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A new new me / by Oyeyemi, Helen,author.;
"A brilliant, playful new novel about identity and personality, from master storyteller Helen Oyeyemi. What if you had to share your body and life with six different versions of yourself? Kinga-Alojzia lives alone in Prague, but she's never lonely. A different personality takes up residence in her mind each day of the week. Every evening, that day's personality leaves written notes for the next day's self about what transpired. This all works quite well until the day that Kinga, who is Polish, becomes a Czech citizen. She wants to be a model member of her adopted country, but one of her selves seems to be plotting a takeover, scheming to rule them all. A captivating exploration of identity and multiplicity, A NEW NEW ME combines Helen Oyeyemi's crackling, exuberant prose with deep existential questions: What happens when your identities are at war with each other? How many versions of oneself can one self contain?"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Betrayal; Dissociative disorders; Identity (Philosophical concept); Identity (Psychology);

Good morning, monster : five heroic journeys to recovery / by Gildiner, Catherine,1948-author.;
"Catherine Gildiner is a bestselling memoirist, a novelist, and a psychologist who practiced privately for 25 years. This book focuses on five brave men and women who overcame enormous trauma--in her view, heroes who should be celebrated. With a novelist's storytelling gift, Gildiner recounts the details of her patients' struggles and their paths to recovery and weaves in her own tale of her growth as a psychologist. In therapy, patients have to become vulnerable by stripping away their defenses, but so do therapists, who cannot hide behind a title, a desk, or even their specialized knowledge. The five cases described include a successful but lonely musician suffering sexual dysfunction; a young woman who, at the age of eight, had looked after her two siblings after her father, likely a murderer, abandoned them in a rural cottage; a glamorous workaholic whose wealthy, hideously negligent mother had greeted her each morning with "Good Morning, Monster"; an indigenous man who'd suffered greatly at a residential school; and a young woman whose abuse at the hands of her father led to a severe personality disorder. Each patient presents a mystery at first, one that will only be unpacked over years. They arrive, sometimes unwillingly, to try to overcome an immediate challenge in their lives, but discover that the source of their suffering is an entirely different matter. It will take courage to face those realities, and it requires creativity and resourcefulness from their therapist. Each patient embodies the virtues of self-reflection, stoicism, perseverance, and forgiveness as they confront the real source of their problems and work unflinchingly to face the truth. Gildiner's account of her journeys with them is moving and insightful and sometimes humorous. It offers a behind-the-scenes look into the therapist's office and explains how the process can heal even the most unimagineable wounds."--
Subjects: Psychotherapy.; Psychotherapy; Psychologists.; Psychologists;

Notes on a Nervous Planet [electronic resource] : by Haig, Matt.aut; CloudLibrary;
The instant #1 international bestseller from the beloved author of How to Stop Time and The Humans The societies we are part of are increasingly making our minds ill. It very often feels that the way we live is almost engineered to make us unhappy. Whether it is our attitudes toward sleep, the marketing messages that inundate us daily, the constant and hysterical news cycle, social media or even the way we educate our children, we are programming ourselves to put our bodies and minds at odds and setting ourselves up with expectations for our lives that prevent our happiness. When Matt became ill with panic disorder, anxiety and depression, it took him a long time to work out the ways the external world could impact his mental health in positive and negative ways. Notes on a Nervous Planet shares his journey back to happiness and all of the lessons that Matt learned along the way.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Happiness; Personal Memoirs;
© 2019., HarperCollins Canada,

The book of phobias & manias : a history of obsession / by Summerscale, Kate,1965-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of "everyday madness." The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals). Phobias and manias are deeply personal experiences, and among the most common anxiety disorders of our time, but they are also clues to our shared past. The award-winning author Kate Summerscale uses rich and riveting case studies to trace the origins of our obsessions, unearthing a history of human strangeness, from the middle ages to the present day, and a wealth of explanations for some of our most powerful aversions and desires"--
Subjects: Mania.; Phobias.;

Searching for normal : a new approach to understanding mental health, distress, and neurodiversity / by Timimi, Sami,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."More and more people are being diagnosed with ADHD and autism. More and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders. Young people are being medicalised for behaviours that might be explained as entirely normal in other parts of the world. Distress has been commodified over many decades by pharmaceutical companies, the media and the psychiatric establishment. So how can we know when distress is normal and when it is something that needs to be treated? In Searching for Normal, Dr Sami Timimi explores the political and cultural context of these phenomena and presents, instead, a deeply humane approach that looks at the person as a whole-their family context, their culture, their personal resilience -- and advocates for a reframing of how we think about and treat distress"--
Subjects: Distress in adolescents.; Distress (Psychology); Mental health.; Neurodiversity.; Neuroses; Neuroses;

Healthy heart, healthy brain : the proven personalized path to protect your memory, prevent heart attacks and strokes, and avoid chronic illness / by Bale, Bradley,author.; Cool, Lisa Collier,1952-author.; Doneen, Amy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain, Bale and Doneen present a unique, comprehensive program for preventing and reversing cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders that specifically addresses the rising-and alarming-trend of middle-aged people who are increasingly susceptible to cardiovascular and neurological events, including dementia and fatal heart attacks"--
Subjects: Arteries; Arteries; Blood-vessels; Brain; Heart;

More, please : on food, fat, bingeing, longing, and the lust for "enough" / by Specter, Emma,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-196)."An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising culture commentator and writer for Vogue. Millions of us use restrictive diets, intermittent fasting, IV therapies, and Ozempic abuse to shrink until we are sample-size acceptable. But for the 30 million Americans who live with eating disorders, it isn't just about less. More, Please is a chronicle of a lifelong fixation with food -- its power to soothe, to comfort, to offer a fleeting escape from the outside world -- as well as an examination of the ways in which compulsory thinness, diet culture, and the seductive promise of "wellness" have resulted in warping countless Americans' relationship with healthy eating. Melding memoir, reportage, and in-depth interviews with some of the most prominent and knowledgeable commentators currently writing about food, fatness, and disordered eating -- Virginia Sole-Smith, Virgie Tovar, Aiyana Ishmael, Leslie Jamison, and others -- Emma Specter explores binge-eating disorder as both a personal problem and a societal one. In More, Please, she provides a context, a history, and a language for what it means to always want more than you'll allow yourself to have."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Specter, Emma.; Compulsive eating.; Obesity in women; Weight loss.;

Battlefield 2042 [electronic resource]. by Sony Computer Entertainment.;
Game.Battlefield 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise. In a near-future world transformed by disorder, adapt and overcome dynamically changing battlegrounds with the help of your squad and a cutting-edge arsenal. Battlefield 2042 brings unprecedented scale on vast battlegrounds across the globe. Players will take on several massive experiences, from updated multiplayer modes like Conquest and Breakthrough to the all-new Hazard Zone.ESRB Content Rating: M, Mature, 17+ (Violence, blood, strong language).Blu-ray disc compatible with Playstation 4 console ; HDTV 720p/1080i/1080p ; in game surround sound ; 1-64 player online multiplayer (paid subscription and broadband internet connection required) ; 30 GB storage required ; online play required ; PS4 Pro enhanced.
Subjects: Action adventure video games.; Video games.; Sony video games.; First person shooter video games.; Role playing video games.; Adventure video games.; Playstation 4 (Video game console); Video games.; Computer games.; Battlefield 2042 (Game); Imaginary wars and battles; Soldiers; Combat; Computer adventure games;

Battlefield 2042 [electronic resource]. by Microsoft Corporation.;
Game.Battlefield 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise. In a near-future world transformed by disorder, adapt and overcome dynamically changing battlegrounds with the help of your squad and a cutting-edge arsenal. Battlefield 2042 brings unprecedented scale on vast battlegrounds across the globe. Players will take on several massive experiences, from updated multiplayer modes like Conquest and Breakthrough to the all-new Hazard Zone.ESRB Content Rating: M, Mature, 17+ (Violence, blood, strong language).Blu-ray disc compatible with Xbox One console ; HDTV 720p/1080i/1080p/4K Ultra HD ; Dolby Atmos in game surround sound ; 1-64 players (2-4 player co-op) online multiplayer (paid subscription and broadband internet connection required) ; 30 GB storage required ; online play required ; Cross-platform play.
Subjects: Action adventure video games.; Video games.; Xbox video games.; First person shooter video games.; Role playing video games.; Adventure video games.; Xbox One (Video game console); Video games.; Computer games.; Battlefield 2042 (Game); Imaginary wars and battles; Soldiers; Combat; Computer adventure games;

Until my memory fails me : mindfulness practices for cultivating resilience and self-compassion in the face of cognitive decline. by Lukert, Sharon.;
"Through personal accounts from author Sharon Lukert--longtime Buddhist practitioner and chaplain--and the people she has helped, Until My Memory Fails Me provides comfort, peace, and humor to readers adjusting to Mild Cognitive Impairment and early cognitive decline"--Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Mindfulness & Meditation; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Memory Disorders; SELF-HELP / Aging;

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