmations" is a transformative affirmation book specifically tailored for men navigating the complexities of adult ADHD. It acknowledges the unique ways ADHD manifests in men, often leading to misdiagnosis or a feeling of isolation. This book provides a beacon of hope and understanding, highlighting that while the brain's processing differences in men with ADHD are a subject of ongoing research, there is a path forward.

Le syndrome borderline : comment enfin vraiment comprendre la maladie en tant que personne concernée ou proche et découvrir les possibilités simples d'auto-assistance et de thérapie qui s'offrent à vous - y compris des conseils pratiques pour la vie quotidienne et une partie BONUS avec des « histoires encourageantes ».

Three years before she began writing her New York Times best-selling book I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying, Bassey Ikpi returned to her native Nigeria to try to piece together a life that had fallen apart. Her career had been cut short by a bipolar II diagnosis and hospitalization, and she longed to find her way back to it. Nigeria welcomed her with promise. That fall, she created BasseyWorld presents Naija Poetry Slam, Nigeria's first National Poetry Slam competition, and she started getting hopeful.

No one is better suited to provide people with BD with practical problem-solving help than leading expert David J. Miklowitz. From managing mood swings to dealing with anxiety, getting enough sleep, defusing family conflicts, and troubleshooting medications, this book offers keys to effective self-care.

From Depression to Contentment: A Self-Therapy Guide is a course of therapy in your pocket. You can be your own therapist, changing the way you see yourself and your world. Not only does this save lots of money, it also is 100 percent confidential. The book starts with first aid, provides an understanding of the nature and causes of suffering, instructs you in research-based techniques for dealing with your problems and, finally, teaches you an actual cure for depression.

Narcissistic personality disorder is, in short, the state of self-obsession to such a great extent that the person is delusional in one way or another. It can manifest in many ways and result in the decline of the mental, emotional, and even physical health of the people around the individual. For this reason, it is necessary that you're able to identify what narcissistic personality disorder is, who is most at risk for it, what the symptoms of this disorder are, and what treatment options are available.

Difficulté à gérer des pics émotionnels, alternance d'idées suicidaires et d'enthousiasme excessif, dépendances à l'alcool, au sexe ou aux relations violentes, sentiment douloureux de ne pas savoir qui l'on est, peur panique d'être abandonné... le trouble de personnalité borderline est une maladie bien réelle qui prive ceux qui en sont atteints d'un contrôle de leur vie et d'une reconnaissance de leur souffrance. Mettre en mots la souffrance pour permettre aux malades et à leur entourage de la traverser, tel est l'objectif de ce manuel.

Clients who have experienced traumatic events and seek EMDR therapists rely on them as guides through their most vulnerable moments. Trauma leaves an imprint on the body, and if clinicians don't know how to stay embodied in the midst of these powerful relational moments, they risk shutting down with their clients or becoming overwhelmed by the process. This book offers an integrative model of treatment that teaches therapists how to increase the client's capacity to sense and feel the body.

Part one of Three Years With A Monster comes to you in real time as Dennis scribbled it down in his journal and recapped the events every few months in blog form. You will experience the heartbreaking daily struggle as it unfolds. Eating disorders are nearly impossible to understand unless you come face-to-face with them. This book brings you so close you can smell the monster’s breath. The Wilkinsons were directed to use family-based therapy and dialectical behavioural therapy. Helpful explanations and observations of these tools are contained in this section.