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Mental Health Month March 2023
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Rest is resistance : a manifesto
by Tricia Hersey
Rooted in spiritual energy and centered in black liberation, womanism and Afrofuturism, the founder of The Nap Ministry sheds new light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted and a divine human right. 65,000 first printing.
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Permission to come home : reclaiming mental health as Asian Americans
by Jenny T. Wang
Weaving her own personal narrative as a Taiwanese American and insights as a clinician with evidence-based tools, a clinical psychologist offers readers permission to embrace their mental and emotional self-care while understanding and honoring the richness of their heritage. 50,000 first printing.
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Strangers to ourselves : unsettled minds and the stories that make us
by Rachel Aviv
Raising fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress, the author draws on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs to write about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. 100,000 first printing.
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The myth of normal : trauma, illness & healing in a toxic culture
by Gabor Maté
"In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really "normal" when it comes to health?"
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Healing : our path from mental illness to mental health
by Thomas R. Insel
"A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America's broken mental health care system. As director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel was giving a presentation when the father of a boy with schizophrenia yelled from the back of the room, "Our house is on fire and you're telling me about the chemistry of the paint! What are you doing to put out the fire?" Dr. Insel knew in his heart that the answer was not nearly enough. The gargantuan American mental health industry was not healing millions who were desperately in need. He left his position atop the mental health research world to investigate all that was broken-and what a better path to mental health might look like. In the United States, we have treatments that work, but our system fails at every stage to deliver care well. Even before COVID, mental illness was claiming a life every eleven minutes by suicide. Quality of care varies widely, and much of the field lacks accountability. We focus on drug therapies for symptom reduction rather than on plans for long-term recovery. Care is often unaffordable and unavailable, particularly for those who need it most and are homeless or incarcerated. Where was the justice for the millions of Americans suffering from mental illness? Who was helping their families? But Dr. Insel also found that we do have approaches that work, both in the U.S. and globally. Mental illnesses are medical problems, but he discovers that the cures for the crisis are not just medical, but social. This path to healing, built upon what he calls the three Ps (people, place, and purpose), is more straightforward than we might imagine. Dr. Insel offers a comprehensive plan for our failing system and for families trying to discern the way forward. The fruit of a lifetime of expertise and a global quest for answers, Healing is a hopeful, actionable account and achievable vision for us all in this time of mental health crisis"
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How to calm your mind : finding presence and productivity in anxious times
by Chris Bailey
"When Chris Bailey, productivity expert, discovered that he had become stressed and burnt out because he was pushing himself too hard, he realized that he had no right to be giving advice on productivity without learning when and how to rein things in and take a break. Productivity advice works--and we need it now more than ever--but it's just as important that we also develop our capacity for calm. By finding calm and overcoming anxiety, we don't just feel more comfortable in our own skin, we invest in the missing piece that leads our efforts to become sustainable over time. We build a deeper, more expansive reservoir of energy to draw from throughout the day, and have greater mental resources at our disposal to not only do good work, but to also live agood life. Among the topics How to Calm Your Mind covers are how analog and digital worlds affect calm and anxiety in different ways; how our desire for dopamine, a neurotransmitter in our brain that leads us to feel overstimulated, breeds anxiety, dissatisfaction, and needless stress, but can be countered by other neurochemicals; how hidden sources of stress can be tamed by a "stimulation fast"; and how "busyness" is as much a state of mind as it is an actual state of life. The pursuit of calm ultimately leads us to become more engaged, focused, and deliberate--while making us more productive and satisfied with our lives overall. In an anxious world, achieving calm is the best life hack around"
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The anatomy of anxiety : understanding and overcoming the body's fear response
by Ellen Vora
Backed by the latest scientific research and her clinical work, an acclaimed functional medicine psychiatrist offers a fresh, much-needed look at mental health, offering actionable strategies for tuning into anxiety and allowing it to protect and guide us to create a more joyful and fulfilled life. 60,000 first printing.
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My mess is a bit of a life : adventures in anxiety
by Georgia Pritchett
The multi-award-winning comedy and drama writer takes readers on a rollercoaster ride through her anxiety-ridden life, in this offbeat, painfully honest and hilarious memoir that reveals a talented, vulnerable and strong woman in all her wisecracking weirdness. 50,000 first printing.
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