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The
Bipolar Advantage
by Tom Wootton
Unorthodox, but wise perspectives that will help you look at your
life in a fresh light... A bipolar must. --Peter Russell (Author
From Science to God, The Global Brain Awakens)
Product Description
The Bipolar Advantage is a revelation. It is one man's journey through
the darkness and light of the bipolar condition to a place of spiritual
joy, functionality and excellence that holds lessons for everyone
with a diagnosis of bipolar.
Raw, honest and brazen, The Bipolar Advantage draws its examples
from the real-life experiences of its author, other people with
a bipolar diagnosis and those who have relationships with bipolar
people. Pulling no punches, Tom Wootton paints a realistic picture
of the bipolar condition in its many faces, then gently guides the
reader through the steps necessary to lead an introspective life
that greatly ameliorates those symptoms, with the ultimate goal
of helping bipolar people gain control of their lives.
Tom takes the reader on a journey through the good and bad aspects
of bipolar, transforming negatives into positives and nurturing
a mental environment where bipolar people can reshape their views
of their condition and move fluidly from concepts of illness to
excellence.
Ultimately, The Bipolar Advantage will stand as a guide book for
those who don't want to accept a diminished view of their lives
after a diagnosis of bipolar. It s a road map to wellness and strength
that will stand the test of time and the changing winds of popular
bipolar treatment modalities.
Buy the: Book
 The
Depression Advantage
by Tom Wootton
Unorthodox, but wise perspectives that will help you look at your
life in a fresh light... A bipolar must. --Peter Russell (Author
From Science to God, The Global Brain Awakens)
Product Description
The Bipolar Advantage is a revelation. It is one man's journey through
the darkness and light of the bipolar condition to a place of spiritual
joy, functionality and excellence that holds lessons for everyone
with a diagnosis of bipolar.
Raw, honest and brazen, The Bipolar Advantage draws its examples
from the real-life experiences of its author, other people with
a bipolar diagnosis and those who have relationships with bipolar
people. Pulling no punches, Tom Wootton paints a realistic picture
of the bipolar condition in its many faces, then gently guides the
reader through the steps necessary to lead an introspective life
that greatly ameliorates those symptoms, with the ultimate goal
of helping bipolar people gain control of their lives.
Tom takes the reader on a journey through the good and bad aspects
of bipolar, transforming negatives into positives and nurturing
a mental environment where bipolar people can reshape their views
of their condition and move fluidly from concepts of illness to
excellence.
Ultimately, The Bipolar Advantage will stand as a guide book for
those who don't want to accept a diminished view of their lives
after a diagnosis of bipolar. It s a road map to wellness and strength
that will stand the test of time and the changing winds of popular
bipolar treatment modalities.
Buy the: Book
 How
Children Become Violent: Why Disrupted Attachment Patterns Trigger
Pathological Behavior - (Professional Version - red cover)
by Kathryn Siefert
This book is written for professionals
working in the mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice/criminal
justice, and research fields, as well as students studying these
fields and individuals affected by violence. The author has made
the book readable for anyone who is interested in this area or is
raising a child with attachment problems. Her goal is to make a
case for the fact that juvenile and adult violence begins very early
in life, and it is both preventable and treatable. Her research
and experience, gained through over 30 years in this profession,
will demonstrate that society must intervene early in the lives
of children living in violent, neglectful, criminal, and substance-dependent
families. Appropriate care, safety, and health for all children
is in the world-s best interest. This is not to justify dangerous
behavior by adults. Both adults and adolescents must take responsibility
for their behavior. However, if we have the capacity to assess,
prevent, and treat violence and sexual offending, and to prevent
future offending behaviors, to not do so is a crime. Punishment
has never been an adequate answer, for in the United
States, it is often puritanical and usually useless in protecting
society. That is also not to say that dangerous people should not
be kept away from society. But while they are sequestered from the
general public, we need to do what we can to ensure that they do
not repeat their mistakes. This is why the author and her colleagues
are in the preventative and treatment fields of psychology trying
to advance. Social services, juvenile justice, criminal justice,
public policy, mental health and addictions treatment, and forensic
hospitals need major reform - reform that is based on research and
not revenge. A system that does the same old thing and expects different
and better results is itself ill. However, with the correct intervention,
this cycle can be broken, which creates a safer environment for
all of society.
Buy the: Book
History of Swimming
"This is a riveting memoir, sensitive, wise and unsparing."
-- Diane Sawyer
The History of Swimming details author Kim Powers' frantic search
for his twin brother Tim -- his best friend, his greatest enemy
-- who disappears from Manhattan one weekend in his late twenties.
Kim -- almost mystically -- imagines that the clues to Tim's whereabouts
have been planted in a series of letters written by Tim over the
years, part of an ongoing cat-and-mouse game between the two brothers.
Now, Kim uses the letters as a sort of roadmap that takes him back
to Texas, the setting of their greatest triumphs and tragedies:
their mother's death, Tim's nervous breakdown, first loves, coming
out, a best friend's brutal rape. But is it a race against time
for somebody still alive, or already dead?
Buy the: Book
 Divided
Minds
This harrowing but arresting memoir—written
in alternating voices by identical twins, now in their 50s—reveals
how devastating schizophrenia is to both the victim and those who
love her. The condition, which afflicts Pamela (an award-winning
poet), can be controlled with drugs and psychiatry, but never cured.
When the twins were young, Pamela always outshone Carolyn. But in
junior high, Pamela was beset by fears and began a lifelong pattern
of cutting and burning herself. After the two entered Brown University,
Pamela's decline into paranoia accelerated until she attempted suicide.
During the ensuing years of Pamela's frequent breakdowns and hospitalizations,
Carolyn became a psychiatrist, married and had two children. Empathetic
and concerned, Carolyn nonetheless conveys her overwhelming frustration.
and occasional alienation from her sister, when she is unable to
help. Pamela's schizophrenia caused their father to sever his relationship
with her. Remarkably descriptive, Pamela's account details how it
feels to hear voices and to suspect evil in everyone. Though she
struggles with her medications, Pamela remains a committed poet
and is now reconciled with her father and close to her twin.
Buy the: Book
 72
Hour Hold
This powerful story of a mother trying
to cope with her daughter's bipolar disorder reads at times like
a heightened procedural. Keri, the owner of an upscale L.A. resale
clothing shop, is hopeful as daughter Trina celebrates her 18th
birthday and begins a successful-seeming new treatment. But as Trina
relapses into mania, both their worlds spiral out of control. An
ex-husband who refuses to believe their daughter is really sick,
the stigmas of mental illness in the black community, a byzantine
medico-insurance system—all make Keri increasingly desperate
as Trina deteriorates (requiring, repeatedly, a "72 hour hold"
in the hospital against her will). The ins and outs of working the
mental health system take up a lot of space, but Moore Campbell
is terrific at describing the different emotional gradations produced
by each new circle of hell. There's a lesbian subplot, and a radical
(and expensive) group that offers treatment off the grid may hold
promise. The author of a well-reviewed children's book on how to
cope with a parent's mental illness, Moore Campbell (What You Owe
Me) is on familiar ground; she gives Keri's actions and decisions
compelling depth and detail, and makes Trina's illness palpable.
While this feels at times like a mission-driven book, it draws on
all of Moore Campbell's nuance and style.
Buy the: Book
A Beautiful Mind
If you've read the book, see the movie. If you've seen the movie,
read the book. Both received NAMI Special Awards in 2002 for the
Greatest Contribution to Public Education About Mental illness.
The biography of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash charts
a path of struggle and recovery from schizophrenia. The Academy
Award winning movie is still changing public perceptions of mental
illness forever.
Buy the: Book
| VHS
| DVD
The Hours
Winner of NAMI's 2003 Oustanding Media Award for a Dramatic Motion
Picture; Nicole Kidman received an Academy Award for her performance
as Virginia Woolf. An authentic, balanced, although tragic portrayal
of mental illness, emphasizing individual dignity and the element
of choice in embracing life.
Buy the: VHS
| DVD
A Caveman's Valentine
Winner of NAMI's 2001 Outstanding Media Award for a Dramatic Motion
Picture (starring Samuel L. Jackson). Even before A Beautiful Mind,
this was the movie that achieved a breakthrough in its heroic portrayal
of a man with schizophrenia who solves a murder mystery. It also
contrasts with the A Beautiful Mind in the method through which
schizophrenia is portrayed.
Buy the: VHS
| DVD
My Sister's Keeper
Winner of NAMI's 2001 Oustanding Media Award for a Television Movie,
starring Kathy Bates and Elizabeth Perkins. It offers an uplifting,
non-stereotyped view of a person with mental illness and an at times
difficult, but loving relationship with her sister. Based on the
book My Sister's Keeper: Learning to Cope with A Sibling's Mental
Illness.
Buy the: VHS
| Book
Nature Lessons: A Novel
Winner of one of NAMI's 2003 Literary Awards. A woman returns to
South Africa to search for her missing mother and truths about her
family under apartheid. It explores the paranoia that can be rooted
either in mental illness or an oppressive political regime. What
is "real" and what is "paranoid" may be confused
or depend on a person's class or racial perspective, and their impact
affects a child's past, present, and future.
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the book!
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From A Decade
Gone Mad
Winner of one of NAMI's 2003 Literary Awards. One year after Patty
Hearst was kidnapped and robbed a bank in 1974, the author writes,
"my mother lost her mind and kidnapped my sister and me to
our family cottage in rural, coastal Virginia. " She believed
they had been inducted into a secret army. "Trusted with setting
up a field hospital, we lived in that cottage for over three years.
" Written from the perspective of an adult child of a parent
with mental illness, it explores how relatives, neighbors and the
medical and legal systems failed to provide the help they needed.
Buy
the book!
I Know This Much Is True
An epic novel covering three dysfunctional generations. A 40 year-old
man whose twin has schizophrenia struggles with issues of identity,
emotion, alienation, and renewal. His twin is both sympathetic and
significant in offering perspective on events. Dramatic tension
is mixed with humor and a reasonably happy ending.
Buy
the book!
Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke
and A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illness
One book tells actress Patty Duke's story while the other shares
information about bipolar disorder, based on her first-hand experience.
Read separately or together.
Buy: Call
Me Anna | Brilliant
Madness
9 Highland Road: Sane Living for the
Mentally Ill
A non-fiction account of a group home in Glen Cove, New York, including
intimate portraits of the resident, their crises and therapy as well
as the ignorance and fears of wealthy neighbors in the community who
tried to prevent the home from opening. The author is a reporter for
The New York Times and winner of the 1999 NAMI Outstanding Media Award
for investigative reporting.
Buy
the book!
Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface
A psychologist's highly readable memoir of her year-long descent
and recovery from depression--including electroconvulsive therapy
(ECT). Marked by wit, candor, irony and hope. Not many books about
depression cause a reader to laugh out loud -- while also feeling
the author's pain -- but this one does.
Buy
the book!
Additional Book Suggestions
Unholy
Ghost: Writers on Depression
by Neil Casey
An
Unquiet Mind
by Kay Redfield Jamison
Don't
Call Me Nuts: Coping with the Stigma of Mental Illness
by Patrick Corrigan and Robert Lundin
Imagining
Robert: My Brother, Madness and Survival
by Jay Neugeboren
Transforming
Madness: New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness
by Jay Neugeboren
The
Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
by Lori Schiller and Amanda Bennett
The
Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
by Andrew Solomon
The
Day the Voices Stopped: A Journey from Madness to Hope
by Ken Steele and Claire Berman
Darkness
Visible: A Memoir of Madness
by William Styron
Telling
is Risky Business: The Experience of Mental Illness Stigma
by Otto F. Wahl
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