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Can my partner abuse me and still be a good parent? Should I stay with my partner for my children's sake? How should I talk to my children about the abuse and help them heal? Am I a bad mother? Mothers in physically or emotionally abusive relationships ask themselves these questions every day. Whether it's physical or "just" emotional abuse, whether it's aimed at them or you, whether they see or hear it, your kids need you. This book, the first ever...
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New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"For those struggling with relationship addiction, or "love addiction," a breakup can feel overwhelming. Letting Go of Your Ex offers evidence-based skills and techniques grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy to help combat symptoms such as emotional distress, impulsive behavior, and obsessive rumination. With this compassionate and nonjudgmental guide, readers will find the tools needed to recover from love addiction, create a new life without...
83) Breaking
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life.
Publisher
Drop and Give Me Twenty, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Five women veterans who have endured unimaginable trauma in service create a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of stranded homeless women veterans by entering into a competition that unexpectedly catalyzes moving events in their own lives to bring them full circle in a quest for healing and hope.
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"Ron Fournier, bestselling author, editor of the National Journal, and former head of the Associated Press's Washington Bureau, writes movingly of the outsized and crushing expectations that come from parents and with parenting today, through the lens ofhis relationship with his son, Tyler, who has mild Asperger's"--
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An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she'd gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning...
88) Burn rate
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Currency
Pub. Date
[2022]
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First edition.
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English
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"The co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder that nearly cost him everything in this gripping, radically honest memoir of mental illness and entrepreneurship. At twenty-eight, fresh from Stanford's MBA program and steeped in the move-fast-and-break-things ethos of Silicon Valley, Andy Dunn was on top of the world. He was building a new kind of startup-a digitally native, direct-to-consumer brand-out...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A literary sensation in Brazil and now a global publishing event, Luiz Schwarcz's wise and tender memoir bravely interrogates the story of his own ordeal of depression in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence-the long echo of the Holocaust across generations When Luiz Schwarcz was a child, he was told little about his grandfather and namesake Laaios-"Luiz" in Hungarian. Only later would he learn that his grandfather,...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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English
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"Just twenty-two years old, Su Meck was already married and the mother of two children in 1988 when a ceiling fan in the kitchen of her home fell from its mounting and struck her in the head. She survived the life-threatening swelling in her brain that resulted from the accident, but when she regained consciousness in the hospital the next day, she didn't know her own name. She didn't recognize a single family member or friend, she couldn't read or...
91) Chaos theory
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"Since Shelbi enrolled at Windward Academy as a senior and won't be there very long, she hasn't bothered making friends. What her classmates don't know about her can't be used to hurt her--you know, like it did at her last school. Andy Criddle is not okay. At all. He's had far too much to drink. Again. Which is bad. And things are about to get worse. When Shelbi sees Andy at his lowest, she can relate. So she doesn't resist reaching out. And there's...
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Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Toxic thoughts, depression, anxiety--our mental mess is frequently aggravated by a chaotic world and sustained by an inability to manage our runaway thoughts. But we shouldn't settle into this mental mess as if it's just our new normal. There's hope and help available to us--and the road to healthier thoughts and peak happiness may actually be shorter than you think.
Backed by clinical research and illustrated with compelling case studies, Dr. Caroline...
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
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English
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Addiction touches everyone. By some estimates, 25% of Americans might be addicts. What happens when the brain is on drugs? Discover the neural mechanisms that underlie the behaviors of addiction and see how drugs and activities like gambling can hijack the brain and lead to behavioral problems. Understanding addiction can motivate an addict to seek treatment and can lead loved ones to see the addict in a new way.
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Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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"Whew! They going to send around here and tie you up and drag you off to Milledgeville. Them fat blue police chasing tomcats around alleys." -Berenice in The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
A scathing and original look at the racist origins of the field of modern psychiatry, told through the story of what was once the largest mental institution in the world, by the prize-winning author of Memoir of a Race Traitor
After a decade of research,...
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Sounds True
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"After a brief crash course in the latest research on trauma and the mind-body connection, we learn to access our innate resilience through body-based practices, mindful awareness, and generating compassion for ourselves and others"--
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