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Touched with Fire:
Manic-Depressive Illness
and the Artistic Temperament. Kay
Redfield Jamison.
Publishers Weekly
Drawing from the lives of artists such as Van Gogh, Byron, Virginia Woolf and
several others. Jamison examines the links between manic-depression and
creativity and informs it's readers of the biological foundations of manic
depression as relates to artists who have the illness. Byron's
life is discussed in considerable detail, is used as a particularly fascinating example of the complex interaction among heredity, mood, temperament, and poetic work. Jamison reviews the
substantial, rapidly accumulating, and remarkably consistent findings from biographic and scientific studies that demonstrate a markedly increased rate of severe mood disorders and suicide in artists, writers, and composers. She then discusses
reasons why this link between mania, depression, and artistic creativity might
exist
Rated 5 stars out of 5 by readers.
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The Dance of Connection:
How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate
A columnist with New Woman Magazine as well as a staff psychologist and a psychotherapist at the Menninger
Clinic, Lerner's mass appeal results from her ability to break down difficult psychological concepts into plain
language. Filled with compelling personal stories and case examples, Lerner outlines bold new
"voice lessons" that show us how to speak with honor and personal integrity, even when the
other person behaves badly. Whether we're dealing with a partner, parent, sister, or best friend, The Dance of Connection teaches us how to navigate our most important relationships with clarity, courage, and joyous conviction. Lerner then discusses problems that can surface in adult relationships, including
how adult children may talk with their parents. She shows that criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling all have the
potential to cripple or destroy a marriage. Each chapter analyzes a specific problem with case histories and possible solutions or outcomes. What results is an accessible and well-organized work that, with its predecessors, belongs in all libraries.
Highly recommended.
click on book and find excerpt link on the right hand side of the page, (chapter
one) Positive reviews across the board
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
By Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD - an international authority on manic-depressive
illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a
remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the
fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to
learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a
world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.
Jamison's memoir springs from her dual perspective as both a well-known psychiatric expert in manic depression
and a sufferer of the disease. This book is rated 5 starts out of 5 by
readers.
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When Rabbit Howls
When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase Synopsis To escape the horror of violent abuse, the two-year-old child "went to sleep" and created the inner world of "the Troops, " the 92 voices that shielded her from pain, but that she didn't know existed until adulthood. This is a journey through the fragmented world of the multiple personality--told by the
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The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know
Features: After covering medication and diagnosis of bipolar disorder, the author breaks down self-management into four steps: 1) accepting the diagnosis, 2) becoming an expert on one's moods, 3) educating family and friends, and 4) enlisting support. Recognizing how misunderstood the illness is and how much more resistance to treatment occurs, this book attempts to address both of these issues. I liked the proposed contracts and forms suggested as extra tools and the book's organization.
Purpose: In addition to medication and therapy, the author proposes that self-management is an important tool that can be used by the patient and the family to help recognize the symptoms and help prevent more severe episodes. Any attempt to involve the patient and family in care is a worthy one. This book accomplishes its objectives with this easy-to-read manual.
Rated 5 Stars out of 5 by it's readers.
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When Someone You Love Is Depressed: How to Help Your Loved One without Losing Yourself
When Someone You Love is Depressed: How to Help Your Loved One Without Losing Yourself. By Laura Epstein Rosen, PhD, and Xavier Francisco
Amador, PhD. Through compelling real-life stories and step-by-step advice.262 pages. Hardcover, Pub Free Press.
Breaking the Chain of Low Self-Esteem
Finally a book that fully illuminates the experience of low self-esteem (LSE): the
fear and the anxiety, the self-doubts and self-criticism, the discouragement, anger and
depression, the self-defeating behaviors, and the insecurity in relationships and
careers. If you have low self-esteem, or realize a friend, family member or spouse does, this book is about you and for you-whether you are
male or female. Dr. Sorensen directly addresses the self-esteem issues of her clients and this book shows her deep understanding of what LSE really is.
- As you read this fascinating book, you will realize that you are not alone-that others share similar struggles; you will also receive
information and direction about how to change this problem--how to
overcome the effects of LSE that may presently be impeding your personal growth process and causing you unhappiness.
This book includes: A self-assessment questionnaire at the end of Chapter One,
Exercises at the end of each chapter, Comparisons between healthy and unhealthy self-esteem,
Tips for Recovery. Reading it will: challenge you to overcome your
fears, motivate you to alter self-defeating behaviors, teach you to value yourself,
inspire you to change your thinking, and enable you to make better choices in relationships and in other areas of your life.
With the insights contained here you may be able to save your present, ailing relationship or gain the awareness that it's not right for you.
Low self-esteem is a complex problem and difficult, though not impossible, to overcome. The author, a psychologist with over 2 decades of helping clients with this issue, strongly emphasizes that a
thorough understanding of how LSE develops and impacts one's life is necessary to make
lasting changes. Having seen hundreds of people do so in her practice, she
KNOWS that it is possible to alter one's LSE and to achieve peace and contentment
in life. This book has extremely high reviews by virtually ever reader who
reviewed it and great reviews from the critics too, (and a lot of both are
offered!).
Raged 5 stars out of 5 starts by those who have read this book. Highly
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Wasted is exactly what a book about eating disorders should be: frightening. With Hornbachers
gripping prose, Wasted has the potential to do for eating disorders what Go Ask Alice did for drug abuse: scare young readers away from killing themselves.
Based on research and her own battle with anorexia and bulimia, which left her with
permanent physical ailments and nearly killed her, Hornbacher's book explores the mysterious and ruthless realm of
self-starvation, which has its grip firmly around the minds and bodies of adolescents all across this country. Hornbacher became
bulimic at the age of 9, anorexic at 15, and went back and forth between the two until she was 20. In 1993, when she weighed 52 pounds, doctors predicted she had a week to live.
Hornbacher's story is of a journey to self-destruction and back again, raw enough to make even the
most jaded readers flinch and honest enough to make the most cynical pause
forethought. But while recounting her own pain, flaws, and failures, Hornbacher successfully avoids the traps of self-pity and reachiness.
Wasted is a book that can save lives. Rated 4 1/2 stars out of 5 by
readers, (who have powerful and telling reviews, as do the critics)
The Secret Language of Eating Disorders: How You Can Understand and Work to Cure Anorexia and
Bulimia By Peggy Claude-Pierre. This electrifying book, whose author attracted worldwide attention when her theories were featured on "20/20," "Pamela Wallin Live," and
"Oprah," exposes the inner logic of eating disorders and outlines a
radical new approach to their successful, permanent treatment. Powerful, candid and bracing in its common sense, The Secret Language of Eating Disorders offers
hope to the families of the afflicted. The Secret Language of Eating
Disorders was written by the founder of the world-renowned eating disorders program at the Montreaux Clinic in Victoria,
Canada...and reveals the author's ground-breaking theories on the ultimate cure for anorexia and bulimia."
Reviewed and rated 5 stars out of 5 by it's readers
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How to Cook Your Daughter
By Jessica Hendra, Blake Morrison.
How does a little girl find her way in a world where nothing is sacred? In 2004, Tony Hendra's memoir Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The book detailed his life as a comedian who helped launch the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase, wrote for and edited The National Lampoon, and performed in such cult classics as This Is Spinal Tap, even as he overindulged in alcohol and drugs. But there was a glaring omission in his supposed tell-all confessional: the
sexual abuse of his daughter Jessica. -
After more than thirty years of silence, Jessica faced a harrowing choice. In this
powerful book, she reveals how she came to the decision to publicly confront her father,
sacrificing any hope of reconciling with him and setting into motion a New York Times investigation that shocked the literary world when it broke the story of
abuse. But Jessica's account is neither a minor footnote nor an angry response to her dad's bestseller. How to Cook Your Daughter -- titled after a satirical piece her father wrote only a few months before the abuse began -- is an unflinching and unsentimental look at
a childhood that never was, set in a time and place straight from the pages of the outrageous magazine that her father helped to create. --
Against the backdrop of the 1970s New York comedy scene, the memoir traces Jessica's journey from a
lost and abused child to a young woman struggling with bulimia and anorexia to the mother of two who becomes convinced that challenging her father is the only way to reclaim a life that never seemed her own. One
Reviewer writes; "I found a bookstore that had put this out early and I devoured it -- no pun intended -- in a single night. I had read
Jessica Hendra's father's book, Father Joe, and subsequently about her allegations that he had molested her as a
child. Anyone who has read Father Joe knows that it was Tony Hendra's 'confessional.' Anyone who reads How to Cook Your Daughter knows that he didn't end up confessing much. In this book, Jessica lays out a childhood that is
both amusing, troubling and shocking. Don't be fooled into believing that this is just a book about being abused as a child. Anyone intrigued by the comedy scene of the 1970s will be fascinated by Jessica Hendra's recounting. The way the book is written turns a story I knew a lot about into a virtual cliffhanger, and in the end, the book
packs more power than even Father Joe. As I looked at the two, I asked myself which one made me think harder. The answer:
this one."
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Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks ...guide offering help to those who suffer from panic anxiety...explains how panic attacks occur and offers a five-step strategy for controlling those attacks." by R. Reid Wilson, PhD. published by Harper and Row Publishing. This 288 page paper back presents an effective self-help program that the sufferer can use in overcoming panic and coping with anxiety. The book has a 'Survivor's Guide' which can be used to plan responses to the first signs of a panic attack.
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The Magic Daughter: A Memoir of Living with Multiple Personality Disorder
by
Jane Phillips Synopsis As moving and inspiring as Nobody, Nowhere and Girl,
Interrupted, this unique and intensely personal memoir describes how Phillips
has learned to live with a fragmented self, and investigates the compelling
human side of a disorder which has long fascinated psychiatrists and readers
alike.
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Call Me Anna: The Autobiography The Autobiography of Patty Duke. Patty Duke and Kenneth Turan. Synopsis Call Me Anna is an American success story that grew out of a bizarre and desperate struggle for survival. A harrowing, ultimately triumphant story told by Patty Duke herself--wife, mother, political activist, President of The Screen Actors Guild, and at last, a happy, fulfilled woman whose miracle is her own life. 311 pages. 1987
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Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder
Bipolar disorder -- manic depression -- was once thought to be rare in children. Now researchers are discovering that not only can
bipolar disorder begin very early in life, but also that it is much more common than ever imagined. Yet the illness is
often misdiagnosed or overlooked. Why? Bipolar disorder manifests itself differently in children than in adults, and in children there is an overlap of symptoms with other childhood psychiatric disorders. As a result, these kids may be given any number of
psychiatric labels: "ADHD," "Depressed," "Oppositional Defiant Disorder," "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder," or "Separation Anxiety Disorder."
Too often they are treated with stimulants or antidepressants--medications that can actually worsen the bipolar condition.
The Bipolar Child is rich with the voices of parents, siblings, and the children themselves, opening up the long-closed world of the families struggling with this condition. Already proven, in its original edition, to be an invaluable
resource for parents whose children suffer from mood disorders, as well as
the professionals who treat and educate them, this book will prove to have major public health significance.
Rated 5 Stars out of 5 by it's readers.
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Survival Strategies for Parenting Children with Bipolar Disorder
By George t. Lynn - Survival Strategies for Parenting Children with Bipolar
Disorder tackles the most difficult decisions parents can face, including
whether to involve police or consider hospitalization if their children are a danger
to themselves and their families. At the same time, it emphasizes the
positive qualities these children often have and illustrates how their
gifts and abilities can build their self-esteem and help them function
better in society. However severe the child's symptoms, George Lynn's book will
provide guidance, support and inspiration for parents and care as well
as being a useful resource for professionals working with the families
who suffer as a result of this disorder.
Rated 5 Stars out of 5 by it's readers.
Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
A harrowing story of breakdowns, suicide attempts, drug therapy, and an eventual journey back to living, this poignant & often hilarious book gives voice to the high incidence of depression among America's youth. A collective cry for help from a generation who have come of age entrenched in the culture of divorce, economic instability, and AIDS, here is the intensely personal story of a young girl full of promise, whose mood swings have risen & fallen like the lines of a sad ballad.
"Painful, poignant, and ultimately triumphant, Prozac Nation is Elizabeth Wurtzel's catharsis--a cry of rage at the chronic depression which has dominated most of her young life. "A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression."--The New York Times.
Rated 4 1/2 stars out of a possible 5 stars by readers. Powerful reviews from
readers and critics.
Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder
Julie A. Fast, John D. Preston. When a person loves someone with bipolar disorder, life can be very stressful. From medication troubles to a partner’s mood swings the demands on a partner can be intense. “Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder” takes a unique and practical approach to these issues.
Written by an author who has bipolar disorder (and who lived with a partner who also has bipolar disorder) and a coauthor with over ten books on the topic of mental illness, the book offers specific, practical and realistic tips on how a couple can work together as a team to create a treatment plan that teaches them to live with the illness while still maintaining a loving and joyful relationship.
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Children 11 to
14/15 - Grades 5 thru 8
Illustrated Mum
By Jacqueline Wilson. Covered from head to toe with one-of-a-kind tattoos, Marigold is the brightest, most beautiful mother in the world. At least, that's what Dolphin thinks—she just wishes Marigold wouldn't stay out quite so late or have mood spells every now and again. Dolphin's older sister, Star, loves Marigold too, but she's tired of looking after her. So when Star's dad shows up out of the blue and offers to let the girls stay with him, Star jumps at the opportunity. But Dolphin can't bear to leave Marigold alone. Now it's just the two of them, and Dolphin is about to be in over her head. . . .
Gr 5-8 A searing portrait of a woman's mental illness and its effects on her children is told by her youngest daughter, 10-year-old Dolphin. High school student Star is
a practical, angry teen. Their mother, Marigold, is covered in tattoos and compulsively gets new ones whenever she gets upset, which happens more and more frequently. The family is constantly on the brink of being homeless and the girls essentially have to take care of themselves and their mother. Marigold is obsessed with Star's father, whom she hasn't seen in years and who doesn't even know that he has a daughter. She finds Micky at a concert and is convinced that they will now reunite. Star goes to stay with him because she can't handle Marigold any longer, leaving Dolphin with a mother who is less and less stable. After a complete breakdown, she is put in a
psychiatric ward. The author doesn't shy away from the difficulties, but there's
humor here, too. (Fiction. 11-14)
Glad Monster, Sad Monster: A Book About Feelings
Ed E. Emberley, Anne Miranda. A book about teaching feelings children - a children's feelings book! Monsters of different colors explain what makes them
feel glad, sad, loving, worried, silly, and angry. Fold-out masks encourage readers to
talk about their feelings. This joy-filled and useful book enables children and adults to discuss feelings in an easy-going and
non threatening way. Each spread features a friendly monster that talks about a particular
feeling, for example, yellow monsters play ball and open birthday presents
in the name of happiness and pink monsters cut out valentines and bake cookies
to express love etc., Each emotion comes with a gatefold page which reveals
a big mask for the child of the emotion covered in that section. The eyes
and nose can be punched out so children can hold those up and
"wear" the various masks. A full color, absolutely delightful book
in which the author focuses on the emotions of the young child, effortlessness
and fun. The storyline will give teachers and parents the opportunity to
introduce emotions to children in their pre-kindergarten years-the time when the children are still learning how to share,
what to do when angry, and how to express joy. Reviewed and
rated 4 1/2 stars out of 5 stars by it's readers..
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by Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D. What is crucial to a happy
successful life is what we say to ourselves when we experience failures and
disappointments. How we explain our setbacks to ourselves can make the
difference between overcoming defeat and succumbing to it, and here Seligman
documents the power of optimism in promoting achievement and improving health
From The Publisher: This groundbreaking book teaches readers how to choose
optimism--thereby gaining an essential new freedom to build a life of real
rewards and lasting fulfillment. 336 pp. 3,000 print.
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*********** When Rabbit Howls
by Truddi Chase Synopsis To escape the horror of violent
abuse, the two-year-old child "went to sleep" and created the inner
world of "the Troops, " the 92 voices that shielded her from pain, but
that she didn't know existed until adulthood. This is a journey through the
fragmented world of the multiple personality--told by the Troop
From Panic to Power
Proven Techniques to Calm Your Anxieties, Conquer Your Fears, and Put You in Control of Your Life
Lucinda Bassett. This program teaches people how to think differently about challenges and to respond in a less anxious way--enabling them to transform their nagging
doubts, fears, and anxieties into powerful positive energy and newfound freedom.
- Lucinda Bassett suffered from acute anxiety disorder from adolescence on. Shortly after meeting her husband in 1981, she became a full-blown
agoraphobic. Using her own healing process as a frame, and drawing on thousands of case
histories, she developed the internationally acclaimed "Attacking Anxiety" program - a combination of
techniques and skills that helps people suffering from anxiety and panic attacks to
overcome their fears and regain their independence. You can find a great
deal of reviews on this book, highly rated, the reviews are more than convincing
that this book is a 'must read' - powerful testimonies indeed! Critics
are also plentiful and recommend this book as well! The reviewers rated 5 stars
out of 5 by it's readers.
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The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict
William R. Leith. From his many years as a journalist, Leith knows that being fat is something people find more
difficult to talk about than nearly anything else. But in The Hungry Years he does precisely that. Leith uses his own pathological relationship with food as a starting point and
reveals himself, driven to the kitchen first thing in the morning to inhale slice after slice of buttered toast, wracked by a physical and emotional need that only food can satisfy. He travels through fast food-scented airports and coffee shops as he explores the all-encompassing power of advertising and the unattainable notions of
physical perfection that feed the multibillion dollar diet industry. --
Fat has been called a feminist issue: William Leith's unblinking look at the physical consequences and psychological pain of
being an overweight man charts fascinating new territory for everyone who has ever had a craving or counted a calorie. The Hungry Years is a story of food, fat, and
addiction that is both funny and heart wrenching. -- "The Hungry Years is a confessional,
satirical, wise, tragic, truly original book about addiction, food and what's really inside a fat man that's trying to get out. The Hungry Years defies categorization - it's part
memoir, part diet book, part comedy, and part sugar rush. It's the first real book about body image for men,
and it breaks taboos, breaks new ground, and breaks your heart. William Leith has finally fulfilled his always huge potential. I loved it" (cultural critic and author of White City Blue) - Tim Lott
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In this adaptation of McCormick's debut novel, Lewis (TV's Ellen) imbues her reading with the cynicism and pain of the book's troubled 15-year-old protagonist, Callie. Callie faces some difficult emotional hurdles as a "guest" at the residential treatment center where she has been sent because she cuts herself with sharp objects.
While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
Rated 4 1/2 stars out of 5 stars by readers.
Cutting by Steven Levenkron. Close to two million Americans and possibly more suffer from the psychological disorder of self-mutilation. The most prominent public admission was that of
Princess Diana. Written for the self-mutilator, parents, friends, and therapists, Levenkron unravels step by step the mindset of the self-mutilator, explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behaviors, and, most of all, describes how the self-mutilator can be helped. Through riveting case studies and conversations with his patients, the
profile of the self-mutilator emerges: someone who is typically fearful of people and abandonment, whose attachments are hostile or tenuous at best, who lacks interpersonal trust, and who often can't stay focused in a relationship of any depth. Cutting tells the reader
where to turn for help and offers important skills the self-mutilator must learn - what Levenkron calls the "Attachment-Dependency Trust Axis" - in order to overcome the affliction.
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Robert Sapolsky's acclaimed Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers combines
cutting-edge research with a healthy dose of good humor and practical
advice to explain how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental
afflictions, including depression, ulcers, colitis, heart disease, and more. When we
worry or experience stress, our body turns on the same physiological responses that an animal's body does, but we usually do not turn off the
stress-response in the same way -- through fighting, fleeing, or other quick actions. Over time, this
chronic activation of the stress-response can make us literally
sick. This thoroughly updated third edition, which features new chapters on
sleep disorders and addictions as well as new sections on gender differences, anxiety, weight gain, post-traumatic stress disorder, and stress management, is richer than ever with
insights into how the nervous system responds to stress and how those responses can be controlled.
EXCERPT From Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: "Regardless of how poorly we are getting along with a family member or how incensed we are about losing a parking spot, we rarely settle that sort of thing with a fistfight. Likewise, it is
a rare event when we have to stalk and personally wrestle down our dinner. Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of
stressful events purely in our heads. How many hippos worry about whether Social Security is going to last as long as they will, or even what they are going to say on a first date? Viewed from the perspective of the evolution of the human kingdom,
psychological stress is a recent invention. If someone has just signed the order to
hire a hated rival after months of plotting and maneuvering, her physiological
responses might be shockingly similar to those of a savanna baboon who has just lunged and slashed the face of a competitor. And if someone spends months on end twisting his innards in
anxiety, anger, and tension over some emotional problem, this might very well
lead to illness.
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His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina
From the day he was born,
Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By nineteen, he
was dead. This is Danielle Steel's powerful personal story of the son she lost
and the lessons she learned during his courageous battle against darkness.
Sharing tender, painful memories and Nick's remarkable journals, Steel brings
us a haunting duet between a singular young man and the mother who loved him -
and a harrowing portrait of a masked killer called manic depression, which
afflicts between two and three million Americans." "Nick rocketed
through life like a shooting star. Signs of his illness were subtle, often
paradoxical. He spoke in full sentences at age one. He was a brilliant,
charming child who never slept. And at first, even his mother explained away
his quicksilver moods. Nick always marched to a different drummer. His gift
for writing was extraordinary, his musical talent promised a golden future.
But by the time he entered junior high, Danielle Steel saw her beloved son
hurtling toward disaster and tried desperately to get Nick the help he needed
- the opening salvos of what would become a ferocious, pitched battle for his
life." "Even as he struggled, Nick's charisma and accomplishments
remained undimmed. He bared his soul in his journal with uncanny insight, in
searing prose, poetry, and song. When he was finally diagnosed and treated, it
bought time, but too little. In the end, perhaps nothing could have saved him
from the insidious disease that had shadowed him from his earliest years.
Rated 5 stars out of 5 stars by readers.
Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue
A much darker essay than Gray's early work. The late monologist's last work, strongly reliant on
tributes delivered by friends and family at two memorial services conducted after his 2004
suicide. "Unfinished" may be the key word to describe both Gray's life and this
book, which is very short. Gray committed suicide at age 62 by leaping off the Staten Island Ferry into frigid New York Harbor. In the title 40-page essay, Gray recounts with typical mordancy the accident and his subsequent hospitalizations in both Ireland and New York. The volume also includes a
10-page essay written on the tenth anniversary of his first meeting his wife, Kathy Russo.
Paying tribute at his memorial included his widow, his older brother, Rockwell Gray and fellow performers Eric
Bogosian, Laurie Anderson and Eric StoltzParticularly. Particularly touching are the recollections of Gray's teenaged stepdaughter Marissa, describing her struggle to live with the suicidal, broken man her father became after the car accident. Another comes from fellow author Roger Rosenblatt, who noted of Gray: "No one ever could be so sublimely miserable." The portrait of Gray that emerges is one of an adventurous, open-hearted, troubled soul who spent his life searching for "the perfect moment." This, he apparently never found.
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The Bipolar Workbook: Tools for Controlling Your Mood Swings
By Monica Ramirez Basco. Living with bipolar disorder is a lifelong challenge. Those who struggle with the illness have to learn effective ways to control their mood swings, avoid relapse, and get the most from medication-based treatments. This workbook delivers a hands-on resource that gives sufferers the edge they need. Based on proven cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques, the book offers a variety of tools that enable readers to recognize the early warning signs of an oncoming episode, develop plans for withstanding the seductive pull of manic episodes, and escape the paralysis of depression. Specific chapters address key challenges at various stages, from overcoming denial of the initial diagnosis to fine-tuning treatments and maintaining gains.
The table of contents includes, Test Your Knowledge of Bipolar Disorder, Charting Your Personal History, Overcoming the Big "D"
, Recognizing and Catching Your Thinking Errors, Controlling Emotional Thoughts,
Getting the Most out of Medication and others. A few of Monica
Ramirez Basco's previous books include, "Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Bipolar Disorder",
"Getting Your Life Back: The Complete Guide to Recovery from Depression",
"Never Good Enough: Freeing Yourself from the Chains of Perfectionism"
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Depression Workbook
2nd addition
By best-selling author, Mary Ellen Copeland. The Second Edition of the Depression Workbook.
Learn and practice the latest research-based self-help strategies to relieve depression
and address other mental health issues. A new chapter guides readers through developing your own plan for managing symptoms and staying well. This process, known as the
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), was developed by a group of people who experience depression, or manic depression
and/or have other mental health concerns and who now report that this plan helped them
relieve their symptoms and improve the quality of their lives. This edition is updated in all areas including new
medical and holistic perspectives and extensive lists of helpful resources
that will assist you in your journey to wellness. By letting you share more than a hundred case stories and empowering you with the most current
therapeutic strategies, The Depression Workbook, Second Edition will give you insight, energy, and hope.
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We Heard the Angels of Madness: A Family Guide to Coping with Manic Depression
Synopsis When 18-year-old Mark returned home from college, his family thought he was on drugs. In fact, he was suffering from manic depression. This is the intimate, inspiring story of how Mark's family coped with his illness and the
valuable information they gathered about manic depression: up-to-date, useful facts on drugs, doctors, therapy, insurance and other resources.256 pages.
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By Kathy Cronkite. Synopsis This best-selling compilation of interviews with dozens of celebrities
who have conquered
depression--including Joan Rivers, Kitty Dukakis, Mike Wallace, Rod Steiger, and
Jules Feiffer--takes a major step toward eradicating the stigma attached to the
disease, and "manages to dispel the myths surrounding depression without
ever seeming didactic" (Los Angeles Times). Journey from despair and
depression to understanding. 352 pages. Pub Doubleday.
Moodswing
Ronald R. Fieve, MD. Highly readable classic introduction to Bipolar
Disorder. Synopsis This expanded edition updates the research
and treatments of depression that have emerged in the last fifteen years. Fieve
sheds new light on specific mood disorders such as PMS, seasonal depression, and
has new chapters on substance abuse. Updated edition. 267 pages Rev, Bantam
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From Sad to Glad
By Nathan S. Kline, MD. Kline reviews depression
throughout history/drugs for treatment. From The Publisher: Do you feel
burned out, tense, anxious, frightened, irritable, turned off? You're not alone,
and you don't have to suffer anymore. Depression can be a chemical
imbalance -- you can treat it with drugs. Dr. Nathan Kline, a pioneer in the
biochemical treatment of depression. explains the remarkably simple and
successful approach that has led thousands to more joyful lives -- simply,
quickly, and without analysis. A classic book. 276 pages. Ballantine.
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An Unquiet Mind
by Kay Redfield Jamison With vivid prose and wit, she
takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness a
world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called
the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of
depression and, all too frequently, death.
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Feeling Good
By David D. Burns, MD, Intro by Aaron T. Beck, MD. This
book is about cognitive therapy and it's practical applications/of Beck's
method. 416 pages. New American Library. Synopsis The good news is that
anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other
"black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs. In FEELING
GOOD, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D. outlines the remarkable,
scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and
help you develop a positive outlook on life:
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Questions & Answers About Depression and Its Treatment
By Psychiatrist. Ivan
K. Goldberg, MD. For patients and families, provides clear explanations and
answers to questions about depressive illnesses. From Library Journal: Writing
for the estimated 12 million Americans who have battled or who are currently
facing depression, Goldberg (psychiatry, Columbia Univ.) answers the questions
that are most often asked by depressed patients and their families. In an
easy-to-understand question-and-answer format, he discusses the causes,
symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments of depression and other mood disorders.
Special considerations such as suicide, elderly and adolescent cases,
bereavement, and questions of law are also considered. Although the addition of
an index would have made this volume more accessible, it is nonetheless a
valuable resource for most general collections.-- Linda S. Greene, Chicago P.L
This book also includes self-evaluation139 pages. Pub., The Charles Press.
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A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness
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Bipolar Psychopharmacotherapy: Caring for the Patient
Bipolar disorder is often not recognized as an illness, and people may
suffer for years before it is properly diagnosed and treated. Like diabetes or heart disease,
bipolar disorder is a long-term illness that must be carefully managed throughout a person's life. Pharmacotherapy is central to the
acute treatment and long-term management of the disorder and as there are several classes of drugs, which are often prescribed concurrently,
treatment issues are complex.
This title examines major pharmacological treatments in the different phases of bipolar disorder. Chapters are devoted to commonly use pharmacological treatments with a critical review of the existing literature.
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