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Mental health emergencies : a first-responder's guide to recognizing and handling mental health crises / by Benas, Nick.; Hart, Michele.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.LSC
Subjects: Mental illness.; Mental health services.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The end of mental illness : how neuroscience is transforming psychiatry and helping prevent or reverse mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD, addictions, PTSD, psychosis, personality disorders, and more / by Amen, Daniel G.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."New hope for those suffering from conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addictions, PTSD, ADHD and more. Though incidence of these conditions is skyrocketing, for the past four decades standard treatment hasn't much changed, and success rates in treating them have barely improved, either. Meanwhile, the stigma of the "mental illness" label-damaging and devastating on its own-can often prevent sufferers from getting the help they need. Brain specialist and bestselling author Dr. Daniel Amen is on the forefront of a new movement within medicine and related disciplines that aims to change all that. In The End of Mental Illness, Dr. Amen draws on the latest findings of neuroscience to challenge an outdated psychiatric paradigm and help readers take control and improve the health of their own brain, minimizing or reversing conditions that may be preventing them from living a full and emotionally healthy life. The End of Mental Illness will help you discover: - Why labeling someone as having a "mental illness" is not only inaccurate but harmful - Why standard treatment may not have helped you or a loved one -and why diagnosing and treating you based on your symptoms alone so often misses the true cause of those symptoms and results in poor outcomes -At least 100 simple things you can do yourself to heal your brain and prevent or reverse the problems that are making you feel sad, mad, or bad - How to identify your "brain type" and what you can do to optimize your particular type - Where to find the kind of health provider who understands and uses the new paradigm of brain health"--
Subjects: Mental health.; Mental illness.; Mental illness;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hidden lives : true stories from people who live with mental illness / by Boden, Andrew.; Rowntree, Lenore,1950-;
A collection of essays on mental illness by writers who suffer from mental illness or have family members diagnosed with mental illness.LSC
Subjects: Mental illness.; Mentally ill;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The better brain : overcome anxiety, combat depression, and reduce ADHD and stress with nutrition / by Kaplan, Bonnie J.,author.; Rucklidge, Julia J.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A paradigm-shifting approach to treating mental disorders like anxiety, depression, and ADHD with food and nutrients, by two leading scientists who share their original, groundbreaking research with readers everywhere for the first time, explaining why nutrients improve brain health, and how to use them"--
Subjects: Mental illness; Mental illness;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Strangers to ourselves : unsettled minds and the stories that make us / by Aviv, Rachel,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The highly anticipated debut from the acclaimed award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv compels us to examine how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our sense of who we are. Mental illnesses are often seen as chronic and intractable forces that take over our lives, that define us. But how much do the stories we tell about our illnesses--and the process of diagnosis--inform their course? In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv writes about how explanations for mental distress may shape our health, our sense of who we are, and the possibilities for who we can be in the world. Drawing on deep, original reporting and unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv follows an Indian woman, celebrated as a saint, who lived in healing temples in Kerala; an incarcerated mother vying for her children's forgiveness after a period of psychosis; a man seeking revenge against a prominent psychoanalytic hospital through a lawsuit that dramatizes the clash between two irreconcilable models of the mind; an affluent young woman whose lifelong psychiatric treatment eventually leads her to go off her meds in a desperate attempt to figure out who she would be without them. Animated by a profound sense of empathy, Aviv's exploration is refracted through her own account of being institutionalized at the age of six and meeting Hava, a friend and fellow patient with whom her life runs parallel--until it no longer does. While the stories unfold in different eras and cultures, they converge in the psychic hinterlands, the outer edges of human experience. Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations and endeavor to recover a sense of agency, in search of new ways to understand a self in the world. Challenging conventional ideas of mental disease as something static, Aviv's accounts are testaments to the porousness and resilience of the mind"--
Subjects: Mental illness; Mentally ill;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The last confessions of Sylvia P. : a novel / by Kravetz, Lee Daniel,author.;
Told through three unique interwoven narratives, this novel reimagines a chapter in the life of Sylvia Plath, telling the story behind the creation of her classic, semi-autobiographical novel The bell jar.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Plath, Sylvia; Plath, Sylvia.; Mental illness;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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8 keys to mental health through exercise / by Hibbert, Christina G.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Mental illness; Exercise therapy.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Made you up / by Zappia, Francesca.;
"Armed with her camera and a Magic 8-Ball and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: High school students; Schizophrenia; Mental illness;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The journey home [videorecording] : family experiences in mental health recovery / by Clarfield, Stuart,film director,film producer.; Mission Media Enterprises,film distributor.;
'The Journey Home' is a documentary film that gathers the experiences and insights of family members in their own words, to provide an intimate glimpse into the journey their families take in facing a mental health challenge. We interviewed 30 family members, from a range of communities, condition types and relationships that include parents, sons & daughters, brothers and sisters, spouses and practitioners. We have created a compilation of family experiences from first onset, through diagnosis, seeking care, life adjustment, family member reactions, challenges of coping and of course reaching a stage of healing and recovery. The film is a conversation and exploration of key aspects of experience and hope viewers see their own experience mirrored in our film.E.DVD.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Personal narratives.; Families; Mental illness.; Mentally ill; Mentally ill;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Insomnia : a novel / by Pinborough, Sarah,1972-author.;
"In this twisty, mind-bending thriller from the bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes, Emma Averill worries that her crippling insomnia is a sign that she's slowly going insane-like the mother she's worked so hard to leave in her past"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Insomnia; Mental illness; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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