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After Michelle emigrates to the U.S. from the tight-knit ethnic Chinese enclave in Incheon, South Korea, she must adapt quickly to survive. With a dominant, impulsive father in charge-who protects the family from everyone but himself-and a mother who never finds her power, Michelle craves safety and security.
Like tumbleweeds, Michelle and her family bump across the country in a Ford Dixie van before settling in Phoenix, Arizona. Working at their family-owned Chinese takeout restaurant by age 12, Michelle drowns in pressures beyond her age.
Ultimately, Michelle finds love, not only the romantic kind, but an enduring self-love, which allows her to heal, to never give up, and to thrive while successfully managing what later becomes a bipolar 1 diagnosis.
For years, Gabe Howard's entertaining articles and essays have been educating people about living with mental illness. His observations cover everything from practical advice to family relationships to the fears that people with mental illness experience.
In essays such as Anxiety Says Everyone Hates Me, I Have Bipolar and I'm a Hypocrite, and, yes, Mental Illness Is an Asshole, Gabe makes mental illness less scary and more understandable.
Brett's most recent manic episode has derailed him from life as the director of operations at a prominent software start-up in Texas. He is now at home, fully dependent on his mother, and officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Brett is terrified. He has no guarantees on his long-term health, no understanding of how his medication works and is still dealing with hell-like anxiety, restlessness, mania, and depression.
Crossing Back Over: The Practice of Owning and Accepting Bipolar Disorder details Brett's battle with taming the beast that is bipolar. Written in the same style as part 1 of his story, Crossover: A Look inside a Manic Mind, Crossing Back Over sheds light on what true recovery looks and feels like from a firsthand account.
No matter the environment, recovering from a serious event takes hard work, discipline, patience, and acceptance. Crossing Back Over allows the reader to peek behind the curtain of an individual determined to find a happy life, even with his chronic brain disorder. This book is valuable for anyone who is facing a deeply personal challenge.
Do you often struggle to regulate your emotions and build strong interpersonal relationships? Have you recently received a diagnosis of BPD, and you're left feeling overwhelmed and stuck? Or are you searching for a practical resource to help you practice essential emotional self-care strategies? Then this DBT workbook is for you.
Specially written with a profound and practical blend of therapeutic DBT skills strategies, personal anecdotes, and the latest scientific insights, this comprehensive dialectical behavior therapy workbook for borderline personality disorder reveals tried-and-tested lessons that challenge and motivate you to reclaim your emotions and work through feelings of fear, anger, abandonment, emptiness, jealousy, or insecurity.
Inside, you'll join Amazon bestselling author of multiple DBT workbooks Barrett Huang as he reveals a fascinating collection of psychological techniques that provide you with a complete action plan for creating a happier, more emotionally stable life. You'll uncover the root causes of BPD, the neuroscience going on behind the scenes, and a selection of easy worksheets and guided exercises to help you better deal with mood swings or emotional instability.
If you're tired of struggling with the rollercoaster or your emotions, or if you want to strengthen your relationships, this DBT Workbook for BPD contains easy-to-follow strategies that inspire you on a path to a more stable and positive life.
Here's just a little of what you'll discover inside:
Even if you've tried other forms of therapy before and you haven't seen results, this book will take you by the hand and guide you through every step, so you can easily begin building valuable DBT skills and improving your mental wellbeing.
Are you ready to begin treating your borderline personality disorder? Then scroll up and grab your copy today!
BREAKING BIPOLAR is an empowering self-help book with clear, detailed instructions to create a powerful battle plan and win the war against bipolar disorder.
Fighting bipolar disorder is truly a war. This mental illness can be devastating and life-threatening if not treated properly. In this vital guidebook Troy Steven utilizes his personal experience battling bipolar disorder for 30 years and his aerospace engineering expertise writing test plans and procedures to offer a powerful battle plan to enable individuals with bipolar disorder to overcome the disease and live a good life that they have control over.
BREAKING BIPOLAR provides step-by-step instructions for creating your personal bipolar battle plan, and how to deploy each weapon in the plan effectively for maximum impact. The book is chock-full of information you and your loved ones need to understand the illness, transcripts of people with bipolar disorder who were interviewed and personal stories of the authors journey through the bipolar minefield and how he overcame the enemy after years of trial and error.
The Bipolar Battle Plan consists of the following weapons:
Troy Steven currently works as a Test Engineer for a Space company and has published over 50 books for other authors through his publishing company, Battle Press. He is blessed with 4 children and 3 grandchildren and resides in Satellite Beach, FL.
A compassionate approach to understanding and supporting loved ones with bipolar disorder
If your loved one was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, you probably have a lot of questions and concerns about how to help them live the healthiest life possible. Understanding Bipolar Disorder answers those questions and offers helpful guidance with essential information, practical strategies, and support for families of people suffering from bipolar disorder.
Learn about what bipolar is, how it's diagnosed, the science behind it, and the treatments available, including medication, therapies, and community support. You'll find effective tools for dealing with a diagnosis as a family, advice for exploring therapy options as a team, and simple techniques for managing your family's stress levels to prevent emotional burnout.
Understanding Bipolar Disorder includes:
Take the first step toward understanding and managing bipolar disorder--together.
Reset your body clock and overcome your worst bipolar symptoms with this innovative workbook.
If you have bipolar disorder, you may be especially vulnerable to changes in circadian rhythms--also known as your biologic or body clock. If you've ever had low energy during the day, but couldn't sleep at night, you've experienced a dysregulated body clock. You've also likely experienced the myriad negative physical and mental consequences of compromised, out-of-sync circadian rhythms, including changes in mood, sleep, and behavior. So, how do you stabilize this biologic clock, and in turn, stabilize your mood?
In The Social Rhythm Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder, bipolar and mood disorder expert Holly Swartz offers a fresh approach to help you reset your body clock, overcome shifts in mood, and find relief from your bipolar symptoms. Drawn from proven-effective social rhythm therapy (SRT), this groundbreaking workbook is filled with tools and actionable skills for creating a consistent schedule for sleeping, eating, and interacting with others.
You'll also learn how to combat the effects of social media scrolling in the evening--the dreaded enemy of a well-regulated sleep schedule. Finally, you'll discover how to anticipate and plan for potentially rhythm-disrupting events such as out-of-town guests, pandemic-related disruptions, or even a hospital stay.
Our biologic clocks are running virtually nonstop, controlling an amazing array of processes--including sleep, energy, concentration, and appetite. If you're ready to take charge of your circadian rhythms and set yourself up for a better mood and quick relief from bipolar symptoms, pick up this friendly guide and set your clock for success.
En Mi Dulce Bipolaridad, Dulce López comparte su inspiradora historia de superación y transformación después de enfrentar los retos de la bipolaridad. Con honestidad y vulnerabilidad, relata su viaje desde la depresión y la oscuridad hacia la luz, permitiéndose reinventarse en el proceso.
BIPOLAR DISORDER
Bipolar disorder is an often misunderstood illness, suffered by many.
Whether you suffer from bipolar disorder, or a family member or friend, this book will help educate you on the disorder and how it can be treated.
As you will soon discover, bipolar disorder comes in several different forms, and not everyone suffers the same symptoms. This book will explain to you what medical professionals to see, what the symptoms are, how you can help a loved one, and alternative strategies to take.
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Do you suffer from a Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
Do you need to gain more control before it ruins your relationships?
This book will help you do it
For anyone who is suffering from a BPD it can be a rough road to travel, with all sorts of issues to contend with. Not least among them is how it affects your relationships with those closest to you and also how your behavior can have a negative impact on their wellbeing too. If you are one of these people and find that you often lose control of your emotions, then you need to act now.
This book, Borderline Personality Disorder: Spot and Manage your BPD, Control Your Emotions and Improve Your Relationships, will help you recognize the signs of BPD and then gives you actionable advice to cope with it, through chapters on:
Even if you have tried other remedies for your BDP before and have failed to find the answers you are looking for, it shouldn't mean that you give up in your quest. BPD can be beaten, and you can do it with the help of this amazing book.
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BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
This book covers the topic of Borderline Personality Disorder, and will educate you on the different signs and symptoms of BPD. Inside, you will discover how BPD is diagnosed, the different treatment methods available, self-help strategies you can implement, and ways that you can help a loved one with BPD.
Borderline Personality Disorder can have a huge impact on a person's life in many different ways. It can affect their work life, their relationships, and their overall wellbeing. However, it doesn't have to totally control a person. This book will provide you with steps and strategies to control BPD symptoms, and maintain a normal healthy lifestyle, despite a BPD diagnosis.
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Breast cancer survivors have pink bands. Our troops, yellow ones. Healthy hearts and AIDS awareness is designated with red. White bands typically symbolize peace. Major awareness groups are easily recognizable by their respective colors, which is clearly a positive. But what is the color, where is the cause, who comprises the groups that have an equal level of popularity and advocates for the millions upon millions of people who suffer from mental health issues? Were you aware that the color for mental health is in fact green? Most likely not, as it is a topic not covered in the way that other health issues are. In her first novel, Michelle Krack chronicles her story and continual battle with overcoming bipolar disorder. Readers will learn of the heart-breaking struggles and everyday victories that accompany life from the perspective of a mother of four, sister to three, and above all else- survivor of one. Beginning with her deep family roots in the southern Indiana city of Evansville, Michelle touches on the fears, tears, hilarity, and special moments so near to her heart and some, unfortunately, ever imbedded into her memory. The order in which her tale is presented parallels bipolar disorder, with stories here and there that interrupt what would normally be a traditional reading experience.
Author Biography:
Michelle May Krack, whose name is frequently mispronounced Crack, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1989 when she was thirty-one.
Her memoir, Michelle may crack , is written for her immediate family and extended family and those dealing with mental health issues. She believes recovery is possible with mental illness. Michelle has lived in Evansville, Indiana all of her life, sixty years.
Currently, she works at the Peace Zone, a peer-based recovery center as a Certified Recovery Specialist(CRS)\ Community Health Worker (CHW). Michelle also leads outreach programs at the local hospitals, including a drug and alcohol treatment center.
In 2014, Michelle received the Consumer Advocate Heroes for Recovery Award from Mental Health America of Indiana for her work.
She has been married to her husband Tim for forty years.They have four grown children, one granddaughter, and two grandsons.
Her hobbies, besides writing, include gardening and art in various mediums.
Contact: Michellemaycrack@gmail.com
Reader Reviews:
...readable, heartwarming story puts a human face on an illness so often stigmatized and misunderstood by our society...interesting insights into the subjective experience of mental illness, as well as its effect on families and communities...highlighting how critical family support and understanding can be to the recovery process. As a mental health professional, it was particulary useful to hear her perspective and experience with the treatment process...should strike a blow against the stigma of mental illness. Mental health professionals should also find it interesting and helpful in their efforts to suppport individuals on their path of reovery from mental illness.
-Mental Health Professional
Michelle has a life she is passionate about and proud of. She knows this is a result of acceptance, continuous learning, meaningful work, doctors who listen and a loving marriage and family. She has made a considerable contribution to peer advocacy. Brava
-Diane Arneson, NAMI Evansville, IN, Family Educator National Alliance on Mental Illness
Bipolar disorder is not like black and white. You may ask yourself why. The reason is that the differences in the scale of each color or shade can be so subtle with full of intensity in its expression. Black can be made by mixing the primary colors in equal amounts--red, yellow, and blue. While white is a combination of all colors in the color spectrum mixed in equal amounts. In both combinations, the colors mixed have to be exact, or you end up with a different color or shade. What makes them unique is that black is the absence of light, and white is the presence of light, making them opposites and effortless. So why black and white? Because they are far from each other like the North Pole and the South Pole.
Bipolar disorder has extensive alterations called mood swings that are also opposites of each other named depression and manic episodes, but still do not have specific manifestations or range in their state, no one is alike. There is no method, prescription, or procedure for any of us with bipolar disorder, and should never be categorized as one and never stereotyped. It is not easy to define it as if it is the colors or shades of black and white because every person who suffers from bipolar disorder should be treated as an individual case, not as a whole. Each case is different which makes this disorder extremely difficult to manage by the medical department and the patient.
Medication is given, for the most part at first wrongly. What works for someone might not work for me, so it becomes a trial-and-error method. Not knowing if the medication is going to work creates uncertainties, and I fear for my life and my well-being. It is part of the process until I get the correct medication, and I am feeling well. When this happens, I need you to be with me, even if you are not physically here. I need to know that I can count on you, and mostly I need to hear you say that you love me. My prayers are that by the time you finish reading this book, you will have a conceptual understanding of what bipolar disorder is, and there are no misconceptions.
Psycho, psychotic, psychosis. The words get thrown around by everyone from newsreaders to the guy in the pub talking about his ex, and feed into a fog of stigma and misinformation that can make it feel impossible to talk about living with hallucinations and delusions.
In reality, psychosis affects 6% of the UK population at some point in their lives. It can be caused by a huge range of factors, from sleep deprivation and certain medications to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. This guide digs into what psychosis really means, what it feels like, and how to handle its effects along with tackling stigma and other people's misconceptions. Informed by interviews and the author's own lived experience, this book explores the realities of living with psychosis. Whether you experience psychosis or support someone who does, this book will help you to understand the symptom and tackle its challenges.
If you feel like you're on an unstable emotional rollercoaster with no end in sight, or if you're close to someone with BPD and don't know what to say or do, keep reading.
Do you often feel happy and excited one minute and then upset and sad the next without knowing why?
Are you having trouble keeping a relationship going because you're afraid your partner will leave?
Have you hurt a loved one or yourself because you were so angry you couldn't stop or control it?
Or, do you know someone with BPD and care about them, but you don't understand the disorder and want help?
You're not alone. Over four million people in the US also have symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD), such as fluctuating emotions, a strong fear of being left alone, and extreme anger.
This disorder isn't exactly unheard of. In fact, movies and real-life stories about people with this disorder often bring it to the public's attention. BPD is one of the most well-known mental health disorders. However, it is also one of the least understood.
In the harsh and overcritical world of today, it's easy to call someone manipulative, dangerous, or even crazy without knowing how hurtful it is... especially for somebody with BPD.
Worse, BPD symptoms don't just show up in one area of your life. They can show up in your mood, behavior, and self-image, among other things.
This could be why it's hard for you to keep your feelings in check, keep relationships going, do well at work, or even manage your money.
People often think that living with BPD is hopeless, but that's not true. It can be managed and treated.
The key to dealing with BPD is to learn as much as you can about it and use what you've learned. Lucky for you, this book tells you everything you need to know.
This book is a must-read if someone close to you has been overwhelmed in the last three months by:
- Anxiety, sadness, and anger, often for things that other people don't understand or don't think are relevant.
- Intense or uncontrollable emotional explosions.
- Unstable relationships with other people and low self-esteem.
- Fear of being left alone.
- Desperate feelings of being misunderstood.
- A sense of helplessness and hopelessness.
- Thoughts of hurting yourself or killing yourself.
- Doubts about who they are and if they are crazy.
Don't let BPD and the false ideas people have about it run your life. Don't forget that you didn't choose to have this problem.
What you can choose, though, is the right and healthiest way to deal with your symptoms and the best way for you to get rid of BPD.
You may feel like your moods, relationships, and actions are all out of control right now, but there is always hope. If you read this book, you've already taken one step toward getting better.
What's holding you back? If you want to take back control of your life from borderline personality disorder, you should read this book.