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From the New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream, a radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them?

Psychiatry has made great advances in the past 50 years but needs a new direction. Today's emphasis on psychiatric drugs will not stand the test of time. Recent advances in epigenetics and the molecular biology of the brain have provided a roadmap for the development of effective, natural, drug-free therapies that do not produce serious side effects. Psychiatric medications have served society well over the last 50 years, but the need for drug therapies will fade away as science advances.

Suffering from depression but desperate for 'normality', Rachel Cullen found herself in failing relationships, the wrong career and a reliance on alcohol and chocolate to get her through each day. Stuck in an endless cycle of mental misery, she put on a pair of old trainers. She'd never been able to think of herself as a 'runner' before, and the first time she forced herself out the door, she knew it would hurt. Everywhere. She just didn't realise how much it would heal her, too.

Written with wisdom, warmth, and clarity, this inspirational and practical handbook offers tools for overcoming problems and enjoying more fulfilling lives. Judy Tatelbaum contends that while hurt is inevitable in life, suffering is not. We cannot control our circumstances and tragedies, but we can choose how much we suffer over them. The author suggests "We can use powerful experiences like losses, illness, hardship, and disappointment as stepping stones to our own growth."

Borderline Personality Disorder. "What the hell was that?" raged Rachel Reiland when she read the diagnosis written in her medical chart. As the 29-year old accountant, wife, and mother of young children would soon discover, it was the diagnosis that finally explained her explosive anger, manipulative behaviors, and self-destructive episodes- including bouts of anorexia, substance abuse, and sexual promiscuity.

I've heard so many people tell those who suffer depression to just "cheer up." I wonder if they really believe that it's that simple. Depression isn't just sadness. It is emptiness, it is misery. It is pain and nothingness at once. When you are truly depressed you lack the ability or will to cheer yourself up. Even with all our scientific advances, depression remains one of the most mysterious mental illnesses. In this profoundly insightful work, Om Swami categorizes depression into three types to help you see how a different approach is needed to cure each type.

Despite all her best efforts to break the cycle of catastrophic, destructive patterns of mental illness, Anna Berry found herself at the end of her rope - unemployed, penniless, homeless, and in the throes of a psychotic episode that threatened to destroy her life. Alone and unwell, she manages to find her grip on life, seeks the help she needs, and embarks on a life and career that illustrate that mental illness does not have to be ruinous.

The world of this novel moves back in time as the layers are peeled away to reveal the truth about a long-ago family tragedy that impacts the characters' lives for years after. Beginning with a young college student haunted by her own choices and ending with the surprisingly serene image of an aging woman looking back on her turbulent life, the story encompasses a panorama of events set against the changing social backdrop of the middle years of the 20th century.

An honest and compelling memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet is Merri Lisa Johnson’s account of her borderline personality disorder and how it has affected her life and relationships. Johnson describes the feeling of "bleeding out" unable to tell where she stopped and where her partner began. A self-confessed "psycho girlfriend," she was influenced by many emotional factors from her past. She recalls her path through a dysfunctional, destructive relationship, while recounting the experiences that brought her to her breaking point.

Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Here, Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival in an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello, Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to life for those who want to stay on the edge, but alive.

"What was the likelihood my adopted daughter would have my father's hazel eyes and my mother's mental illness?" In this fiercely candid memoir, Dr. Pruchno, a scientist widely acclaimed for her research on mental illness and families, shows how mental illness threatened to destroy her own family. Not once, but twice.

¿Por qué hay personas que van por la vida como bombillas con patas y otras que siempre están enredadas en un bucle de negatividad? La psicología positiva tiene la explicación y Victor Küppers nos la acerca de la manera más amena y divertida. En este nuevo libro, el autor recoge las 10 ideas para vivir con alegría de una de las conferencias más inspiradoras de los últimos años.

Anxiety can throw off your day in a matter of minutes. Bring yourself back into balance with Mindfulness Meditations for Anxiety. These 100 practical meditations equip you to handle your physical and mental responses, no matter when fight-or-flight feelings strike. Reduce nervousness and fear with a variety of breathing and mindfulness exercises, designed by a licensed psychologist and meditation instructor.

In this deeply moving and resourceful memoir, beloved actor-director and New York Times best-selling author Joe Pantoliano takes aim at the stigma attached to what he calls “brain dis-ease” by writing candidly and humorously about his own journey through clinical depression and addiction.

Plagued by depression her entire life, it wasn’t until her early 50s that writer and book critic Bethanne Patrick, advocating for her own care, received a medical diagnosis that would set her on the path to wellness and stability. Recognizing the intergenerational effects of trauma and mental health struggles, Patrick unearths the stories of her past in order to forge a better future for herself and her two daughters, dismantling the stigmas surrounding mental health challenges that can plague families into silence and resignation.

Entre el ocho y el quince por ciento de la población sufrirá depresión en algún momento de su vida. Actualmente, es la segunda causa de muerte entre personas de quince a veintinueve años, convirtiéndose en una verdadera epidemia, hasta el punto de que será el principal motivo de discapacidad en 2030. Sin embargo, sigue siendo un problema de salud sobre el que existen muchos prejuicios y falsas creencias.

En este audiolibro, la autora, médica y psicoterapeuta, explica cuáles son las etapas que puede atravesar una persona con depresión. Esto, con el fin de que pueda reconocer los síntomas de alarma y empezar a trabajar en ellos. La autora utiliza la terapia cognitivo conductual, la cual se sustenta en las principales distorsiones de la mente.

David Servan-Schreiber nos presenta en este audiolibro una nueva medicina de las emociones sin medicamentos ni psicoterapias interminables. Vinculando estrechamente su experiencia clínica y sus competencias de investigador, ha elegido presentar siete métodos de curación particularmente eficaces, algunos de ellos totalmente desconocidos por el público en general.

Es läuft nicht immer alles rund in der Beziehung, im Job oder bei den Kindern - Alltag, das heißt oft genug auch Ärger, Enttäuschung, schlechte Laune. Dagegen gibt es ein wirksames Rezept, weiß der Philosophie-Berater Albert Kitzler. Es hilft uns dabei, wieder in die Spur zu kommen und die eigene Glücksbilanz zu verbessern.

Entre el ocho y el quince por ciento de la población sufrirá depresión en algún momento de su vida. Actualmente, es la segunda causa de muerte entre personas de quince a veintinueve años, convirtiéndose en una verdadera epidemia, hasta el punto de que será el principal motivo de discapacidad en 2030. Sin embargo, sigue siendo un problema de salud sobre el que existen muchos prejuicios y falsas creencias.