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Healthy, Wealthy and Wise July 2019
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Mental Wellness - New at WPL
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Mental health emergencies : a first-responder's guide to recognizing and handling mental health crises
by Nick Benas
Ready reference to mental and emotional health crises and concerns, providing overviews and expert guidance on more serious problems. Ideal for first-responders, teachers, counselors, and human resource professionals. Developed from best-practices of psychiatry, psychology and mental health counseling, Mental Health Emergencies is a guide to providing much-needed care and support to the people in distress who most need help including self-injury, eating disorders, substance abuse, psychosis, and suicidal thoughts. Mental Health Emergencies will help you provide exactly the right kind of support--where and when it's needed most.
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The collected schizophrenias : essays
by Esmé Weijun Wang
The award-wining author of The Border of Paradise presents a collection of evocative essays on mental illness that build on her own experiences with schizoaffective disorder while examining the vulnerabilities of institutionalization, PTSD and Lyme disease.
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Hello! I Want to Die, Please Fix Me : Depression in the First Person
by Paperny, Anna Mehler
Award-winning journalist Anna Mehler Paperny's stunning memoir chronicles with courageous honesty and uncommon eloquence her firsthand experience of depression and her intrepid quest to explore what we know and don't know about this disease that afflicts almost a fifth of the population--providing an invaluable guide to a system struggling to provide solutions and too often failing. As fascinating as it is heartrending, as outrageously funny as it is serious, it is a must-read for anyone touched by depression--and that's pretty much everybody. Depression is a havoc-wreaking illness that masquerades as personal failing, hijacks your life and becomes an obsession.
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Is Fred in the Refrigerator? : Taming OCD and Reclaiming My Life
by Nicely, Shala
"A masterfully written memoir-meets-educational-meets-inspirational tale that I couldn't put down." Ashley Smith, PhD, coauthor of Childhood Anxiety Disorders A gripping memoir that gives voice to the invisible, life-destroying power of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and how one woman stood up to fear, embraced the unknown, and reclaimed her life.
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Mad Like Me : Travels in Bipolar Country
by Hammond, Merryl
Have you ever wondered what it's like to live with bipolar disorder? Ever agonized about whether your own or a loved one's mood swings are normal or not? This is the book for you! Mad Like Me: Travels in Bipolar Country takes you on a wild, no-holds-barred gallop through one health professional's battles with bipolar disorder. In 2008, Hammond was struck with bipolar disorder at age 51. Just imagine: almost overnight, she flipped from being a researcher and public health consultant to a locked-ward patient. She shares everything she learned along the way about how to reclaim your own mental health and maintain stability, and does so in an accessible, readable, often humorous way.
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxiety, Addiction and Depression : Everything You Need to Know about Treating Depression, Social Anxiety, Addictions, Ocd, Phobias, Negative Thinking
by Joyce, William E.
At least one in five adults in the US experiences some form of mental illness every year-a clear indication that the number of Americans who are battling mental illnesses is on an upward trajectory. This reality has called upon various methods of treatment, but none seems as effective as cognitive behavioral therapy. CBT is a method of treatment that embraces the best aspects of both talk therapy and behavioral therapy. It has been exceedingly successful because it offers a lot of flexibility and the results are long-lasting-a stark contrast to most other forms of treatments such as medication, which can be rigid, expensive, and not to mention, cyclical.
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8 keys to mental health through exercise
by Christina G. Hibbert
Citing studies that link routine exercise to the alleviation of stress and anxiety, a guide by a clinical psychologist and expert on women's mental health shares step-by-step strategies for sticking to fitness goals and maintaining an exercise program specifically designed to bolster mental health.
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The family guide to mental health care
by Lloyd I. Sederer
This resource for those dealing with a family member's mental illness provides information on medications, medical privacy laws, depression, anxiety, bipolar illness and eating disorders and includes a checklist of questions to ask at a doctor's visit.
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On edge : a journey through anxiety
by Andrea Petersen
A compassionate account of living with anxiety, complemented by deep reportage on the science of anxiety disorders, traces the author's personal journey of trying to understand and manage her own case from neuroscientific, spiritual and genetic perspectives.
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This close to happy : a reckoning with depression
by Daphne Merkin
A former New Yorker staff writer and award-winning author of Dreaming of Hitler draws on her journalistic essays on depression to trace her lifelong battle with the disease, marked by her wealthy but inconsistent family and her numerous pursuits in therapy and hospitalization.
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Depression the Comedy : A Tale of Perseverance
by Jessica Holmes
"For readers of Jenny Lawson and Mindy Kaling comes this refreshingly quirky tale of perseverance that brings adorkable levity to a dark topic. Comedians live by the mantra tragedy + time = comedy--hence Jessica Holmes's hilarious new memoir about depression, "the cold sore of the mind." She takes us on her journey--sometimes laugh-out-loud, sometimes cringe-worthy--from successful performer to someone who was basically living the life of a house cat.
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Facts and fictions in mental health
by Hal Arkowitz
Written in a lively and entertaining style, Facts and Fictions in Mental Health examines common conceptions and misconceptions surrounding mental health and its treatment. Each chapter focuses on a misconception and is followed by a discussion of related findings from scientific research.
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My lovely wife in the psych ward : a memoir
by Mark Lukach
A memoir of a young marriage that is defined by mental illness describes how the author's wife suffered mysterious psychotic breaks on either side of having a child, examining how the challenges of mental illness raise profound questions about love and responsibility.
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