Psychology Mental Illness

Be empowered for a healthier, happier you with a personal physician at your side. Living with a chronic illness can feel like a constant battle. This audiobook is designed to equip you with the tools you need to overcome the symptoms of pain, fatigue, shortness of breath, anxiety, and stress while effectively managing and reversing the diseases that cause them. By encouraging you to create personal healthy living goals and then providing valuable tools to help you achieve them, this guide will give you the confidence you need to take control of your health.

This book critically evaluates the popular notion that today’s society is suffering from "sleep debt", or what Horne calls "societal insomnia" - an apparent chronic loss of sleep, which can lead to obesity and related physical and mental disorders including heart disease. It presents evidence which suggests that sleep debt has not in fact worsened to any marked extent over the last hundred or so years, by looking back at some historical writings on sleeplessness and integrating the findings with, evidence-based research that he has undertaken over the last decade.

When Dr. David Kirkpatrick's wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2007, their lives - and their marriage - would change forever. In an honest, uplifting, and sometimes heartbreaking account of loving a partner with dementia, Dr. Kirkpatrick creates a clear guide for others in similar circumstances. He shares his perspective both as a loving and grief-stricken husband coping with a profound change in his marriage, and as a geriatric psychiatrist doing everything he can for his wife while continually learning throughout that experience.

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.

Simple, imaginative activities and expressive therapies designed for caregivers to engage and connect with people living with dementia. Finding the creativity in the journey through dementia is a challenge millions of people face. One in three Americans knows someone with the disease. This practical book offers caregivers hands-on ideas for meaningful, creative activities they can do with their patients, family members, or friends who have dementia.

Lifting Your Spirits is a unique and practical audio guide designed to help people coping with illness or disability. Drawing on the insights of those who have experienced the challenges of serious illness, it introduces seven simple tools to develop inner strength and enhance well-being on all levels. Each tool offers practical and inspiring ways of dealing with the physical and emotional upheaval and uncertainty which illness presents.

CBT is a treatment modality that is used to help individuals change their maladaptive thinking patterns. The premise of this technique is that when a person changes his maladaptive thinking patterns that it leads to changes in emotion and behavior as well. This process requires a significant amount of self-awareness because participants not only work to adjust their mindsets but they have to make extensive changes in their behavioral patterns, as well.

Do you struggle with depression, anxiety, or one of the multitudes of other mental illnesses that seem to plague modern society? If so, then you might also struggle with the side effects of the medication that is used to treat them. Medication that only seems to alleviate the symptoms and in some situations multiple medications used at once may even make them worse. What most people do not realize is that by learning how to utilize their Vagus Nerve they would be able to lead healthier and happier lives.

From a young age, Lucy Nichol has always been on edge. Whether it's because of her fear of beards, a general sense that she can catch a disease from anything, or the belief that she's going to throw up at any given moment, she's never really felt safe. In A Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes, Lucy explores the different lenses through which she and other people have viewed her mental health problems. She tackles a number of different stereotypes placed on people living with mental illness, including the idea that they are narcissists, hypochondriacs, and psychos.

Dr. Michele A. Reiss specializes in helping clients cope with life-threatening illnesses and helping their families through the grieving process. A highly respected therapist, she counseled Randy and Jai Pausch as Randy was dying of pancreatic cancer. Now Dr. Reiss provides comfort and counsel for listeners who are coping with the challenges of serious illness or grief.

The Beasts in Your Brain is a guide and companion equally for you and your loved ones, here to provide that essential first dose of information, understanding, and validation about mental illness and how it affects the young people of today.

Lina was a precocious toddler - charming, chatty, joyful. At the age of three, in the aftermath of her second MMR vaccine, first came a seizure, and then, to her parents’ horror, the loss of Lina’s ability to play, use language, and control her impulses. Over the next few years they continued to lose Lina. She communicated her acute discomfort by biting, screaming, hitting, laughing maniacally, and throwing violent tantrums.

Sebbene la principale preoccupazione relativa al COVID-19 riguardasse le sue conseguenze, soprattutto in termini di problemi respiratori, i progressi nella conoscenza di questa malattia hanno permesso di capire come i suoi effetti si estendono oltre i polmoni, e possono raggiungere ed influenzare il sistema nervoso. Questo testo affronta le conseguenze che il COVID-19 ha nel cervello, da una doppia prospettiva.

Dr. Matthias Ennenbach hat aus unzähligen Patientengesprächen ein allgemein gültiges Erklärungsmodell entwickelt, das die Psychosomatik aus der "Psychoecke" holt. Die erleichternde Botschaft: Jeder Mensch funktioniert psychosomatisch! Es gibt weder rein körperliche noch rein psychisch-nervliche Erkrankungen, sondern immer nur ein Wechselspiel von beidem. Und das lässt sich anschaulich darstellen.

Welcome to "The Role of Sleep in Health: Unlocking the Secrets of Quality Rest." We will embark on a journey into the enigmatic world of sleep, where science meets dreams, and rest holds the key to vitality. We will uncover the mysteries of the night, explore the intricate mechanisms of slumber, and unveil the extraordinary influence that sleep wields over every aspect of our existence.

Breast cancer can interrupt a life and demand that we pay more attention to the way we live. In this lyrical and inviting account, Patricia Greer explores associations and images that surround her experience of the disease. A Jungian analyst, she works with metaphors and meanings related to the illness and uses her dreams, inner journeys, and poetry to deepen into and under the reality of cancer. She shares her exploration with the hope that it may help others reflect on their experiences and find insights from understanding cancer as a source of wisdom.

Explore a medley of poetic beats, unique insights, and creative therapies in the author's first work of creative nonfiction. Tony Martello is an author like no other who combines sound and sanity to balance scholarly research with an enriched experiential existence. Creativity is king here and is grounded by peer reviewed studies on chronic pain both physical and emotional in nature.

Ein Hörbuch für alle Hypochonder und Comedy-Fans: Diese geistreichen und witzigen Dialoge zwischen der "Hypochonderin" Cordula Stratmann und der Ernährungswissenschaftlerin Marion Grillparzer sind nicht nur für (eingebildete) Kranke lehrreich und lustig gleichermaßen und streifen dabei eine Vielzahl an Themen, denen man im Alltag begegnet. Wer also schon immer mal wissen wollte, was eine Überdosis Lakritze für Folgen haben kann, der findet hier Antworten.

New science has revealed the importance of sleep as one of the key foundation stones of good health. Take control of your sleep with more than 40 proven strategies, based on a 360-degree approach to achieving excellent sleep. Find targeted meditation, movement, and breathing exercises; discover how light, color, and sound could hold the key to healthy sleep; and find out how to get to the root of the underlying causes of chronic sleep problems.

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.