Social Disorders

With the right guidance, you can independently develop all the skills you need to manage your social anxiety–and those skills will last you a lifetime. Listen to this audiobook to pull yourself out of your anxiety for good!

In this trailblazing book, Dr. Mark Rego, who has practiced psychiatry and taught at Yale for thirty years, explores why mental illness and stress are skyrocketing alongside technology ostensibly created to improve our world. Using decades of experience and pioneering scientific research, Dr. Rego presents his innovative hypothesis of Frontal Fatigue, the background condition from which many of us now suffer. Frontal Fatigue exists when the unique pressures of modern life overwhelm the prefrontal cortex, the part of our brains that can make us susceptible to mental illness.

Unleash Calm, Competent Parenting Skills, Even if the Daily Struggles Seem Overwhelming. Do you lie awake at night, questioning if your parenting approach is helping your child or contributing to their stress? Do you frequently ask, "How can I help my child navigate educational challenges, relationships, and emotional highs and lows while managing my own stress?" Are you desperate for practical, compassionate guidance you can implement immediately? This book is designed to support parents like you who face the daily challenges of raising a child with ADHD.

Social anxiety is a highly debilitating condition, leaving sufferers as complete nervous wrecks, no matter what the situation. There are always going to be people who tell you to "pull yourself together", without realizing exactly what it is you are going through, even though they themselves may feel of touch of anxiety when they are nervous or fearful about something. The fact is, social anxiety is a big issue, leading to far bigger symptoms that negatively affect your life.

Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of how to define it has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with the inherent stresses and challenges of human experience. A narrative has taken hold that a mental health crisis has been building among young people.

You may watch in awe as others participate in small talk and casual conversation, but you have no idea how to go about it. There must be rules and specific behaviors that are expected during small talk. You struggle to understand the skills that are necessary in order to initiate, participate in and end a conversation in the manner that others do. If this describes you, then you might find this guide useful!

Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human.

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is known to be a condition in which people usually have hypermobile joints and stretchy skin. This is what physicians generally look for when they are considering EDS diagnoses. The truth is that EDS can present in many different ways. There are many different types and forms of EDS, and they affect very different parts of a person's body. A physician who looks for only two signs is missing the big picture of the family history and the patient's symptoms in relation to an EDS diagnosis.

Endocrine pathophysiology is a major focus of the NCLEX exam. To help you master this content, we've created a comprehensive review book that covers all of the key concepts you'll need to know.

Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, human immunology, psychology and his own extraordinary experiences, Joshua Ramo puts forth a radical new model for looking at the world, one that embraces its inherent unpredictability--and offers our best hope for dealing with problems and disasters as they emerge.

Under the new rules of social media, we are not what we eat, but rather what others believe we eat. The 21st century has marked the emergence of social media networking sites. They have become a major part of our lives: we can't imagine our lives without them, and it's unrealistic to assume that's even possible. Platforms like Twitter and Facebook haven't been around long, but they are already having far-reaching impacts on our health and wellbeing.

If you are someone facing the anxiety issue or are associated with someone who is, this book is a perfect guide to help you understand the problem. Moreover, it will also help you learn techniques and ways to deal with such situations immediately on the long-term basis.

The life-changing manual Guided Meditation and Hypnosis for Social Courage provides practical advice for overcoming shyness, social anxiety disorder, and the fear of approaching strangers. This book contains potent affirmations that can help you overcome limiting ideas and critical self-talk and develop courage and confidence in social settings. An easy-to-follow manual that can help you access your inner strength and conquer your social fears was created by the author, a trained meditation and hypnosis specialist.

Author Hattie Cooper, the blogger behind The Anxious Girl's Guide to Dating, knows anxiety. She has lived with generalized anxiety disorder for years. Hattie shares immediate, easy-to-use strategies for tackling your social anxiety disorder and creating healthy habits. Featuring expert advice from foreword writer and registered psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald, the tools in this book will help you beat your anxiety and reveal your most confident self.

Democracy is under siege. The reason isn’t politics but personalities: Too many countries have come under the sway of high-conflict people (HCPs) who have become politicians. Most of these high-conflict politicians have traits of narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial (i.e., sociopathic) personality disorder, or both. This is the first and only guide for identifying and thwarting them.

Over 30 percent of people consider themselves shy, introverted, or just plain socially awkward! Most people find it difficult starting a new job, giving a speech, or going to an interview. This book is filled with simple advice and easy-to-use tactics – you’ll be surprised to see just how easy it really is to engage, converse, and confidently interact on a daily basis. With these simple strategies, people will be shocked and wonder what happened to make you far more socially aware and confident.

Discover simple strategies to manage your anxiety with ease! Social anxiety can range from manageable discomfort in social situations to actual panic attacks. Even in milder forms, it can harm relationships with loved ones and make you miss amazing career opportunities. Tiffany White offers a clear blueprint that will guide you towards a happier, more socially active life. In her book, you’ll find step-to-step guides to managing stressful situations and building healthy lifestyle habits that have been proven to reduce anxiety.

Why do I act the way I do? How can I think one thing, and do another? I know better! Why do I feel like a different person some days, on top of the world sometimes, and horrible at other times? There are answers to all of these questions. Anderson Silver has compiled teachings from stoicism and other schools of thought in Your Duality Within to help you navigate through them. A follow-up to the very successful Your User’s Manual, Your Duality Within is the second book in a three-book series tackling the most basic questions of our humanity.

Violation of biological command has been the failure of social man. Vertebrates though we may be, we have ignored the law of equal opportunity since civilization's earliest hours. Sexually reproducing beings though we are, we pretend today that the law of inequality does not exist. And enlightened though we may be, while we pursue the unattainable we make impossible the realizable.

In the early 1960s, Massachusetts writer and homemaker Clara Park and her husband took their three-year-old daughter, Jessy, to a specialist after noticing that she avoided connection with others. Following the conventional wisdom of the time, the psychiatrist diagnosed Jessy with autism and blamed Clara for Jessy’s isolation. Experts claimed Clara was the prototypical “refrigerator mother,” a cold, intellectual parent who starved her children of the natural affection they needed to develop properly.