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The Insanity Machine is an introspective look at life with paranoid schizophrenia. This book takes a clinical and observational look at the challenges presented by the condition. Kenna discusses the definition of paranoid schizophrenia, treatments, living with the disorder, and many other topics surrounding schizophrenia.

Searching for answers everywhere has led you to believe your beloved child might have schizophrenia. You can only find horror stories on the illness, that is when you’re able to understand the lengthy and confusing medical terminology at all.

In this updated second edition, available only as an audiobook, Randye Kaye tells listeners, in the introduction and epilogue, about what happened in the decade after the initial release of Ben Behind His Voices. Yes, Ben is still here, still living real-life "Chutes and Ladders". When we first meet Ben, he's a sweet, intelligent, seemingly well-adjusted youngster. Fast forward to his teenage years and Ben's life has spun out of control. He's swept along by an illness over which he has no control—one that results in homelessness, hospitalizations, and finally a diagnosis.

Susan Doherty's groundbreaking book brings us a population of lost souls, ill-served by society, feared, shunted from locked wards to rooming houses to the streets to jail and back again. For the past ten years, some of the people who cycle in and out of the severely ill wards of the Douglas Institute in Montreal have found a friend in Susan, who volunteers on the ward, and then follows her friends out into the world as they struggle to get through their days. With their full cooperation, she brings us their stories, which challenge the ways we think about people with mental illness.

Unlike depression and other serious illnesses, bipolar disorder affects millions of people around the world. Whether you, a friend or family member, are diagnosed with Bipolar, or if you think that someone you know might have Bipolar, this audiobook is a great first call point for advice and support. The audiobook includes validated tips and methods on how to identify signs of bipolar disorder, a number of solutions to treat symptoms from diet to licensed clinicians and support group assistance, and how to recognize and predict the signs of an oncoming bipolar episode.

Dealing with schizophrenia is so tough and life-altering. I know the struggle for myself. I know that there can be a lot of ups and downs. At least that's my hardship. If you are schizophrenic, this book is specifically for you. Schizophrenic to Schizophrenic is a book that is written from myself, a person living with schizophrenia, written to you, another person living with schizophrenia. I wrote this for you. My heart goes out to you. I know this life is not easy, but I have a reason for joy, hope, and peace in my life now. I just want to share my story with you.

In this mind-twisting tale based on real events, Fendi Jane Hathaway, an individual with schizoaffective disorder, writes down her feelings and what she experiences with mental illness inside a deep, dark diary. Throughout the story, you'll find that schizophrenia isn't what meets the eye. In fact, schizophrenia isn't what people make it at all.

New York Times-best-selling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love ones, Powers limns our fears and myths about mental illness and the fractured public policies that have resulted.

Join me as I try to dodge flying fists, amorous advances, sticky fingers, airborne objects, and other unsavory surprises. You'll roll with laughter and cry with compassion. You'll meet real patients who inspire you even at the lowest point of their lives. You'll meet patients who, despite their challenges, aren't too different from yourself, your family, friends, or that creepy guy staring at you from the window. Made you look.

Being diagnosed with bipolar disorder was like losing my flight plan. It was as if my destination and alternate airports had disappeared. My engines were on fire during the height of my first full-blown manic episode and I was certain that a crash was imminent. An emergency was declared. To my surprise I learned that I had on board with me the love and support of family and friends. In the end I landed safe and sound, just not where I had intended. I was never able to make a career out of flying. Having worked four commercial pilot jobs as a flight instructor and charter pilot, I now know that those years were the beginning of unrecognized signs and symptoms of bipolar disorder. I was too restless to stay at one job long enough to be truly prepared for the next.

Many biographies of people with schizophrenia seem to dwell primarily on the feeling of hopelessness, and they keep expectations for the sufferer's future low. With this autobiography, Mr. Jiang attempts to turn the tables on this litany of sorrow. He shows himself as a result of the miracles that modern medicine can produce. He went from being a basket case to a respected, technologically-savvy medical librarian working at a world-renowned research institution.

Narré en première personne, « Journal d’une crise psychotique », de Douglas Gonçalves, est l’histoire d’un cadre faisant face à une crise psychotique qui le transforme en spectateur de son propre sort, changeant sa vie pour toujours.

Algunos infractores de la ley son psicópatas, y algunos psicópatas violan la ley , pero en su mayor parte, los psicópatas entre nosotros son personas comunes con rasgos y cualidades distintas. Los sociópatas tienen un trastorno distinto que los hace diferentes a todos los demás. Que m ay incluso conocer algunos usted mismo, o tal vez usted ha estado influenciada por uno en el pasado. En este libro, aprenderá, entre otros:

Alguns infratores da lei são psicopatas e outros violam a lei , mas, na maioria dos casos, os psicopatas entre nós são pessoas comuns com características e qualidades distintas. Os sociopatas têm um distúrbio distinto que os torna diferentes de todos os outros. Você m ay mesmo saber alguma si mesmo, ou talvez você tenha sido influenciado por um no passado.

At the age of 30, Jake found himself hospitalized, grappling with the weight of anxiety, depression, and paranoia. Soon, he received the life-altering diagnosis of schizophrenia. In this intimate and illuminating book, you are invited into Jake's world, a world he shares with his mother, Laurette, through alternating chapters.

An electrifying true story of one young woman's nightmarish descent into the hell of schizophrenia and her courageous battle to rejoin the real world, such is the story of Lori Schiller. Once she had it all - a loving family, devoted friends, intelligence, and opportunity. Then at age 15 she began to suffer from symptoms of schizophrenia, hearing voices that began to take over her life. At 23, she committed herself to a private mental institution and spent the next 7 years waging a war against the voices that urged her to kill her family, her doctor, herself. This account of a journey into and out of madness is at once gripping, heartening, and ultimately triumphant.

Zehn Jahre Albtraum. Zehn Jahre voller Ängste. Eine Krankheit, bei der das ganze Leben aus den Fugen gerät. Die Diagnose Schizophrenie verbreitet gemeinhin Schrecken, und das nicht ohne Grund. Jens Jüttner berichtet aus eigener langer Erfahrung über seine paranoide Schizophrenie. Offen erzählt er über seinen langen Weg mit vielen Tiefen, und wie er es am Ende geschafft hat, aus der Krankheit herauszufinden. Das Hörbuch klärt auf, wirbt um Verständnis und will anderen Betroffenen und deren Umfeld eine Hilfestellung sein und Mut machen - informativ, emotional, spannend, authentisch geschrieben.

In his early 20s, Mindy Greiling's son, Jim, was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after experiencing delusions that demanded he kill his mother. At the time, and for more than a decade after, Greiling was a Minnesota state legislator who struggled, along with her husband, to navigate and improve the state's inadequate mental health system. Fix What You Can is an illuminating and frank account of caring for a person with a mental illness, told by a parent and advocate.

In 2004, Mindy begins hearing a voice in her head, someone she calls "Joe," and sees signs everywhere that hold mysterious clues only for her. What she doesn't know at the time is that she is experiencing her first schizophrenic episode. For the next decade, she oscillates between two worlds -- a normal life and a secret voice-filled one -- until she begins the journey of merging her two worlds back into one. Becoming Whole documents her onset of schizophrenia and the subsequent years spent learning about it and how to live with it. It is her journey to find solace.

Psychopathie, een intrigerend en vaak verkeerd begrepen fenomeen dat de menselijke geest al eeuwenlang fascineert. Het wekt nieuwsgierigheid en angst op, roept vragen op over de aard van goed en kwaad, en dwingt ons om diep na te denken over de complexiteit van menselijk gedrag.