Mental Health Medicine

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act was passed in 2008, and requires covered employers provide health plans to cover mental health services and substance abuse on the same basis as physical conditions.

After years of researching practical solutions to the physical and mental problems and injuries he sustained during his 28 years of military service, author Christopher W. Pierce shares these solutions in Self-Health Andragogy: Self-Directed Learning Approach to Mental and Physical Self-Care.

The substance of this little book has been given in the form of a lecture. It is now offered to a wider audience in the hope that it may prove useful in helping some to know the power of a larger life.

You're about to find out that increased relaxation doesn't lead just to better mental and physical health but to other tangible forms of prosperity. Feeling stressed out and stuck in the same aggravating rut over and over again? Then this powerfully unconventional advice is for you.

Over the last decade, Kevin Dedner has been on a mission to explore this powerful and troubling question, shining an unconventional spotlight on the impact of racism on mental health. In his debut book, The Joy of the Disinherited, Dedner articulates his call for urgent change: We must knock down the invisible barriers that make it harder for Black people to get the mental health care they need and deserve.

What if you could activate or improve your body’s natural healing thanks to a few simple physical exercises? Just imagine those exercises reducing your body’s inflammation, anxiety, or chronic illness. How could it be possible? Simply thanks to the vagus nerve! If you never heard about vagus nerves, which are usually referred to in the singular, they are the longest and maybe the most important autonomic nerves in human body. Approximately the 80 percent of its nerve fibers drive information from the body to the brain.

We live in an age of diagnosis. The advance of sophisticated genetic sequencing techniques means that we may all soon be screened for potential abnormalities, and the internet provides a vast array of information that helps us speculate about our symptoms. When we are suffering, it feels natural to seek a diagnosis. But is diagnosis an unqualified good thing? Could it sometimes even make us worse instead of better? Through the moving stories, neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan explores the complex world of modern diagnosis, comparing the impact of a medical label to the pain of not knowing.

Anyone who has seen a child recover from a wound or a broken bone knows that kids are made to heal. Their bodies are more resilient, more adaptive, and far more able to withstand acute stress than adults'. In this inspiring memoir, Dr. Kurt Newman draws from his long experience as a pediatric surgeon working at one of our nation's top children's hospitals to make the case that children are more than miniature adults.

As an occupational therapist with a specialty in sensory integration, Allie Ticktin has seen an increase in cases of children who struggle to sit in circle time or at their desk upright and who are delayed in walking, talking, and playing by themselves and with their peers. With increasing time pressures for both kids and parents, children are spending more time in front of screens and less time exploring and interacting with their environment. The good news is that boosting your child’s sensory development doesn’t take enormous amounts of time or supplies or any special skills.

By the end of this book, you should have the necessary mental tools for becoming assertive, rather than aggressive, and calm when necessary. If you’re tired of being controlled by this unpredictable emotion, take matters into your own hands and listen to this useful guide.

Mental Agility is not a common “think smarter” book. No, it starts from biological bases of analytical thinking and how we can reprogram ourselves for deep insight. This book provides real, actionable tool after tool, because smart thinking is all about HOW and not why or what. The bottom line is that you’ll be able to apply this book’s thinking models immediately, until they become habit.

As humans, we have continued to rely on so many external factors for peace and fulfillment, in a time of increasing stress, conflicts, and rapidly failing mental health. Even though these things seem to be temporary, we keep holding on to them as long as they put us at ease at the moment. Things like exotic parks and other luxurious facilities and establishments. That is okay, but the question is, why do things continue to get worse, instead of improving for the better?

For the past few years, mindfulness has begun to transform the American workplace. Many of our largest companies, such as General Mills, Ford, Target, and Google, have built extensive programs to foster mindful practices among their workers. Mindful Work is the first audiobook to explain how all sorts of businesses and any kind of worker can benefit from meditation, yoga, and other mindful techniques.

Wellness has been defined in broad strokes for centuries - until now. This book clarifies a holistic perspective of what it means to be healthy while revealing common roadblocks to resilience and the resources needed to resist each one. Using personal stories and a diverse array of peer-reviewed behavioral, psychological, and organizational research, the authors present an evidence-based model for building physical, psychological, cognitive, emotional, financial, spiritual, social, and professional capital.

We all slip into some form of subtle addiction from time to time. It’s only human to desire comfort. But what happens when we start abusing our body to derive pleasure? Recent studies have shown that 1 in every 20 adults is a victim of food addiction. Perhaps you’ve tried a few fasting or dieting methods yourself. But most of them are hard to sustain and make you slip back and feel guilty. It’s time to put an end to this vicious cycle. This edition of the audiobook brought to you by the Self-Help-Guide, includes the best of various programs, distilled into one carefully-designed plan.

In this book, we will discuss emotional balance, mindfulness, and the importance of emotional stability. Learn techniques on how to better manage your emotions, and find the sources of your pain so that you can start leading a happy and fulfilling life - the life you deserve.

Low mood and depression are endemic, and on the increase, and the recession has further fuelled the need for the practical, down-to-earth advice provided in The Feel Good Factor. Written and adapted for audio by leading nutrition expert and mental-health specialist Patrick Holford, it reveals highly effective methods to make a difference to how you feel - without the need for medical drugs.

Sustainable happiness can only be found in the present moment. This can be easily observed in nature as well. Have you ever seen a cat dwelling in the past or the future? Similarly, you also have everything you need to become a full-fledged being and live life with harmony. In this audiobook, mindfulness coach Dharma Hazari will teach you how to harness this natural power and readjust your alignment with the present.

For centuries, medicine has made reckless use of one of earth's most toxic substances: mercury - and the consequences, often invisible or ignored, continue to be tragic. Today, global emissions of mercury as well as other toxicants, make us all more vulnerable to its effects. From the worst cases of syphilis to Sigmund Freud's first cases of hysteria, from baffling new disorders in 19th century Britain to the modern scourge of autism, The Age of Autism traces the long overlooked history of mercury poisoning.

The first and last book you will need about intermittent fasting and veganism. Take an exclusive look at what made me choose both methods in my journey to lose four stones and how you can use the same strategy to achieve your own weight loss goals. All of this information is explained and backed up by scientific research! This book provides you with everything you need to know before jumping on the fasting trend and why you will only have to gain by choosing to go vegan!