Highly reviewed mental disorders books

The long-awaited, laugh-out-loud autobiography by the famous creator of Leite’s Culinari, the James Beard Award-winning blog. Born in 1960’s Fall River, Massachusetts into a devotedly Catholic, food-crazed family of Azorean refugees, David Leite had a upbringing that was sitcom material. Yet what no one realized was that this smart-ass, ambitious dreamer always dealt with the terrifying mood swings of bipolar disorder. Following years of futile digging, it was only in his mid-thirties that he eventually discovered the truth about it, sought medical care and started to recover. In the story, David takes the reader along with his signature wit and irony on the exhilarating heights and crushing depths of his life, shares the encouters and stories that shaped him.

In a remarkable combination of sincerity, charm, and empathy, Russell Brand, actor and movie star, mines his own crazy tale and shares the advice and insight he has learned during his 14 years of rehab. Brand refers to those suffering from any kind of dependence, like drugs; nicotine, caffeine, job addiction, social media, and others. Brand knows that dependency can take multiple forms and dimensions, and that it is a routine task to stay safe, happy, and unhooked. Yet what real pain is being your addiction? Russell’s never before revealed the tools and resources that truly kept him away from it. In this book, he not only offers a survival strategy, but also explains how to make sense of the pain masked from your addiction.

Worries and fears holds you away. It’s time to flip the situation around and transform your worries into boosting your life and career. Shook One chronicles a father struggling to conquer those fears and reveals a direction you can follow to resolve the anxieties that could hold you off. Anxiety will no longer be a burden but your fuel. Thanks to therapy, he’s finding out ways to overcome the unfounded fears holding him back. Therapy and vulnerability are not easy topics, but if you manage to do sports few times a week, why can’t you devote the same energy into being mentally fit?

Many tough people are not only difficult to work with, they are toxic and dangerous. When a high-conflict person (HCP) has a personality disorders, they can strike in extreme waves of emotion and hostile behaviors. More frighteningly, once you become the target of a HCP, it’s might be forever. 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life, packed with insightful tips and real-life stories, is an invaluable resource to help you avoid toxic friendships, create positive bonds, and protect your integrity and private life in the process.

To the average clinician, the most difficult, often insoluble cases are always those with borderline personality disorder (BPD). This book is the definitive overview of systematic, structured approach to treating adults with BPD through dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), Marsha M. Linehans. DBT was the first psychotherapy which was found to be effective for BPD. Since then, it has been adapted and tested for a wide range of other emotional dysregulation disorders that are difficult to treat.

Whether you’re looking for freedom from depression or you’re sick of dealing with fear, this book will teach you how to conquer anxiety. This versatile little book is bundled with scientifically validated skills and techniques. The strategies and methods in this book are straightforward, simple enough to make permanent improvements.

Learning what it actually feels like to deal with bipolar disorder and anxiety is nearly difficult when you haven’t lived it; and still, that’s what Lost Marbles does, it reveals the unvarnished truth of dealing with a extreme psychiatric disease to help those that become chronically afflicted or others that love them understand these complexe disordrers and how to overcome them. Lost Marbles mixes self-help techniques with stories of real-world experiences to bring best advices to fight mental illness. Called a novel that ‘surely saves lives,’ whether you have a mental condition and love someone who has it, Lost Marbles will help you explore the almost impossible world of depression and anxiety disorder and provide you with the resources to boost quality of life.

You can feel a wide variety of feelings, such as anxiety, rage, terror, and depression, when you have undergone a traumatic incident. The reality is that there is no right or wrong way to respond to trauma; but there are ways you can learn from your experience and discover your own strength, development, and healing potential. Overcoming Trauma and PTSD provides validated beneficial therapies based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you resolve both psychological and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) physical and mental effects. The book will help you seek comfort from traumatic nightmares, sleeplessness, and any signs that you may suffer. Workshops, checklists and drills are all provided to help you continue to feel good and launch your journey on the road to recovery. The book will help you control your anxiety, deal with traumatic experiences and hallucinations, and help you decide if you need to see a psychiatrist.

It can be a period of fear and concern when you or a loved one are diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorder For Dummies, is an informative guide that describes the distinctions between bipolar I, bipolar II, and cyclothymic disorder; discusses the science underlying the disease; and explores the new treatments, medications, and self-help strategies to relieve and reduce symptoms, work in times of crisis, and plan for psychotic and depressive episodes ahead. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depression, is a neurological condition which induces abnormal mood swings and shifts in energy levels. The positive thing is that bipolar disorder can be well controlled with modern approaches and techniques.

It’s frightening for any parent to see their kid suffer in such way, because of the uncertainty surrounding it, and the problem of treatment at such a young age, psychiatric disorder for children can be especially exhausting. Depression and Your Child offers a unique understanding of depression in childhood, its origins, symptoms and therapies. As a therapist helping troubled children, Serani weaves her own private memories of becoming a suicidal child together with her medical observations. Recent studies, therapies and patterns are portrayed in a way that is easy to understand difficult issues such as self-harm, depression and coping efforts are discussed with positive guidance. Families will learn advice on how to handle a troubled child, what to expect from conventional therapies such as psychotherapy and medicine, how to use therapeutic approaches to cope with anxiety, how to prevent burnout from parents, and how to work beyond medical stress and prepare for the future. Parents and caregivers are sure to find a positive guide to pediatric depression here that highlights the child’s needs even though it shows the need for parents to care for themselves and other family members as well.