Mental Illness

Why do we dream? How can you sleep better? How do you control your dreams? Discover the theories and techniques to ensure a rich world of dreams every night. Decode your dreams – over 50 common dream scenarios are interpreted in detail. What do they mean – to you? Ever dream of flying? Winning the lottery? Flunking an exam? Understand what your mind is telling you when you’re asleep and you’ll unlock your true potential when you’re awake. Night Vision holds the answers.

Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking. One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an investigation into the strange science of sleep. In Dreamland, Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives.

When thirty-five-year-old Sonja Wasden is involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital by her husband and father, she is sure it is a mistake. Wife of a CEO, mother of three, living in a beautiful suburb, Sonja's life appears ideal. How did she get here? In this gripping and breathtaking narrative that makes the listener feel as though they are listening in on a private conversation, Sonja reveals her delusions and battles with mental illness.

Imagine finding a glimmer of good news in a diagnosis of Alzheimer's. And imagine how that would change the outlook of the five million Americans who suffer from Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, not to mention their families, loved ones, and caretakers. A neurologist who's been specializing in dementia and memory loss for more than 20 years, Dr. Gayatri Devi rewrites the story of Alzheimer's by defining it as a spectrum disorder - like autism, Alzheimer's is a disease that affects different people differently.

If we are to address the injustice of racism, we need to have the "race conversation." All too often, however, attempts at this conversation are met with silence, denial, anger, or hate. This is largely because the construct of race resides not only in our minds, but principally in the body. In order to have productive conversations about race and racism, a paradigm shift is needed—one which will empower us to remain present and embodied, rather than constricted with fear, regardless of our racial identities.

After a near fatal stroke in 1995, Robert McCrum has gained an intimate understanding of his own mortality. Twenty-two years on, his friends have joined him in experiencing Prospero's 'every third thought' of death as a dominating theme of life. McCrum asks: can we make peace with what Freud calls 'the necessity of dying'? Searching for answers leads him to brain surgeons, psychologists, cancer patients and writers for advice and wisdom.

When Robert Hine's daughter, Elene, first showed signs of unhappiness as a little girl, no one dreamed she would grow up to have a serious personality disorder. As an early baby boomer, Elene reached adolescence and young womanhood in the midst of the counterculture years. Her father, a respected professor of American history at the University of California, shares the story of his family's struggle to keep Elene on track and functional, to see her through her troubles with delusions and medication, and eventually to help her raise her own children.

When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim?

E. Fuller Torrey's audiobook provides an inside perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program. On staff at the National Institute of Mental Health when the program was being developed and implemented, Torrey draws on his own first-hand account of the creation and launch of the program, extensive research, one-on-one interviews with people involved, and recently unearthed audiotapes of interviews with major figures involved in the legislation. As such, this book provides historical material previously unavailable to the public.

"What was the likelihood my adopted daughter would have my father's hazel eyes and my mother's mental illness?" In this fiercely candid memoir, Dr. Pruchno, a scientist widely acclaimed for her research on mental illness and families, shows how mental illness threatened to destroy her own family. Not once, but twice.

Are you tired of reliving traumatic experiences and struggling with the burden of PTSD? Does sleep evade you as nightmares and flashbacks haunt your nights? It's time to take back control of your life and find healing with the transformative audio book, Stop PTSD Now: Sleep Hypnosis Meditation.

With aspirations of being a successful lawyer, Jonathan embarks on a path to make his dreams come true, but is ultimately, unable to do so due to his schizoaffective disorder. In this candid and unflinching memoir, Jonathan reveals his story in all its rawness: the ups, the downs, the wins, the losses, the highs and the darkest of lows.

Mеntаl diѕоrdеr iѕ аlѕо cаllеd а mеntаl illnеѕѕ оr pѕychiаtric diѕоrdеr. Yоur mеntаl hеаlth will hаvе аn impаct оn yоur phyѕicаl wеll-bеing аѕ wеll. Hеncе, yоu ѕhоuld bе аblе tо dеаl with ѕtrеѕѕ аnd еmоtiоn in thе right wаy ѕо thаt it will nоt аffеct yоur hеаlth. Thеrе аrе mеdicаtiоnѕ аnd tipѕ which cаn bе fоllоwеd аt hоmе that will help with rеductiоn in mеntаl illnеѕѕ. Ѕоmе mеntаl cоnditiоnѕ cаnnоt bе curеd. Hоwеvеr, thеy cаn bе mаnаgеd by undеrgоing trеаtmеnt.

Es ist kein Zufall, dass wir krank werden. Krankheit ist eine Form der Sprache unserer Seele. Krankheit zeigt uns den Weg zu verdrängten Gefühlen und unbewussten Mustern. Das Buch eröffnet ihnen neue Einsichten und Horizonte, ihre Krankheiten zu verstehen und zu deuten.

Let's face it, especially these days, there's a lot going on and things are constantly coming at us to the point where overload sets in and mentally our brain is just not handling it. If that describes you, there's something you can do about it starting now. Get your hands on Train Your Brain Mental Strength: How to Train Your Brain for Mental Toughness & 7 Core Lessons to Achieve Peak Mental Performance! You can't go wrong with this audiobook because it's written to improve your cognitive skills and throughout the process your brain will not be overworked.

If you want to learn how to live and deal with bipolar disorder, then get How to Live with Bipolar Disorder, written by a person with real-life experience in this topic. This is a how to guide on how to live with bipolar disorder. It's about bipolar disorder or manic depressive illness. The methods expressed in this how to deal with bipolar guide, have been proven to work. I believe that they would work for anyone who has the initiative to use and develop them.

In this book, you'll learn all about the normal stages of human sleep, how sleep patterns change with advancing age, how to determine the root causes of your sleeping difficulties, and how to make simple behavior changes that can go a long way to eliminate poor sleep habits that you may have fallen into, thereby enabling you to sleep well again like you did in the past.

It is at your work, at your home, in your products, and even in your food. Toxic substances surround us. Whether it be heavy metals or chemicals, it is bound to get into your body and cause destruction. The majority of the human population already has at least 700 different artificially made chemicals in their bodies. In this audiobook, Depression, Cancer, Autism, and the Metal in Your Mouth, we discuss how our polluted environment is impacting our health.

Stell Dir vor, Dein Alltag wird plötzlich von überwältigenden Gefühlen und unkontrollierbaren Gedanken bestimmt – Emotionen, die Dein Leben auf den Kopf stellen und Dich in einen Strudel aus Angst und Verzweiflung ziehen. In „Psychologie im Alltag – Die Top-10 der psychischen Erkrankungen leicht erklärt“ wirst Du in die tiefe, oft verborgene Welt der psychischen Störungen geführt. Dieses Hörbuch nimmt Dich mit auf eine Reise durch die seelischen Landschaften von Depressionen, Zwangsstörungen, Panikattacken und anderen Herausforderungen, die Millionen von Menschen täglich begegnen.

Todo mundo precisa de oito horas diárias de sono? Por que comer após o pôr do sol pode afetar nosso peso? As pesquisas do neurocientista Russell Foster sobre o relógio biológico nos orientam para os horários ideais de dormir, comer, praticar exercícios, estudar e trabalhar. Saiba como viver em harmonia com o seu.