mental illness

While panic disorder can be quite frightening and worrisome, it is a manageable condition. With diagnosis and treatment, a person with the disorder can live a happy, normal life.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, PTSD is a mental health disorder caused by experiencing or witnessing a shocking or life-threatening event. When PTSD is not carefully managed with awareness, therapy, or medication, it can negatively impact all areas of a person's life.

OCD is a mental illness that affects about one in forty adults and one in one hundred children in the United States. The disorder exhibits two major aspects which give it its name: obsessions, which are recurring unwanted thoughts, urges, or mental images that cause a person anxiety and distress; and compulsions, repetitive behaviors that a person feels compelled to perform. OCD sufferers experience obsessions, compulsions, or both at the same time, and may often suffer from other conditions, such as a state of severe depression.

"A beautifully illustrated memoir and empathetic investigation into a family's history with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and one woman's quest to find healing among what remains"--.

Hoping for a fresh start when his therapist recommends a part-time job, seventeen-year-old Joel forges a deep bond with a smart-mouthed co-worker before circumstances force him to share the truth about his past.

Can seventeen-year-old Jonah save his family restaurant from ruin, his mother from her sadness, and his danger-seeking girlfriend Vivi from herself?.

"Luna has always wanted to be a therapy dog . . . Now she's a whisker away from reaching her fifty-visit pin that will make it official . . . Like the moon, Luna shows different faces at different times. And her clients each have different needs; Beatrice is tangled in knots of anger, Caleb rushes like a waterfall, Amelia carries fear heavy like a shadow, and Hector is quiet as a rock"--Provided by publisher.

"This . . . guide to well-being, self-care, and mental health is full of ideas to help you feel happy and healthy"--Back cover.

"Chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma-from the eighteenth century, through America's major wars, and into today's high-tech economy . . . [the author] infuses the book with the personal history of his family's four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather's analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter's experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, . . . explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma"--Provided by publisher.

Upon her grandmother's death, seventeen-year-old Cat must move to New Orleans with her bipolar mother, where she is haunted by strangely familiar visitors who know more about her than they should.