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AD(H)S bei Erwachsenen? Wurde bisher kaum erkannt, noch seltener diagnostiziert und vor allem in seiner Bedeutung vollkommen unterschätzt. Tatsächlich leiden 50-60 % der als Kind von AD(H)S Betroffenen auch im Erwachsenenalter noch unter den typischen und weniger typischen Symptomen, die sie in ihrer Lebensgestaltung mitunter erheblich beeinträchtigen. Viele können den Scheinwerfer ihrer Aufmerksamkeit nicht lange fokussieren und sind leicht ablenkbar. Hinzu kommen Symptome wie Hyperaktivität, Verträumtheit und fehlende Impulskontrolle.

Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States. When Ann Neumann's father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She became his full-time caregiver - cooking, cleaning, and administering medications. When her father died, she was undone by the experience, by grief and the visceral quality of dying.

Everyone loves to blame a mother for making the "wrong" choices, and Elizabeth Heineman makes plenty of unpopular ones: being of advanced maternal age, having a home birth with a midwife, communing with her dead baby. In Ghostbelly, Heineman's brave, disarming, and stunning memoir, she recounts her indescribable grief after delivering a stillborn son, her shocking and intimate bonding with the baby's body before the burial, and the impossible task of saying goodbye.

To get into a man's heart, you have to get into his head. With this insider's guide to evaluating a man, Caroline Presno, EdD, PCC, teaches women how to apply psychotherapists' tricks of the trade to finding Mr. Right. Caroline Presno has developed systematic ways to "profile" a man for his degree of commitment readiness, his aptitude for love and intimacy, his chance of lying, or being unfaithful, his tendency toward big, bad personality problems like narcissism and paranoia, and his ability to fulfill his potential.

A significant event occurred in Jim's life when his son was born. His son, Michael, was born weighing 3 pounds, 14 ounces. He also had several health issues that were eventually diagnosed as a growth disorder. The growth disorder had many characteristics. Most significantly, the disorder made Michael, throughout his life, smaller and slighter than most children or adults. These characteristics led to Michael looking "different." Throughout Michael's life, there were many experiences where he was judged, teased, and bullied because he was small.

With increasing urgency, the plight of the American family grips the national conscience. The family courts are often our society's last safety net to prevent disaster. In this penetrating exposé of the inner workings of the U.S. family court system, two award-winning journalists provide an intimate look at the lives of the children whose fate it decides.

La vita di Valentina non è sempre stata facile. Ma con Federico al suo fianco si sente invincibile, e quando decidono di diventare una famiglia nulla sembra più poter andare storto. Prima arriva il dolce Alessandro, poi Teresa, un uragano di energia, e infine Cesare, il "biondo di casa". È tutto perfetto, finché un giorno una macchiolina color caffellatte compare sulla pelle di Cesare.

In 2021, Australia saw rage and revelation as #MeToo powered an insurgency against sexism and sexual violence. From once isolated survivors to political staffers, women everywhere were refusing to keep men’s secrets. In this electrifying essay, Jess Hill traces the conditions that gave birth to #MeToo and tells the stories of women who – often at great personal cost – found themselves at the centre of this movement. Hill exposes the networks of backlash against them – in government, media, schools and in our national psyche.

Named president and CEO of NBC at the age of 43, he faced a two-headed dragon: on one hand, distrust from the network people deeply skeptical of the "suit" from GE, their new corporate parent; and on the other, fiscal oversight demands from a cautious, conservative institution reluctant to invest heavily in a media business they didn't understand. For the next 20 years, he managed to navigate the fine line between the two and in the process completely reinvent - and save - the network.

In love as in comedy, timing is everything. One bad night doesn't mean it's time to quit. Have patience: great marriages, like a successful comedy career, take time. Turns out the cardinal rules of comedy have an uncanny resemblance to the "rules" of building a strong marriage. With humor and grace, writer and comedian Dani Klein Modisett shares a map for navigating your marriage through rough patches, bad jokes, and even nights when you bomb.

At 32 years old, the recently married author found herself suddenly surrounded by babies, and the expectation of family and friends that she would soon have one herself. Altman’s ambivalence prompted a search for the meaning of motherhood - one that led her to wear a fake pregnancy belly, attend pre-natal yoga classes, debate experts, and even tend to her very own crying plastic baby. Her reporting led to a surprising and uplifting lesson about life, love and the choices we make.

When Luke Allnutt suddenly found out his father had only a few months left to live, he expected a time of deep conversations and long reflective walks along the beach -- about where they had both been and where they both were going. He expected some sort of denouement, an ultimate reckoning, a performance in which his father would play the dying sage and he would play the dutiful son. In the end, it was nothing like that. But in his father’s silence, he found something surprising -- and, in the end, all the more meaningful.

For two decades, Davis Phinney was one of America’s most successful cyclists. He won two stages at the Tour de France and an Olympic medal. But after years of feeling off, he was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s. The body that had been his ally was now something else: a prison. The Happiness of Pursuit is the story of how Davis sought to overcome his Parkinson’s by reaching back to what had made him so successful on the bike and adjusting his perspective on what counted as a win.

Eltern möchten nur das Beste für ihr Kind. Viele meinen, sich deshalb bis zur Selbstaufgabe anstrengen zu müssen. Tun sie das nicht, sind sie nicht etwa entspannter, sondern werden von Gewissensbissen geplagt. Wie können Mütter und Väter einfach Eltern sein, die ganz im Sinne von Jesper Juul „gut genug“ sind? Dieses Buch möchte dabei helfen, den eigenen Weg in die Elternschaft ohne schlechtes Gewissen und mit vielen pragmatisch-praktischen Tipps aus dem Elternalltag zu finden.

Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood.

An estimated one in four women and one in six men is abused by age 18, most often by someone they know. Most of these sexual assaults are never disclosed, much less reported to the police. No Secrets, No Lies demystifies the cultural taboos and social dynamics that keep Black families silent and enable abuse to continue for generations. Through compelling personal accounts from everyday people, Robin D. Stone, a sexual abuse survivor herself, illuminates the emotional, psychological and hidden consequences of remaining silent.

Sujette au syndrome d'Asperger et diagnostiquée à l'âge adulte, l'auteure témoigne de son parcours, de ses questionnements et de la relation aux autres qu'entraîne ce trouble du spectre autistique.

Lidar com filhos, nos dias de hoje, implica discutir sexualidade, aceitar questionamentos a respeito da família, lidar com o sofrimento, posicionar-se diante do mundo digital, estabelecer limites, ajudar nas escolhas. Vera Iaconelli, psicanalista e colunista da Folha de S.Paulo, oferece, neste audiolivro, pistas sobre como melhor se aventurar na preocupante tarefa de criar filhos em tempos difíceis.

La hora violeta es una historia de amor: la de un padre por su hijo. Una de las frases que más oye un padre tras la muerte de su hijo es «No tengo palabras». Todo el mundo se queda sin palabras de consuelo en un momento en que los lugares comunes suenan a insulto. Pero Sergio del Molino sí tenía palabras. De hecho, solo tenía palabras, las que forman esta historia de amor titulada La hora violeta. Este audiolibro narra un año de la vida de su hijo Pablo, desde que fue diagnosticado de un raro y grave tipo de leucemia hasta su muerte.

Sposare una vegana ha conseguenze imprevedibili. Puoi ritrovarti a brucare l'erba da un vaso sul terrazzo, e sentirti in colpa per tutte le telline mangiate nella tua "crudele" vita precedente. Seguire questa dieta, scopri inoltre, comporta un grande dispendio di energie e - chissà perché? - di denaro. Roba da diventare nervosi per davvero, ancor più quando, dopo mesi di torture, con sorpresa e quasi fastidio, sei costretto ad ammettere che i tuoi esami medici sono, per la prima volta, perfetti.