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2) The everything health guide to depression: reassuring advice to help you feel like yourself again
Author
Publisher
Adams media
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
292 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
xiii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a practice to focus attention, open awareness, and cultivate kind intention that can help one grow a healthier brain and reduce fear, anxiety, and stress in their life.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A deeply reported look at the rise of home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on individual lives
You swab your cheek or spit into a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal a long-buried family secret and upend your entire sense of identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession, an incessant...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
How does the brain--a three-pound wrinkly mass--give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was Freud right that we are all plagued by forbidden sexual desires? What is the function of emotions such as disgust, gratitude, and shame? Renowned psychologist Paul Bloom answers these questions and many more in Psych, his riveting new book about the science of the mind. Psych is an expert and passionate guide to the most intimate aspects of our...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xvi, 255 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Denial helps us manage difficult information rather than face the truth-about ourselves, our loved ones, and the world around us. But it can also stymie progress and upend our ability to take action in our lives. Here, Dr. Jane Greer shows us how to recognize, battle, and ultimately conquer denial in our lives, so we may face the truth and move forward.
Author
Physical Desc
xii, 345 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of self-help...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of one woman's struggle to care for her seriously ill husband--and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support.
Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate...
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
xvi, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the surface, capable teenage boys may look lazy. But dig a little deeper, writes child psychologist Adam Price, and you'll often find conflicted boys who want to do well in middle and high school but are afraid to fail, and so do not try. This book can help you become an ally with your son, as he discovers greater self-confidence and accepts responsibility for his future.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xii, 387 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julia Ross presents breakthrough solutions to many of the negative emotional states that are diminishing the quality of our lives. Ross's plan will help you to overcome depression, anxiety, irritability, stress, apathy, over-sensitivity, emotional eating and more. Eliminate insomnia, addiction, and hormone-related moodiness.
16) The power
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xv, 250 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Power, dubbed the sequel to The Secret, is the highly anticipated follow-up revealing everything Rhonda Byrne has learned and attracted to herself since the release of The Secret in 2006. She shows how perfect health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life filled with happiness, and the money you need to be, do, and have everything you want comes from one positive source of power.
Author
Publisher
Harper Celebrate
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiv, 194 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Life is hard. But it gets a whole lot easier when you start to talk it out. Discover your purpose, honor your story, and explore who you want to be. Dr. Corey Yeager offers you 40 questions to help you develop positive mental health strategies for anxious moments while increasing your confidence."
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by a chemical imbalance in our brains. They postulate that they are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Hari's journey took him from a series of experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin. Once he had uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Lisa Olivera was just a few hours old, she was abandoned behind a rock near Muir Woods in Northern California. She was found by a man and a woman who were out bird watching with their toddler. Two days later, she was adopted. Growing up, she knew she was adopted. She later discovered she was abandoned. She often wondered about her birth mother, and why her birth mother abandoned her in the woods. Without any answers, Lisa came up with her own:...