Depression, like other mental illnesses, is rarely seen as a good thing. While many can articulate positive things about having a mental illness (or knowing someone who does), the illness itself is almost never ...

The Cyclothymia Workbook: Learn How To Manage Your Mood Swings & Lead A Balanced Life Cyclothymia is a mood disorder characterized by cycling periods of hypomania-unusual emotional highs-and periods of mild to moderate depression. The condition ...

Invisible Driving is a memoir of Manic Depression that takes readers inside the terrors, thrills, and triumphs of coming to terms with this debilitating and misunderstood mental illness. The manic narrator's voice vividly recreates the ...

Bipolar disorder and literary genius are often linked, the disorder considered a brilliant madness that produces great writers. Famous examples are Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, and Kay Redfield Jamison, who wrote the book Touched by ...

The Bipolar Advantage is a revelation. It is one man's journey through the darkness and light of the bipolar condition to a place of spiritual joy, functionality and excellence that holds lessons for everyone with ...

You know there's a new nonfiction genre by the titles alone -- Blink, Nudge, Predictably Irrational... and now Sway. This book is probably best compared with Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, but to me the Brafman ...

Looking for a book to help you or a loved one better understand bipolar disorder (also called manic depression)? We recommend the following: Madness: A Bipolar Life By the author of ...

I read Terri Cheney's Manic: A Memoir with a bit of suspicion. While living a Jackie Collins-like lifestyle as a Beverley Hills entertainment lawyer to the stars, she endures ECT without anaesthetic (and bit half ...

Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions Sometimes a book with multiple authors can be a train wreck. This is not one of those books, as each author brings a unique ...

Jason Pegler tells it as it was for him. A totally honest portrayal of life with manic depression, not leaving anything out, not even those deeply personal parts you wouldn’t want to share. Jason reveals ...

The Emotional Revolution: How the New Science of Feeling Can Transform Your Life From Amazon.com: "Dr. Norman Rosenthal has compiled an astonishing amount of cutting edge clinical research and history, combined this information with his clinical ...

Do One Thing Different: Ten Simple Ways to Change Your Life You can move quickly from "stuck" to "smooth sailing" in all aspects of your life using Bill O'Hanlon's ten easy Solution Keys, Humorous, direct, and ...

In Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychiatrist, turned a mirror on the creativity so often associated with mental illness. In this book she turns that mirror on herself. With breathtaking honesty she tells ...

The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know This is the equivalent of a dummy's guide to bipolar disorder, providing you and your family with a complete picture of what bipolar ...

The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder From Amazon.com: "For any caregiver experiencing life with a bipolar child, Demitri and Janice Papolos's The Bipolar Child will be an indispensable reference ...