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You Mean I Don't Have to Feel This Way?: New Help for Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction
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Colette Dowling watched depression destroy her husband's life and leap to the next generation to nearly destroy her daughter's--until dramatic help was found. Now her ground-breaking book offer the same lifesaving help to the millions who still suffer depression and related disorders--which include panic, anxiety, phobias, PMS, alcohol and drug abuse, bulimia, migraine, and obesity. You Mean I Don't Have To Feel This Way? documents the latest research that links depression and related disorders to a physical cause and shows why willpower, understanding, and psychotherapy so often fail to work. It explains the state-of-the-art medical treatments that can bring about dramatic improvement--and often full recovery--within weeks. This important book includes: startling new links between eating disorders, addiction, and depression. How to recognize the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders. Vital information about new treatments for depressed children and adolescents. A guide to breakthrough drugs for treating mood, anxiety, and eating disorders. The newest research on the use of antidepressants to prevent substance-abuse relapse. How to find expert help and evaluate the treatment you are given. Upbeat, filled with hope and warmth, Colette Dowling's book will change minds and save lives.
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Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living With Dissociative Identity Disorder
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(New Harbinger Publications) Author is a clinical psychologist living in San Diego, CA. Self-help guide for persons with dissociative identity disorder (DID) or multiple personality disorder (MPD). Discusses skills and strategies to manage living with these disorders, the positive aspects, what to expect from therapy, and how DID affects lives.
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Got Parts? An Insider's Guide to Managing Life Successfully with Dissociative Identity Disorder (New Horizons in Therapy)
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"I strongly recommend this book as a easily read, straightforward and insightful recovery tool for my clients with DID."
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The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook
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Finally, a book that addresses your concerns about DID From Eve to Sybil to Truddi Chase, the media have long chronicled the lives of people with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder. The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook serves as a much-needed bridge for communication between the dissociative individual and therapists, family, and friends who also have to learn to deal with the effects of this truly astonishing disorder.
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Dying to Be Thin: Understanding and Defeating Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia--A Practical, Lifesaving Guide
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There are over two million anorexics and bulimics in the U.S. today, and the numbers are growing to epidemic proportions. At last, two experts who have helped hundred of anorexics and bulimics return to healthy lives explain in full detail the causes and symptoms of these disorders, and how and where to find help. With case histories and first-person accounts of patients, their physicians, families, and friends, Dying To Be Thin is the complete resource for anyone concerned with these dangerous disorders. With clarity, sympathy, and wisdom, Dying To Be Thin tells you: * What bulimia is and how people get hooked on a binge-purge cycle * The invisible causes of anorexia nervosa * Medical effects of anorexia and bulimia * Why many eating disorders go unnoticed by parents, teachers, and friends-and how you can recognize them * How you, or someone you know, can stop focusing on food and reawaken to the world of feelings, belonging, and love * Where to go for professional help-with listings of national and local support groups, treatment centers, and more.
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The Body Betrayed: A Deeper Understanding of Women, Eating Disorders, and Treatment
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Clearly and sensitively written, this exciting book covers all aspects of diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders. Zerbe, an internationally esteemed feminist psychiatrist, interlaces intelligent discussion with stories about individuals who have valiantly, though often at first reluctantly, engaged in recovery. Particularly appropriate for parents and loved ones who want a thorough understanding of eating disorders, The Body Betrayed specifically addresses mother/daughter and father daughter relationships, as well as explaining how a child with an eating disorder affects family dynamics.
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The Eating Disorder Sourcebook : A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments, and Prevention of Eating Disorders
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The author, a recovered anorexic and eating disorder specialist, provides a unique personal and professional viewpoint on eating disorders, examining individual and family dynamics and helping readers assess symptoms which may indicate problems. From approaching a troubled eater to considering different solutions, this goes further than most in providing a sympathetic view of eating disorders and their diagnoses.
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The Secret Language of Eating Disorders: How You Can Understand and Work to Cure Anorexia and Bulimia
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What makes Claude-Pierre's treatment of anorexia and bulimia revolutionary? Perhaps it's that the astonishingly high success rate of even the most chronic cases at Claude-Pierre's Montreux Clinic (only sufferers near death who have not been helped by doctors and hospitals are admitted) defies the common misconception that eating disorders are incurable. Claude-Pierre has made a personal commitment to dispel this damaging myth. Having cured her own two daughters of anorexia, you might say hers was a vested interest. The Secret Language of Eating Disorders reveals the details of Claude-Pierre's unique program.
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Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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Eating disorders are frequently written about but rarely with such immediacy and candor. Hornbacher was only 23 years old when she wrote this book so there is no sense of her having distanced herself from the disease or its lingering effects on her. This, combined with her talent for writing, gives readers a real sense of the horror of anorexia and bulimia and their power to dominate an individual's life. The author was bulimic as a fourth grader and anorexic at age 15. She was hospitalized several times and institutionalized once. By 1993 she was attending college and working as a journalist. Her weight had dropped to 52 pounds and doctors in the emergency room gave her only a week to live. She left the hospital, decided she wanted to live, then walked back and signed herself in for treatment. This is not a quick or an easy read. Hornbacher talks about possible causes for the illnesses and describes feeling isolated, being in complete denial, and not wanting to change or fearing change, until she nearly died. Young people will connect with this compelling and authentic story.
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Getting Control: Overcoming Your Obsessions and Compulsions (Plume)
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Six million Americans suffer from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and they know firsthand the often devastating effects it has on their lives. Some symptoms, such as the nagging feeling you have left the stovetop burner on, can be mildly distracting. Yet others, like compulsive hand washing, the inability to throw anything out, or nerve-racking feelings of guilt, can be completely paralyzing and make it nearly impossible for sufferers to lead healthy lives. Dr. Baer gives readers the tools to assess their own symptoms, set goals, and create therapeutic programs for themselves. He also helps readers differentiate between OCD and other psychological illnesses such as depression. From the latest treatments to important facts on the medications currently available and how they work, Getting Control is thorough, concise, and positive--a lifesaver for anyone whose well-being is affected by OCD.
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