Mental Illness category: 868 books

Conduct disorder is a childhood behavior disorder characterized by aggressive and destructive activities that cause disruptions in the child's natural environments such as home, school, church, or the neighborhood. The overriding feature of conduct disorder is the repetitive and persistent pattern...

Change is difficult; losing weight, cutting down drinking, improving relationships, stopping smoking, increasing self-esteem, eating healthily and dealing with anxiety are all really, really difficult. This series of self-help workbooks will help you make all of these changes. Each workbook...

Depression is the leading cause of suicide, domestic violence, declining performance and relationship issues. It is an absolute necessity to get take control of it, and get rid of it.  Even if you are not facing depression related issues, this eBook will help you keep this beast under control....

This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: About Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Chapter 2: Children And Ocd Chapter 3: About Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder Chapter 4: Cure For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Chapter 5: Examples Of Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder...

Depersonalization disorder occurs when you persistently or repeatedly have a sense that things around you aren't real, or when you have the feeling that you're observing yourself from outside your body. Feelings of depersonalization can be very disturbing and may feel like you're losing your grip...

Dependent personality disorder is characterized by an excessive need to be taken care of or depend upon others. Persons with this disorder are typically submissive and display clinging behavior toward those from whom they fear being separated. Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.

“Schizophrenia” is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks.  It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the characteristics, symptoms and treatment of schizophrenia, including the pathology and etiology of the mental disorder. It...

The schizophrenic is in fact completely alien to the surroundings and the personal and interpersonal events outside, retreating into his own world and reacting to stimuli in an incoherent and incomprehensible. So Schizophrenia makes progressively fragmented personality and methods of interpersonal...

One moment life was sunny and carefree. In the next it was stormy and chaotic. That’s what happened to twenty-year-old Susannah Pitman as she stood on the front porch of her childhood home and witnessed a tree fall on her father during a fast moving thunderstorm. As she grieved his passing, post-traumatic...

How are people and communities able to prevail despite challenge? What helps them bounce back from adversity and even grow in knowledge and understanding? And can this resilience be taught? During the past decade, exciting scientific advances have shed light on how resilience operates from neurons...

Learn how meditation can transform your life! A 'meditation for beginners' guide that will teach you to find life-long peace and happiness. Meditation isn't about chanting, crystals or playing with an eagle feather. It is a scientifically proven way of taking control of your life by...

This true story of a Marine’s experience after Iraq “offers practical advice for veterans and families coping with post-war emotional trauma” (Publishers Weekly).   As America’s longest wars end, hundreds of thousands of veterans and their families struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder...

In this short easy to read essay the author succinctly outlines three practical steps to improving mind health and overcoming anxiety and stress. Focused on living in a stressful world this is the first short essay to bring together mindfulness, meditation and brain nutrition under one complete approach....

When Claire Bien first began hearing voices, they were infrequent, benign and seemingly just curious about her life and the world around her. But the more attention Claire paid, the more frequently they began to speak, and the darker their intentions became... Despite escalating paranoia, an...