Highly reviewed mental disorders books

Through authenticity, this book shows what mental illness sounds like or feels like from within, and that it is possible to recover from borderline personality disorder by intense treatment and loved ones support. Reiland was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder at the age of 29, a condition that eventually clarified her volatile anger, deceptive behaviors, and self-destructive periods involving anorexia spells, drug abuse, and promiscuity. If I didn’t think the love bond was good enough, I was manipulative, fiercely grasping and susceptible to tantrums, explosiveness, and frenzied actions of panic. A real facade is the tough chick loner act of self-reliance.

Elizabeth Acker gives an unforgettable account of growing up under the oppressive influence of an physically and psychologically ill parent in I’ll give you something To Cry Over. Elizabeth is forced to slavery by her own mother while being kept away from her father. The novel is a real story of a child dealing with anxiety, psychosis, and depression to survive a cruel mother.

Fascinating praxis experiences and immersive exercices help you interact with emotional recovery, relieve fear and stress, and find your true self. Spencer endured social anxiety to the point it became debilitating. This patient went with psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel in need of anxiety treatment, but in fact he was not physically depressed. Actually, Jacobs Hendel discovered that he and others had undergone abuse in their childhood that forced them to set up psychological barriers that disguised them as depressive symptoms. Jacobs Hendel led them to increasingly productive lives of pleasure and satisfaction with an empathetic and active clinical approach focused on the current research on the restorative ability of our emotions. While traditional counseling helps patients to speak about past experiences which may cause stress and depression, advanced experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), the approach used by Jacobs Hendel and invented by Diana Fosha, PhD, allows one to recognise the defenses and inhibitory feelings (shame, remorse, and anxiety) that obstruct core emotions (anger, disappointment, terror, indignation, happiness, excision). Experiencing core emotions completely allows one to reach an open-hearted environment in which we become relaxed, interested, connected, caring, optimistic, brave, and transparent. Jacobs Hendel includes navigational resources, exercises in body and mind, candid personal observations, and insightful perspectives gleaned from the extraordinary breakthroughs of her clients. She teaches us how to work the Change Triangle in our daily lives and map a fundamentally intimate, effective and optimistic path to well-being and emotional balance.

A darkly funny and frank debut autobiography about one woman’s twenty-year struggle with sex, narcotics, and alcohol dependence in the style of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, and what happens when she actually arrives on the other side. Amy Dresner had it all when she grew up in Beverly Hills: a top-notch education, the most expensive summer camps, and even a weekly shopping allowance. Yet at 24, in San Francisco, she started losing he mind because of meth. She was transferred to a Hollywood Boulevard chain gang for two years, collecting syringes as she moved from rehabs and halfway houses, both dealing with sobriety, drug addiction, and already in her forties. In the spirit of Orange Is the New Black and Jerry Stahls Permanent Midnight, Amy Dresners My Fair Junkie is an informative, darkly humorous, and shamelessly frank tale of a person dealing with all types of dependency, reaching rock bottom, and finding a life worth living path.

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety provides comprehensive studies on self-compassion, carefulness, and psychology to help you lead a happier life. When you have anxiety, you might feel like you’re stuck in a permanent raincloud, even though it’s sunny outside. When left unchecked, depression can harm marriages, cause work-related difficulties, lead to drug misuse, and make you physically sick. You should realize that you can overcome your anxiety one day at a time in a few successful measures. This thoroughly revised and improved second version of The Depression Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook will teach you how to physically reshape your brain by modifying everyday habits and learning new mindfulness techniques. Rather of attempting to escape your anxiety fruitlessly, by accepting your emotions, you can learn to concentrate on leading a healthy life. There are hundreds of books trying to help you overcome depression and bring an end to it. What if these symptoms are actually indicators that something needs to change in your life ? The workbook uses empathy and dedication counseling (ACT) strategies to deliver a comprehensive anxiety recovery program that can help you embrace your emotions rather than attempt to suppress them fruitlessly. Using the skills presented in this book, you’ll be able to go through your depression, experience peace and happiness, and enjoy a better life

Depression can feel like a spiraling downward, dragging you into a pit of depression, tiredness and apathy. Neuroscientist Alex Korb demystifies the intricate brain pathways that cause depression in The Upward Spiral and provides a realistic and successful solution to recovery. Based on the new scientific study, this book provides hundreds of simple tips that you should use every day to rewire your mind and build an upward spiral to a happier, peaceful existence. This book provides insights at the psychology underlying our feelings, opinions and behavior. There are several practical steps you may take to change the function of the mind and chemistry in order to cope with depression. Small changes may have major consequences in the direction of recovery.

Beyond Blue covers a broad variety of subjects ranging from codependency to alcoholism, unhealthy body confidence and postpartum depression, from herbal medicine and psychopharmacology, treating anxiety and applying counseling exercises. Due to her laser humour and sense of humor from Erma Bombeck, every chapter is both amusing and intense.

Dr. Amen discusses that you will reach your full potential in his groundbreaking new book, Change Your Brain Change Your Life.
Dr. Amen has spent the last decade using state-of-the-art brain scanning technologies to help thousands of people understand how wired their minds could influence their feelings and emotions. He discusses that brain functions are correlated with particular problems, offers comprehensive checklists to help you recognise the problems, and provides complex and simple strategies to help improve brain function and solve any problem. Some of the fear, fatigue, constant stress, frustration, and distraction-related problems are linked to five different brain structures. You’ll be amazed by the vivid before-and-after brain scans showing the real impact of the treatment, and how it can help you. To grasp the root of your specific problem, you definitely don’t want a brain scan, but these stunning pictures will motivate you to make concrete and successful improvements. Your fear, depression, frustration, obsessiveness, and impulsiveness can be linked distinct patterns in brain scans. It’s all related to how the brain cells are connected and communicates between each other. Yet for the brain you’re born with is not stuck to this state, you can make it evolve by reading the book.

Rachel Reiland screamed after she learned the words borderline personality disorder (BPD), on her mental hospital discharge documents. As the manager, daughter, and mother of small children will quickly discover, borderline personality disorder (BPD) was the condition that largely explained her volatile rage, dishonest habits, and self-destructive tendencies, like crippling periods of drug abuse. Her experience is terrifying, but nevertheless hopeful; providing living evidence that it is possible to recover from this tenacious psychological condition by rigorous treatment and loved one’s help and support.

Dealing with depression requires having to embrace it and view it as a real illness for Gillian Marchenko. In this book she outlines her struggle to find a way to deal with depression through multiple treatments and drugs. Yet hope remains as she discovers how to cope with depression.