Mental Health Awareness | South Kingstown Public Library

1) Are u ok?: a guide to caring for your mental health

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"Get answers to your most common questions about mental health and mental illness--including anxiety, depression, bipolar and eating disorders, and more. [This book] walks readers through the most common questions about mental health and the process of getting help--from finding the best therapist to navigating harmful and toxic relationships and everything in between. In the same down-to-earth, friendly tone that makes her videos so popular, licensed...

2) Capture: unraveling the mystery of mental suffering

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Kessler, David A

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Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, New York Times bestselling author Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon{u2014}capture{u2014}is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by forces outside...

3) Choosing therapy: a guide to getting what you need

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Romanovsky, Ilyana

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Like any decision that we make in life, making the choice to seek therapy involves mastering a large body of knowledge, sifting through the thousands of therapists in the field and finding the right one, understanding different psychological approaches to counseling and what might work best for any one person, learning a variety of skills on how to be in therapy, and exploring one's most inner self with a complete stranger. Most people are unfortunately...

4) The family guide to mental health care

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Sederer, Lloyd I

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More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level. Left untreated, mental disorders can devastate our families and communities. Family members and friends are often the first to realize when someone has a problem, but it is hard to know how to help or where to turn. In this compassionate, comprehensive, and reader-friendly guide, families can find answers to...

5) Girl, interrupted

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Kaysen, Susanna

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Kaysen writes of her experiences, augmented by pages from her medical record, in a psychiatric hospital and of the social and emotional assumptions that divide people into deviant or normal.

6) Healing: our path from mental illness to mental health

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Insel, Thomas R

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"A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America's broken mental health care system. As director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel was giving a presentation when the father of a boy with schizophrenia yelled from the back of the room, "Our house is on fire and you're telling me about the chemistry of the paint! What are you doing to put out the fire?" Dr. Insel knew in his heart that the answer was not...

7) Life inside my mind: 31 authors share their personal struggles

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"Thirty-one young adult authors share their own struggles with mental illness, ranging from such topics as neurodiversity and addiction to OCD and PTSD." --

8) Losing our minds: the challenge of defining mental illness

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Foulkes, Lucy

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"A compelling and incisive book that questions the overuse of mental health terms to describe universal human emotions Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of how to define it has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with the inherent stresses and challenges of human experience. A narrative has taken hold that a mental health crisis has been building among young people....

9) Mental health disorders in adolescents: a guide for parents, teachers, and professionals

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Hazen, Eric P

10) Mental health, Inc: how corruption, lax oversight and failed reforms endanger our most vulnerable citizens

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Levine, Arthur D

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With Mental Health, Inc., award-winning investigative journalist Art Levine delivers a Shock Doctrine-style exposé of the failures of our out of control, profit-driven mental health system, with a special emphasis on dangerous residential treatment facilities and the failures of the pharmaceutical industry, including the overdrugging of children with antipsychotics and the disastrous maltreatment of veterans with PTSD by the scandal-wracked VA. Levine...

11) Never simple

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Scheier, Liz

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"A darkly funny and devastating memoir of growing up in '90s Manhattan with a mentally ill single parent"--

12) You are not alone: the NAMI guide to navigating mental health : with advice from experts and wisdom from real people and families

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Duckworth, Ken

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"Provides practical guidance on dealing with mental health conditions and navigating care, research-based evidence on what treatments and approaches work, insight and advice from renowned clinical experts and practitioners, and real-life stories."--