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2024
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I Love My Life is an essential and impactful children's book that promotes Indigenous culture and values while encouraging young readers to love their lives and build a strong foundation for a positive future. Dr. Eppinga hopes this book contributes to the mental wellness of Indigenous children and youth by instilling in them a sense of self-worth, cultural pride, and community support.
Your Brain
Three Pounds of Fat Equals Your Life and Your Destiny
2009
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I recently graduated from medical school, and during my medical training I became deeply fascinated with the brain. I loved everything about it and how it works. Most people know little about it, and yet it is responsible for our life. Your mind is housed in your brain, and it is your mind that will determine who you are. In this book, I give many interesting facts and insights into your brain. There are several ways we need to take care of it, including proper sleep and exercise, in order to...
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Anatomy of an Epidemic
Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
2010
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Updated with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with new research, this New York Times bestseller is essential reading for a time when mental health is constantly in the news.In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades?Interwoven with Whit...
Bad News
Book Two of the Patrick Melrose Novels
- Book 2 -
- The Patrick Melrose Novels
2018
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Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe DannerIn Bad News, the second installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry and profound series, the Patrick Melrose Cycle, Patrick, now in his twenties, is traveling to New York to collect the ashes of his recently deceased father.Deep in the grasp of a crippling drug addiction, he spends most of his time searching for a fix...
New Hope for People with Borderline Personality Disorder
Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions
2011
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Discover Exciting New Treatments for Borderline Personality DisorderNow you can overcome the symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and develop a more positive outlook on life, starting today. Inside is a compassionate and complete look at the most up-to-date information on managing the symptoms of BPD as well as coping strategies for you, your friends, and your loved ones. This thoughtful book will teach you how to manage your moods, develop las...
Winter Blues, Fourth Edition
Everything You Need to Know to Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder
2012
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"A 'landmark book.'"--The New York Times*When the dark days of winter approach, do you feel sluggish and slow? Is it a struggle to get out of bed each morning?*Do you have difficulty focusing at work or in relationships, feel down in the dumps, or, worse still, get really depressed?*Does it get harder than ever to stick to a healthy diet and control your weight?If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, you may be one of the millions of pe...
Mealtimes and Milestones
A teenager's diary of moving on from anorexia
2010
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An astonishingly moving and mature account of a young woman's struggle with anorexia nervosa, a serious mental illness affecting 1.1 million people in the UK. At fourteen years of age, Constance Barter was admitted as an in-patient to a specialist eating disorders unit where she remained for seven months. During that time, she kept a diary which sheds light on what it means to have anorexia, how it affects your life, and how it is not just a faddy diet or attention seeking disorder.
Brain Gain
Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom
2012
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"In an age where the answer to every question is at your fingertips, where does the human brain fit in?"In one hand-held object, we are able to manage all of our calendars, documents, and interpersonal relationships with such ease that many people are lost when forced to do perform these tasks without the aid of electronics. Often heard are the calls for less technology and more face-to-face interaction, for fear that the use of all this artificial intelligence is d...
Lying
A Metaphorical Memoir
2012
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"The beauty of Lauren Slater's prose is shocking," said Newsday about Welcome to My Country, and now, in this powerful and provocative new book, Slater brilliantly explores a mind, a body, and a life under siege. Diag-nosed as a child with a strange illness, brought up in a family given to fantasy and ambition, Lauren Slater developed seizures, auras, neurological disturbances--and an ability to lie. In Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Slater blends a coming-of-age story with...
Untangling the Mind
Why We Behave the Way We Do
2013
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Free yourself from emotional turmoileven when that turmoil is caused by others!We have a much greater understanding of human behavior now than we did just a few decades ago. Yet even with this greater understanding of the human mind, why we do what we do can sometimes seem like a mystery. People are often left with unsettling questions about their own (or others') behavior.We ask ourselves, Why did I make a spectacle of myself? Why am I so stressed? Why am I constantly so n...
Happiness & Health
9 Choices That Unlock the Powerful Connection Between the TwoThings We Want Most
2009
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The first practical guide to the physical benefits of positive emotions?from the national bestselling authors of How We Choose to Be Happy.Happiness & Health unravels the mysteries of the mindbody connection as it presents clinical, scientific, and anecdotal evidence that proves that the adoption of a set of simple behaviors?known collectively as the ?model of health??can biochemically enhance health and well-being.Validated by internation...
2010
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If college is supposed to be the best time of our lives, why are so many students unhappy? What causes a well-adjusted and academically successful high school graduate to suddenly flounder when he reaches college? Why might she start to skip classes, binge on alcohol, or engage in unsatisfying hook-ups? Where does the anger and self-doubt come from, and why is it directed at loving parents or the student himself? Drawing on years of experience treating college-age youth, David Leibow, M.D....











