Highly reviewed mental disorders books

In Mothers Who Cant Love: A Loving Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents, gives a compelling look at the destructive effects that unloving mothers has on their children, and shares straightforward, practical strategies to conquer the traumatic legacy. Forward has consulted with a vast number of women for more than 35 years as a psychologist trying to overcome the psychological trauma done by the people who brought them up. Such women are afflicted with anxiety and depression, marriage troubles, loss of confidence and difficulty with honesty, subject to years of ridicule, rivalry, role-reversal, smothering control, psychological deprivation and violence. Forward discusses the Narcissistic Mom, the competitive Mother, the Overly Enmeshed Mother, the Power freak, mothers in need of Parenting, or mothers who neglect their daughters and refuse to shield them from violence. Mothers That Can’t Trust, full of inspiring case studies, details the self-help strategies that Forward has built to change their patients’ lives, teaching people how to conquer emotional trauma and how to behave in their own best interests. Mothers Who Can’t Trust is warm and caring, presenting daughters with the social support and resources they need to repair themselves and restore their self-respect and trust.

When you are like most people dealing with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you know what it feels like to feel confused with strong or fluctuating emotions; have problems with relationships; and continually coping with upsetting feelings and actions. BPD can be extremely hard to manage but thankfully there are ways to maintain control of the symptoms and lead a smoother, safer life. Expanding the key principles of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder can help you overcome and treat some of the common BPD symptoms effectively. Through practical lessons, you can learn the fundamentals of meditation and obtain invaluable input from individuals with BPD through real-life experiences.

Everyone has friends or family member who suffered from depression, or losing a relative.
Too often, one can’t find the right words and struggle as well. Without any help from others, they usually suffer in silence. Speaking from the uncommon viewpoint of someone who seeks professional assistance on a regular basis, Dave Furman offers insight into the resources, motivation, and knowledge people need to help others. Furman draws on his own personal experiences, biblical stories, and wisdom to discuss the hearts and missions of those called to serve others.

She was just Dianna Hart before becoming celebrity Demi Lovato’s mother. In this detailed and deeply touching autobiography, Dianna reveals her story from the very beginning. Despite her conservative childhood, she developed an eating disorder early in her life to obtain a sense of control. Dianna provides a rare viewpoint as a mother who advocates for troubled daughters while trying to pursue her own. Yet as a family, whatever life has thrown at them, they have overcome and come out better than ever. Through great energy, devotion and confidence, Dianna shares her tale of overcoming adversity.

Olga Trujillo had survived years of violence and brutal rape already at a very yound age. During the next ten years, dissociative identity disorder (DID) developed, keeping Olga’s conscious mind away from constant abuse.
In The Sum of My Parts, Olga exposes her life story for the first time, narrating her heroic journey through her incredible recovery from DID. DID is characterized by the existence of two or more personalities, commonly known as multiple personality disorder. Olga strives in this riveting tale to uncover memories of her youth, and Olga’s alternate selves come out at the age of five, until when at the age of thirteen, she decides to ask for help and request bravely healing.

Writer Graeme Cowan took pen to paper on July 24, 2004 and said farewell to his family. Cowan started out on a challenging path away from the edge after four unsuccessful suicide attempts and a five-year episode of depression that his doctor characterized as the worst he ever saw. He has since devoted his career to supporting people with depression and bipolar disorder, and that’s where this book came about. It is important to note that you are not alone when you have extreme depression or bipolar disorder. Back from the Brink is packed with true tales of recovery and rehabilitation, information about treatments, and strategies to bring into action what you have learned. The inspiring stories in this book will teach you and inspire you to make positive improvements when you are able to place one foot in front of the other and eventually start off on the road of recovery. You may find it hard to take the first step towards healing when you have serious depression or bipolar disorder. Within our culture, because of the stigma of mental illness, most individuals with depression or bipolar disorder do not seek assistance or medical care. Isn’t it time we changed our mindset about these diseases?

Writer Corinne Zupko conducted her study of psychology out of desperation as she began to ruin her life by crippling anxiety. In pursuit for ways to do more than simply ease her problems, Corinne started reading A Course in Miracles, meditation, and the modern clinical approaches to anxiety management. She shares what she has experienced in From Anxiety to Love and subtly walks you through the process, helping you to reverse anxiety-based behavior and encourage mindful changes in your thoughts and actions. If you’re dealing with everyday tension and debilitating pain, you’ll find in Corinne’s solution a new path to recovery and healing.

This new version of the bestselling recovery guide One Breath at a Time, integrating Zen meditation practices with the 12 Step Program, will motivate and enlighten you to lead a happier and better life. Through what is considered the foundation of the 21st century’s most powerful rehabilitation effort, Kevin Griffin shares his own remarkable path to sobriety and how he incorporated the Twelve Steps of recovery with mindfulness. One Breath at a Time leads you on a walk through the Steps, exploring essential themes such as Powerlessness or Higher Power through the prism of Buddhism’s central beliefs.

The gripping autobiography by Maureen Cavanagh If You Love Me is the story of a woman who unexpectedly finds herself on the front lines of the heroin crisis while her daughter battles drug use disorder. Maureen’s extraordinary odyssey through the drug epidemic is essentially a profoundly touching mother-daughter tale, fast-paced and heart-warming, tragic and redemptive. After Katie is set to rehab by Mike and Maureen, Maureen goes to bed that night thinking she can see her daughter back in 48 hours. She battles to save Katie’s life, knocking down doors with Mike on the city’s seedy side, kidnapping Katie outside a grocery store, and fighting the drug use addiction tabou in her picturesque New England city. Maureen is thrown into the dark realm of overcrowded rehab centers, which often devour financially concerned families. When Katie races away from one clinic to another, not overcoming her distress, Maureen realizes that even as she is an specialist to bring many men and women into rehab and recovery facilities, she is unable to rescue her own daughter. The incredible story of Maureens takes the drug epidemic out of the darkness and bring it in front of us.

Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be really compassionate, intellectual and amusing. Dr. Shari Manning makes you understand why your partner, child, or friend can have really out-of-control emotions and behaviors. This books is focused on dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), the most common intervention for BPD. Empathic, optimistic and and packed science-driven information this book is tailored for family and friends wishing to help love one having BPD.