Hopping Roller Coasters: A Tale of Forgiveness and Healing
So many times we think we know where we’re headed; then we’re taking an unexpected turn.
~ Hopping Roller Coasters
Rachel Pappas’s memoir, Hopping Roller Coasters, details the unpredictable story of a mother and daughter ...
How to Talk to Crazy People Many different types of people, for many different reasons, read memoirs about mental illness. Some may be suffering from an illness themselves and are looking for guidance or inspiration. Some may have questions as a ...
Reboot: A Novel of Bipolar Disorder After my girlfriend, whom we will call Elle, had her first full-blown manic episode, I began to read several books on bipolar disorder. These included books on medications and the use of ECT (electroconvulsive therapy), which Elle received ...
Suffer the Children: The Case Against Labeling and Medicating When a child has an emotional or behavioral problem, their school often recommends that they see a psychiatrist. This psychiatrist typically labels the child with a disorder, then advises the parents that the child should ...
Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up What happens when the use of psychotropic drugs in children becomes part of everyday life? If you were a child or raised children in the United States in the last 20 or 30 years, you ...
Depression: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed Depression is one of the most common forms of mental illness, yet at the same time also one of the most poorly understood. Most people have felt emotionally depressed at some point in their life. ...
Loud In The House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl I found "Loud In The House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl" by Stacy Pershall to be a superbly written, first-person account of a young girl's struggle with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar ...
Childhood Psychological Disorders: Current Controversies Childhood Psychological Disorders: Current Controversies by Alberto M. Bursztyn is the latest edition to the “Making Sense of Psychology” series. This series concerns itself with the psychological problems and challenges in the lives of today’s ...
The Medication Question: Weighing Your Mental Health Treatment Options Living in a world in which we are constantly bombarded with advertisements about the latest “miracle drug,” decisions regarding treatment for mental health issues are often difficult to make. Dr. Ronald J. Diamond’s The Medication ...
The Quest for Mental Health One thing about getting older is that history feels more relevant. I grew up in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Cognitive-behavioral therapy was in its infancy, and dialectical behavior therapy had not yet been ...
Surviving Depression: My Agonizing Struggle with Sanity Robert L. Hamlett’s Surviving Depression offers a window into the life of a man to whom many people can relate. His style may not be as eloquent as some, but Hamlett does get his point ...
Mistaken for ADHD After reading this book I believe the title says it all: “Mistaken for ADHD.” The author, Dr. Frank Barnhill, attempts to help parents, teachers, social workers and doctors who deal with adolescents and young children ...
Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter Dr. Deborah Serani's new book, Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter along the Path to Hope and Healing is a solid entry in the self-help depression book genre, once you get past the ...
Invisible Girls: The Truth about Sexual Abuse This is a new and revised edition of Dr. Feureisen's previous book which includes comments, e-mails and letters to the original edition. The book seems geared primarily toward teenage girls but young adult women and ...
The Buddha & The Borderline The Buddha & The Borderline, by writer, artist and advocate Kiera Van Gelder, exposes a regularly hushed-up topic: borderline personality disorder (BPD). BPD is shrouded in stigma. There’s little information about the disorder and, while ...
My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery from Mental Illness Schizophrenia affects one percent of the world population. It is indiscriminate of race, gender, status, and wealth. Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia is not multiple personalities -- that’s Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder). ...
Schizophrenia for Dummies Learning that a loved one has been diagnosed with schizophrenia can be extremely stressful and confusing. There can be many questions about the nature of the illness, treatment possibilities, and the prospects for recovery. Many ...
Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression Antidepressants are the most commonly prescribed class of medication in the United States. But Dr. James S. Gordon questions the use of drugs to treat depression:
This book will challenge the prevailing “medical model” of depression ...
