Mental Illness

“Exquisite. Full of wry humor, tenderness, and compassion.” —Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author A hilarious and heartbreaking memoir about a mother and son’s outlandish odyssey of self-discovery, and the rag-tag community that rallied to help them when they needed it most...

After recovering from an emotional breakdown, a scrappy high school student dares to be happy and disrupt the social scene. Margaret "Cuckoo" Clarke recently had a brief stay in a mental institution following an emotional breakdown, but she's turning over a new leaf with her "Operation Happiness...

In the vein of It's Kind of a Funny Story and All the Bright Places, comes a captivating, immersive exploration of life with mental illness. For sixteen-year-old Mel Hannigan, bipolar disorder makes life unpredictable. Her latest struggle is balancing her growing feelings in a new relationship...

Joel Dunn Jr. tells the story of how he did everything he could to save his family after his mother left and his father's tenuous hold on sanity unraveled. On a journey from the town of Trent, North Carolina, to the coast, Joel and his little brother Tank thread their way back to their mother, fueled by potato chips, Coke, and the soundtrack of the powerful soul music that their daddy taught them to love.

"Alana Massey's prose is to brutal honesty what a mandolin is to a butter knife: she's sharper; she slices thinner; she shows the cross-section of a truth so deftly--so powerfully and cannily--it's hard to look away, and hard not to feel that something has shifted in you for having read her." --...

DG is five the first time her mother goes away. She’ll go away again and again before DG finally understands why: mental illness and a manipulating husband. DG’s family aren’t like other families. Her father moves them constantly. Moving, along with the stigma of mental illness, isolates the family. In public, they seem the perfect American dream. In private they grow increasingly unstable. Darling Girl unfolds in a series of vignettes spanning 10 years and four continents.

Leading sleep researcher Rosalind Cartwright brings together decades of work on sleep, dreaming, and sleep disorders to propose a new theory of how the mind works continuously. Drawing on her own research and that of others, Cartwright describes how conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings move forward - from waking, into sleep and dreaming, to the next waking day. One main purpose of sleep is to regulate disturbing emotions. Not everyone does this successfully every night.

It is a cautionary tale of the legacy of the danger of a poisonous food additive and the failure of a government, corrupted by greed, to safeguard the health and welfare of its people. This is a handbook that teaches the tools you will need to protect those you love and inform them about the causes of a number of diseases that have, until now, proven inexplicably elusive to a medical community beholden to Big Pharma... While Science Sleeps.

Underneath the dirty lights of the wrestling ring, lies a world far from the glitz and glamour seen by the audience. It's a world of scraped elbows from bloody canvas's long drives in beaten-up cars, and paychecks that barely cover gas money. A world where "enhancement talents" exist-not to win but also not to lose, but to be spectacular at the cost of their own bodies.

Writer and singer Tinky Weisblat kept a journal during the final year of her mother’s life. Jan Weisblat was 93 and suffered from dementia. Pulling Taffy shares journal entries, history, family photographs, and recipes that document their time together. It pays tribute to the vibrant spirit of Jan, whom her daughter called Taffy. This informal, candid memoir explores the ways in which Taffy’s view of the world changes as her Alzheimer’s disease develops... and the ways in which it remains the same.

What is it like to never forget - to be able to retrieve not only every positive moment of every day of your life, but also every painful episode as if it were happening again? Imagine a permanent record of every event of your life constantly running through your brain, making you both master of your past and the prisoner of your relentless memory. Jill Price's memory is so powerful and so detailed that she can remember what she had for breakfast on any given day, going back into the 1970s.

Warum ist es oft so schwierig, nach einer erfolgreichen Diät das Gewicht auch langfristig zu halten? Kaum ist der Anfangsenthusiasmus verflogen, grüßt schon der Jo-Jo-Effekt. Schuld daran: ein kleines Areal in unserem Gehirn, das noch nicht bemerkt hat, dass es heutzutage gut gefüllte Kühlschränke und Essen im Überfluss gibt.

This audiobook is nothing but the pure, beautiful sounds of rain. No thunder, no talking, and no surprises. Relax and close your eyes as you let the experience of Pure Rain Sounds wash over you and feel the stress melt away.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, neurochirurg, ne oferă opinii ale oamenilor de știință din toată lumea, ale căror cercetări revoluționare te pot ajuta să îți intensifici și protejezi funcționarea creierului, și să îți păstrezi sănătatea cognitivă la orice vârstă. Dr. Gupta abordează și afecțiunile neurologice, în mod special boala Alzheimer, și răspunde tuturor întrebărilor referitoare la semnele și simptomele acesteia, învățându-ne cum ne putem menține sănătatea în timp ce îngrijim un partener cu deteriorare cognitivă.

O neurocirurgião Sanjay Gupta conversou com os mais renomados cientistas do mundo para derrubar mitos comuns sobre o envelhecimento e sugerir hábitos simples capazes de postergar e reverter os efeitos do tempo. Neste audiolivro claro e acessível, ele esclarece as principais dúvidas sobre os sintomas do declínio cognitivo, explica se existe a dieta ou o exercício ideal para o cérebro e se há realmente algum benefício em medicamentos, suplementos e vitaminas.

Prepare for an entirely raw, unfiltered and vulnerable glimpse into the clouded reality of what living with bipolar disorder once looked like for Paris Prynkiewicz. Upon finishing this story, you will walk away with a deeper understanding about what living with bipolar disorder is all about from the perspective of someone who was both a PATIENT and an EMPLOYEE (at the exact same clinic she was a patient at).

Overthinking in Relationships and Survivors of Alzheimer's: A Caregiver's Guide to Mental Health and Aging emerges as a beacon of light, offering a repository of understanding and strategies for those entrenched in the dual challenges of caregiving and personal mental health. This compassionate guide delves deep into the heart of Alzheimer’s caregiving, coupled with the pervasive challenge of overthinking in personal relationships.

CBT is a treatment modality that is used to help individuals change their maladaptive thinking patterns. The premise of this technique is that when a person changes his maladaptive thinking patterns that it leads to changes in emotion and behavior as well. This process requires a significant amount of self-awareness because participants not only work to adjust their mindsets but they have to make extensive changes in their behavioral patterns, as well.

In this groundbreaking new book, a Harvard-trained neurologist shows how you can attain lifelong mental fitness. Utilizing the latest breakthroughs in research, Dr. Jeff Victoroff has developed a definitive, life-changing plan that provides you with the powerful, scientifically based methods you need to protect your brain from aging and memory loss. Starting today, you too can save your brain.

An utterly satisfying sequel packed with razor-sharp dialogue, a love triangle you didn't see coming, and the most charismatic dynamic duo you ever met. Now that the infuriating and irresistible Philip Digby has left town for a lead on his sister who disappeared years ago, Zoe Webster is looking...