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Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia

By: Allen, Sandra

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 446005

ISBN: 1501134035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dazzlingly, daringly written, marrying the thoughtful originality of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts with the revelatory power of Neurotribes and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, this propulsive, stunning book illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before.

Writer Sandra Allen did not know their uncle Bob very well. As a child, Sandy had been told Bob was "crazy," that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longe...
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Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia

By: Allen, Sandra

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 409292

ISBN: 1501134035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety

By: Andrea Petersen

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Crown: May-18

Seller ID: 469510

ISBN: 553418599

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression

By: Brooke Shields

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Hyperion: Jan-00

Seller ID: 132140

ISBN: 1401301894

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this compelling memoir, Brooke Shields talks candidly about her experience with postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, and provides millions of women with an inspiring example of recovery.

When Brooke Shields welcomed her newborn daughter, Rowan Francis, into the world, something unexpected followed--a crippling depression. Now, for the first time ever, in Down Came the Rain, Brooke talks about the trials, tribulations, and finally the triumphs that occurred before, during, and after the birth of her daughter.
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Brian on Fire

By: Cahalan, Susannah

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 397348

ISBN: 1476754381

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Brain on Fire

By: Cahalan, Susannah

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Apr-16

Seller ID: 430457

ISBN: 1451621388

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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 of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic...
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Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

By: Casey, Joan Frances

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 363246

ISBN: 449907325

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hearing Voices, Living Fully

By: Claire Bien

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers: Jun-16

Seller ID: 438004

ISBN: 1785927183

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When Claire Bien first began hearing voices, they were infrequent, benign and seemingly just curious about her life and the world around her. But the more attention Claire paid, the more frequently they began to speak, and the darker their intentions became... Despite escalating paranoia, an initial diagnosis of Schizophreniform Disorder and taking medication with debilitating side effects, Claire learned to face her demons and manage her condition without the need for long-term medication. In this gripping memoir, Claire recounts with eloquence her most troubled times. She explains how she ma...
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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

By: Daphne Merkin

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: Feb-17

Seller ID: 474177

ISBN: 374140367

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

By: Earley, Pete

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 403170

ISBN: 425213897

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Prozac Nation

By: Elizabeth Wurtzel

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books: Oct-95

Seller ID: 433045

ISBN: 1573225126

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"A book that became a cultural touchstone." -- The New Yorker

Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. In this famous memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation is a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era for readers of Girl, Interrupted and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar.
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

By: Jamison, Kay Redfield

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: October 1996

Seller ID: 77175

ISBN: 0679763309

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR

In her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness.

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide.

He...
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: Oct-96

Seller ID: 487977

ISBN: 679763309

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Songs of Three Islands: A Story of Mental Illness in an Iconic American Family

By: Millicent Monks

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Atlas: Jun-10

Seller ID: 446075

ISBN: 1934633348

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Their fabled wealth enabled them to amass great houses and even private islands, but it was a dynasty torn apart by a succession of tragedies: suicide, alcoholism, and extremities of mental illness were passed on from generation to generation. For the women in the family, the consequences of this legacy have been painful. After a difficult childhood, the author s daughter was diagnosed at the age of eighteen with what is now known as borderline personality disorder, a debilitating mental illness that was for the parents in the words of the novelist Sebastian Faulks "a public shame as well as p...
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