Mental Illness

Do you want to know what lucid dreams are and how to control them? So what is a lucid dream? According to studies, lucid dreams are any dream where you become aware that you are actually dreaming. Once you realize that you are in this state, your conscious can connect to the dream and allow you to do several things. Whether you want to fulfil a fantasy or explore your dream world, lucid dreaming allows just that.

What if finding her means losing himself? Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he could travel through time. When he was 10, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at 15, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he's actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have "superpowers".

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.

I wanted to write a book to uplift mentally ill people of the harshest variety, schizophrenic or schizoaffective like I have. I wanted to tell the story of my own life, like some people see me. I am not a pitiable sad case. I am a hero who’s gone on adventures. Sometimes I was unstable, but that is not the purpose of my story.

Being a nurse requires you to devote so much time to caring for others that you might forget to take care of yourself. However, no matter what you experience every day, it is important to protect your mental well-being because your job depends on it, and your health is just as precious as anyone else’s. Probably you are wondering…

Have insomnia and other sleep problems been holding you hostage? Do you feel like it's impossible to operate at your full strength during the day because of your issues sleeping through the night? You are not alone!

If you battle mental illness, love someone with mental illness, or treat individuals who battle mental illness, I'm Not Afraid of the Monsters is a raw, intimate, emotionally enlightening nonlinear portrait through my own personal journals, poetry, and essays of my life shedding light on life with the madness and monsters of mental illness.

A marriage with an imperfect love story goes tragically wrong one summer in a small college town in Virginia, and the husband is left picking up the pieces of pain and regret. How did it end in suicide instead of divorce? What he discovers six months later is both heartbreaking and astonishing.

Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime and is losing his “stoke.” The younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still idolize the Shark, but his sponsors are looking elsewhere. One night, while driving home from a bar after one too many, Joe accidentally kills a stranger near Waimea, a tragedy that sends his life out of control. As the repercussions of the accident spiral ever wider, Joe's devoted girlfriend, Olive, throws herself into uncovering the dead man’s identity and helping Joe find vitality and refuge in the waves again.

Overthinking in Relationships and Survivors of Alzheimer's: A Caregiver's Guide to Mental Health and Aging emerges as a beacon of light, offering a repository of understanding and strategies for those entrenched in the dual challenges of caregiving and personal mental health. This compassionate guide delves deep into the heart of Alzheimer’s caregiving, coupled with the pervasive challenge of overthinking in personal relationships.

No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76 people, including 20 children, who died in the fire; for its inspiration of the Oklahoma City bombing; and for the wave of anti-government militarism that followed. What we understand far less is what motivated the Davidians’ enigmatic leader, David Koresh.

From a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of stories. Three teenagers believe they are witches. A woman defaces a local billboard. A bored landlord tries to influence his son's best friend. A cul-de-sac WhatsApp group discusses eggs at length. A heavily pregnant woman finds a way to time travel and a girl discovers joy on a stolen bicycle. Each tale paints a life in miniature and offers an escape chute from the catastrophes of modern life.

Discover the life-changing insights of navigating a marriage with mental illness in Embracing the Unknown. This book offers a powerful and honest account of how to cope and strengthen your relationship when mental illness is in the mix. Through the raw and real stories, listeners will be empowered to embrace their journey and gain insight into the unknown.

There are an estimated 6.5 million people in the US who suffer from dementia—a statistic that is only anticipated to increase as time goes on. As their condition worsens, patients become increasingly unable to care for themselves and have to rely on someone else, usually a loved one, to look after them.

Based on decades of research, Chronotherapy shows you how to harness the power of light to reset your natural clock and boost your mood, be more alert, and get a good night's sleep. A good night's sleep can be hard to get. Sleep problems and depressed mood often go hand in hand, forming a frustrating cycle. Only now are we beginning to understand the way these problems are based in the working of the brain's inner clock, through the science of chronobiology - the study of circadian rhythms and their regulation by light and darkness.

It was the spring of 1989. I was 16 years old, a junior in high school and an honors student. I had what every teenager wants: a stable family, a nice home in the suburbs, a great group of friends, big plans for my future, and no reason to believe that any of that would ever change. Then came my mother's psychosis.

Journey Untold: Twisted Love is a candid and powerful memoir about recovering from mental health disorders. If you like unflinching personal stories, expert insight, and hope for a better future, you’ll adore Dr. Hall’s inspirational book.

The last place Lisa Eley expects to be is a despondent patient in a psychiatric hospital on suicide watch fighting for her life. As an African American single parent from northwest Baltimore, Lisa knows knock-down, drawn-out hardships and resilient comebacks very well. She rises above every land mine life sets, detonating each with her quiet will and unyielding determination to defeat every adversity in her path. Faith and fate lead her to a new job with a leading agency, a pivotal success leap she thinks. What happens next will have this mild-mannered, upstanding citizen and worshiping Christian plot murder.

In this groundbreaking new book, a Harvard-trained neurologist shows how you can attain lifelong mental fitness. Utilizing the latest breakthroughs in research, Dr. Jeff Victoroff has developed a definitive, life-changing plan that provides you with the powerful, scientifically based methods you need to protect your brain from aging and memory loss. Starting today, you too can save your brain.

The goal of this book is twofold: to educate the family member or caregiver about their loved one's disease and to equip the listener with identified strategies to assist them in helping their loved one navigate through their mental illness diagnosis successfully and to live a high-functioning life. Meet Linda Denke, PhD, who dialogues and walks alongside her listeners as they navigate the mental health system.