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Code Blues
A Surgeon's Journey With Depression
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Ever since Mel Nutig was a young boy in Coney Island, he knew he was profoundly sad. But for a long time, he hadn’t known the word “depression”— and once he had learned it years later, he had no money with which to seek treatment, nor any...
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Extinguished
A Fire Chief's Memoir
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What do you do when you lose more than you can afford, when the stable bridge you’ve been crossing suddenly gives way and you find yourself plummeting into a chasm of fear and self-doubt? After losing a dear friend and fellow firefighter to...
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The Addiction Recovery Handbook
Understanding Addiction and Culture and Creating a Prosperous Human Spirit
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What Richard Clark presents in The Addiction Recovery Handbook: Understanding Addiction and Culture is long overdue. Since 1939, Bill Wilson’s important and influential books, Alcoholics Anonymous and AA’s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, have...
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Depression, Mania, and Psychosis as My Path to Wholeness and Well-Being
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Mental health issues are a large part of and embedded in our society, and yet it is continually stigmatized. Furthermore, this stigma can create and reinforce mental health issues in itself. In Depression, Mania, and Psychosis as My Path to...
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The Power of Connection
How to process emotion in turbulent times.
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In life, there are many things we cannot control, leaving us feeling powerless and defeated. However, what you can control is how you deal with your emotions. In The Power of Connection, psychologist Dr. Bea Mackay explores mental health by...
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Fumes and Fine Dust
Working Under Chemical Assault: Neurological Effects
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In a sense this book wrote itself. Excerpts from journals written over nineteen years of workplace exposure to chemicals depict the images and struggles within a gradually deteriorating brain that had once been completely functional. The author's...
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Being A Teen Is Easy...Said No One Ever!
overcoming challenge
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It’s hard to take help when it’s offered to you—trusting someone just off their word isn't the easiest of things. When Bella Hachey was a teenager, she struggled with bullying, anxiety, OCD, depression, panic attacks, and seizures. At the time,...
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Secrets of Psychotherapy
An Insider's Report
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The Secrets of Psychotherapy Insider’s Report Includes: • Insider secrets as stepping stones on a therapeutic journey • A visual map of the primary targets of common psychotherapies • Exercises to sample therapeutic skills and experiences • The...
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The Compassionate Supervisor
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Right now more than ever before, in the aftermath of COVID health care workers need support. The Compassionate Supervisor advocates for a different type of leadership for front line workers, particularly those working in mental health. The book...
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Kicking ASSpergers
One Meltdown at a Time
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“I was tired of feeling this way. I was tired of everything, and I just wanted it to end . . . What would happen if I lit the entire place on fire? What if I just stayed perfectly still and did nothing?” Kicking ASSpergers is the triumphant...
