Mental Health

Trauma
I'm Sorry
by Jay Krunszyinsky
Psychiatric illnesses can occur as a result of trauma. Have you ever suffered a traumatic event in your life? People who suffer traumatic life events such as abuse, disaster, abduction, or the ravages of war can also adopt irrational thought processes due

Parents with Mental Illness
by Rethink
Being a parent with mental illness can be both challenging and rewarding. People often stigmatise and assume that children born to people with mental illness will experience social and emotional difficulties, that they may be abused or neglected

Childhood Severe Mental Illness
by Rethink
It is easy for parents to identify their child's physical needs: nutriticous food, warm clothes when it's cold, bedtime at a reasonable hour. However, a child's mental and emotional needs may not be as obvious. The basics for a child's good mental health

Introducton
Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisit
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
We all love ourselves. That seems to be such an instinctively true statement that we do not bother to examine it more thoroughly. In our daily lives – in love, in business, in other areas of life – we act on this premise. Yet, upon closer insp

Practical Tools for Reducing Anxiety
by Mark Fourman, LLP
War, terrorist attacks, a new deadly virus, job and family stress. Let's face it: most of us have something to be anxious about these days. Anxiety is fear about the future that we keep experiencing for long enough that it becomes a habit.

Agoraphobia
by Loren Parks
Agoraphobia is a severely debilitating psychological condition that arises from the subconscious. In other words, one does it to himself, unconsciously. I have long observed that the subconscious just loves to scare the dickens out of its owner

Counseling : When to Seek Expert Help

Though counseling is well known and proved to help people with their issues, many still hesitate to receive expert advice from counselors. Are you in need of expert advice? The following information will help you understand what counseling is and how it c

The Biology of Everyday Life
Shadow Syndromes: The Mild Forms of Major Mental Disorders That Sabotage Us
by John J. Ratey, M.D., Catherine Johnson, Ph.D.
Neuropsychiatry is now discovering that a great deal of what we thought was due to (poor) upbringing in fact is heavily influenced by the genetics, structure, and neurochemistry of the brain.

A New Paradigm in Clearing Old Issues: Energy Psychology

We are energetic beings, lattice works of force fields. Our bodies have a profound electrical nature. Shuffle your feet across a carpet and then touch an item made of metal. We feel it! Our electrical systems are vital to our health. About 5000 years ago

Research Into Mental Illness
by Rethink
There is an enormous amount of research into severe mental illness. Here we summarise a small amount of this research, focussing upon those areas most frequently asked about. If you are looking for research on a specific topic or you need in depth

How Is Mental Illness Diagnosed?
by Rethink
At the moment, there are no tests for mental illnesses. They cannot be diagnosed by checking the blood or body fluids of the person experiencing symptoms. There is hope that in the future scans of the brain, or some other test, will be used to confirm the

Learn as much as possible about how your brain works
Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot : Unleashing Your Brain's Potential
by Richard M. Restak, M.D.
This is the most important factor in getting smart and staying smart. In order to do this, you don't have to become a neurologist or subscribe to scholarly journals on neuroscience (the study of the brain at every operating level ranging from everyday

The Seventh Sense
The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us
by Martha Stout, Ph.D.
This morning, Joe, a thirty-year-old attorney, is running five minutes late for an extremely important meeting that, with or without him, will start promptly at eight o'clock. He needs to keep up a good impression with the more senior members of his firm

Where He Waits
Prozac Diary
by Lauren Slater, Ph.D.
Today millions of people take Prozac, but Lauren Slater was one of the first. In this rich and beautifully written memoir, she describes what it's like to spend most of your life feeling crazy-and then to wake up one day and find yourself in the strange

Down Syndrome Facts: Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment
by National Institute of Health
Named after John Langdon Down, the first physician to identify the syndrome, Down syndrome is the most frequent genetic cause of mild to moderate mental retardation and associated medical problems and occurs in one out of 800 live births

Into the Sun
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
I was standing with my head back, one pigtail caught between my teeth, listening to the jet overhead. The noise was loud, unusually so, which meant that it was close. My elementary school was near Andrews Air Force Base, just outside Washington

Living With Severe Mental Illness
by Rethink
For many people, accepting that they have a severe mental health problem is very difficult. But accepting this fact is essential to beginning the process of learning to live with the condition. Psychiatrists call this developing insight.

Finding the right medication. Why take medication?
by Rethink
One of the main treatments used to combat the symptoms of mental illness is medication in various forms. Psychiatric drugs can be given in the form of tablets, syrups or injections. They act on the chemical balance in the brain so that thoughts, feelings

Are Your Emotions True or False?

We're in a bad mood epidemic, but Julia Ross's plan provides a natural cure. Drawing on thirty years of experience, she presents breakthrough solutions to overcoming depression, anxiety, irritability, stress, and other negative emotional states

Introduction
Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
by Steve Salerno
For decades I have been tracking the self-help movement without fully realizing its place in the zeitgeist, even though I've written often about its component parts. My first book, in 1985, described the mainstreaming of veteran sales and motivational