Mental Illness

By the time native Sicilian Mariagrazia Buttitta turned 26, she’d planned out the perfect life. After finishing her residency in Buongiorno Medical School, she’d be primed for a job at the prestigious Roma Hospital, the first step toward becoming an Italian Dr. Oz. Instead, she wakes up to discover a medical diagnosis that leaves her almost completely blind. Her family, frustrated and desperate, seeks medical aid in the US, but it comes with a steep price.

A once vibrant oak tree in her yard began dying, voicing cries of help through its dead leaves and moss-covered branches. Inside the house Barbara too was in crisis, the recipient of her husband's anger and rage. As time passes Barbara can no longer stay strong. While she deals with her own demons, the oak too weakens. Based on a true story, this woman takes us inside her emotionally charged existence, letting us feel the anguish of domestic abuse, divorce, attempted suicides, and incarceration in a mental institution.

Step into a haunting vision of the future. In the year 2032, a relentless pandemic grips the world, spreading an insidious madness that knows no bounds. As society grapples with the pervasive grip of insanity, only a few glimmers of hope emerge—innovative technologies promising to shield minds from the relentless torment. But at what cost? Is surrendering one's humanity the only path to salvation?

Are you diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and taking steps to learn the truth about the diagnosis? Maybe you have another diagnosis and sometimes wonder if you’ve been misdiagnosed. Do you or a loved one exhibit symptoms of borderline personality disorder and are so far undiagnosed? Are you a parent needing help establishing a vibrant mental health climate in your home? Borderline personality disorder crosses, mixes, and defies every line defined by mental illness professionals as we once knew it to be.

Follow the lives of several mentally ill patients in a psychiatric facility and what life holds for them in the outside world. Those who smile the most often times have experienced the most pain. Others separate themselves in the feeling of being misunderstood or in search for themselves. In both occasions, the difference between relapsing and feeling okay is being held by a thread. We want to shed the light on the stigma of mental disorders and raise awareness that anyone around us could be experiencing some form or another of these disorders.

In a conversation spanning half hour segments numbering seven on the same number of separate days this religion writer talked with the Reverend Doctor Lawrence Michael Cameron, OAC. The subject: Mental Illness. That is the Reverend Doctor's business and has been for 25 years as a pastoral counselor. We talked by phone to his home in Indiana from mine in Mill Valley, California. An advocate for the mentally ill, Doctor C, as he is affectionately known, bent his comments to let the listener know of his favorable sense of hope for mentally ill people and their treatment.

Rock Bottom, Higher Ground is Denise St. Charles' unapologetic memoir of hitting bottom, confronting the deepest parts of herself, and building a life that fits on her own terms. With candor, humor, and unflinching honesty, she shares her fears, her quirks, her triumphs, and the work it takes to live authentically every day. Rock Bottom, Higher Ground is a powerful memoir about living with mental illness and finding the courage to rise above it.

In The Stranger in My House, author Corrie Corrigan helps you interrupt the pattern by giving you a new way of thinking and being for both you and your child. Step by step, you’ll learn to reconnect to your child and start reclaiming the life mental illness took away when it moved into your house.

If someone had told me in 2008 that the single most time-consuming issue facing me as one of the newest of America’s three thousand-and-eighty-one sheriffs would be mental health, I would have laughed. I was the SWAT team leader. I was a drug education officer on patrol and a street-level narcotics interdiction officer for a larger (by Iowa standards) sheriff’s office. I would do the occasional court-ordered, emergency mental health committal and the random transport from one health care facility to another mental health facility on a judge’s order from time to time.

Experience Mia's remarkable journey of resilience and healing in a story that the listener will find profoundly moving. Innocent Victims is a powerful memoir that will touch your heart and inspire your own path to recovery.

The author describes in detail all the insanity, disturbing behaviors, oppressive symptoms, and various feeling associated with the mental battles within her own mind. The author suffers from clinical depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and borderline personality disorder. She struggles with suicidal thoughts and attempts, self-mutilating behaviors, mania, paranoia, anxiety, and psychosis with intense hallucinations of all five of her senses, and multiple delusions, including the belief that she is the "second-coming of Christ".

In this highly anticipated follow-up to White Trash Damaged, Cass and Tucker have finally found their happily ever after, but can Eric, the band’s brooding drummer, ever let go of his past and find love? Cass Daniels and rocker Tucker White are finally replacing guitar feedback with wedding...

Dr. Michele A. Reiss specializes in helping clients cope with life-threatening illnesses and helping their families through the grieving process. A highly respected therapist, she counseled Randy and Jai Pausch as Randy was dying of pancreatic cancer. Now Dr. Reiss provides comfort and counsel for listeners who are coping with the challenges of serious illness or grief.

This collection of poetry, memoirs, and stories of short fiction presents to the listener such themes as depression, suicide, hopelessness, grief, loss, love, mental illness, and abuse both emotional and physical experienced by the writers or someone close to them. This collection serves to demonstrate that hiding behind shame or fear rather than sharing emotional pain as the authors in these works do is tantamount to putting on a mask; wearing a person suit.

I wanted to write a book to uplift mentally ill people of the harshest variety, schizophrenic or schizoaffective like I have. I wanted to tell the story of my own life, like some people see me. I am not a pitiable sad case. I am a hero who’s gone on adventures. Sometimes I was unstable, but that is not the purpose of my story.

It’s 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice. Nearly a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded - physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she’s in danger. Anton is determined to help Edith leave her abusive marriage. Frightened and fifteen years Anton’s senior, Edith is slow to trust. But when she needs a safe place to stay, she lets down her guard, and over the course of ten days an unlikely friendship grows.

The goal of this book is twofold: to educate the family member or caregiver about their loved one's disease and to equip the listener with identified strategies to assist them in helping their loved one navigate through their mental illness diagnosis successfully and to live a high-functioning life. Meet Linda Denke, PhD, who dialogues and walks alongside her listeners as they navigate the mental health system.

From Hell to Hope: A Memoir of Addiction and Mental Illness takes you on a visceral journey with Kate, from the confusion of her teenage years to the fragile beauty of motherhood. Witness her battle with addiction and bipolar disorder, the desperate lows that threatened to consume her, and the flickering moments of hope that fueled her fight.

Mental Illness, like all other illnesses, can be treated, and if not cured, then it certainly can be managed. This two-volume book will explore the causes, effects, treatments, and possible cures for two of the most well-known mental ailments, bipolar disorder and depression.

Anne M. Fletcher is a trusted New York Times best-selling health and medical writer who visited 15 addiction treatment centers - from outpatient programs for the indigent to famous celebrity rehabs; from the sites of renowned 12-step centers to several unconventional programs - to find out what really happens. What she reveals ranges from inspirational to irresponsible and, in some cases, potentially dangerous.