Download or read book Butterflies in the Psych Ward written by Autumn Marie and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butterflies in the Psych Ward is a collection of poems that focus on themes of love, loss, mental health, and human observations. This collection explores unrequited affection, finding beauty in the mundane, along with profound realizations urging readers to dive into the highs and lows of understanding oneself within their world.
Download or read book The Butterfly House written by Katrine Engberg and published by Gallery/Scout Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detectives Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner from the #1 international bestseller The Tenant—which New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs heralded as a “stunning debut”—return in this compulsively readable thriller as they race to solve a series of sordid murders linked to some of the most vulnerable patients in a Danish hospital. Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing. But in the coronary care unit at one of Copenhagen’s leading medical centers, a nurse fills a syringe with an overdose of heart medication and stealthily enters the room of an older male patient. Six days earlier, a paperboy on his route in central Copenhagen stumbles upon a macabre find: the naked body of a dead woman, lying in a fountain with arms marked with small incisions. Cause of death? Exsanguination—the draining of all the blood in her body. Clearly, this is no ordinary murder. Lead Investigator Jeppe Kørner, recovering from a painful divorce and in the throes of a new relationship, takes on the investigation. His partner, Anette Werner, now on maternity leave after an unexpected pregnancy, is restless at home with a demanding newborn and an equally demanding husband. While Jeppe pounds the streets looking for answers, Anette decides to do a little freelance sleuthing. But operating on her own exposes her to dangers she can’t even begin to fathom. As the investigation ventures into dark corners, it uncovers the ambition and greed that festers beneath the surface of caregiving institutions—all the more shocking for their depravity—and what Jeppe and Anette discover will turn their blood as cold as ice….
Download or read book The Butterfly Lampshade written by Aimee Bender and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents -- her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact -- she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her, and what they say about her own place in the world. As Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie's past glow with the intensity of childhood perception, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? Told in the lush, lilting prose that led the San Francisco Chronicle to say Aimee Bender is "a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language," The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world, and a broken love between mother and child.
Download or read book How Now Butterfly written by Charity Lee and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother recounts her unthinkable experience after her thirteen-year-old son murders his little sister—and her struggle to emerge from devastation. Losing a young daughter to murder is the worst nightmare that a mother could possibly imagine—but what if the killer was her son? Charity Lee was thrust into this unimaginable situation when her thirteen-year-old son, Paris, murdered her beloved four-year-old daughter, Ella. Charity goes through intense grief at the loss of her daughter, while at the same time trying to understand why her son would have done something as horrific as this, and how she could have missed the signs that Paris was a true psychopath. While barely holding herself together throughout her intense grief, Charity is still a mother and feels a need to advocate for her son to receive appropriate treatment while incarcerated, while at the same time trying to ensure he stays in prison so he can never hurt someone again. Charity still loves her son and craves a connection with him despite all he has done. Because of her experiences, she rebuilds her life and starts a non-profit to help other families of victims, as well as offenders. This book is a meditation on grief, loss, and forgiveness unlike any other. It’s also an inspirational story of a true survivor. How Now, Butterfly? is a haunting memoir that no reader will soon forget.
Download or read book One Step From Insanity written by Lady Charmaine Day and published by Lady Charmaine Day. This book was released on 2008-02-06 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People often say I almost lost my mind, or I'm about to lose my mind. You make me feel crazy or insane. Yet few people have actually lost it...went crazy. What does an insane person think about? What do you contemplate as your mind recovers from being insane,what thoughts flow through it? These are the actual words that I wrote while insane. Welcome to the inside of my brain : )
Download or read book Butterfly Woman written by Emily Lutze and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Rush is just three years old when her father leaves; leading to events which will mark the end of her innocence. After her parents' divorce her mother, suffering for over a decade from an undiagnosed case of Bipolar Disorder, makes some very dangerous choices resulting in a chaotic life for her and her children. During this dark time Hannah is violated by her stepfather and life takes a disastrous turn. Trying to recapture her forgotten innocence, she struggles to keep her head above water while life continues to throw harsh challenges in her direction. Several times, she attempts to give up on the life that she has been cursed with, but a vision of her beautiful future always lights the way. Her journey is a tapestry of nightmares and transcendent beauty illustrated beautifully by Lutze's ability to capture the human spirit delicately with her poetic narrative. Both heartbreaking and inspirational, Butterfly Woman provides for readers an intimate look at the psyche of an abused child and the passage to adulthood. Detailing one woman's battle, her spirit of evolution and survival as a woman, this novel sends a message of hope for all women.
Download or read book From a Caterpillar to a Butterfly the Transformation from Victim to Victorious written by Angel Power and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the prequel to “The Darkness & The Light”, also by Angel Power. These are the stories that go with the poetry. It is creatively broken down into metaphorical phases of a young woman’s transformation. Based on a true story, except for one fictitious scene that was written for therapeutic purposes, it begins with the end and ends with the beginning. Candid and raw, it exposes the dark reality of her tragic experiences and shares how she found the resilience to survive and transform. It will take you on a journey through overcoming exploitation, abuse, human trafficking, addictions, poverty, mental health challenges, the loss of a child, and more. It will explain stigma and the corruption of the social systems that claim to protect the most vulnerable. This will enlighten the reader to systemic injustices and the impacts on our vulnerable youth when protection is needed most. There is often prejudice toward high-risk youth and the challenges they face, especially those trying to cope with unmet needs. This book will bring validation to the reader from young adult to the guardians trying to protect them, as well as those who work in the field of trying to help them. It exposes some of the power imbalances and barriers that many women of all ages can face. In these confusing and scary times, exploitation continues to be on the rise and stigma still exists. It is hoped that this book will empower the victimized to find healthy coping mechanisms and natural ways of self-healing. For those who wish to protect them it may also provide some insights into never giving up the good fight that it takes in order to do so.
Download or read book Psych Ward written by Ross Alastair Wilson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-12-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a strange book. Make no bones about it, it's weird. What can you do? I suppose you don't have to read it. But then what would be the point of all the words sitting there if you don't even bother to read them eh? I don't know, what are you like? Thinking of jumping ship already? Lightweight. Okay. So...this book is weird, it's strange but, hopefully, it's fun! Good! Let it be so! Okie dokie then. That'll do for a prologue won't it? I don't know, do I have to say anything else? What goes into a prologue then? It's sort of the stuff before the main stuff isn't it? Um, well, er, I can't be arsed! Oh yeah...um...no... I forgot. Oh well, without further ado... hold on, I've just thought of something, yeah... SO you lot are lucky in a way, because I've read this book loooooads of times and the words by this point have kind of lost all meaning - but for you they probably still have that "new book" feeling to them. Good for you!
Download or read book The Heartache No One Sees written by Sheila Walsh and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2007-05-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you belong to the "silent community of the broken," hiding your pain under a veneer of busyness and perfection? Sheila Walsh, best-selling author, popular Women of Faith® speaker, and gifted recording artist, has a God-given passion for reaching out to women who are privately carrying around broken hearts. she knows what they are going through because she used to be one of them. Are you lonely but too ashamed to open up? Are you a victim of well-meaning friends who have told you to get over it? Have you tried to heal yourself, to tidy up your pain with a quick fix? Is there a voice inside you saying that you will never change, that you are not worthy of God's love, that you will always be stuck as you are right now? In The Heartache No One Sees, Sheila shows you why some people are able to access and maintain an absolute hope that cannot be shaken?while others lose it like the morning mist. You're invited to join her on a prayer-filled, God-seeking journey to understand how to live in this world, with all its potential for hurt, pain, and fear, and still experience a deep healing that you are able to hold on to, no matter what life throws at you.
Download or read book From a Coccoon to a Butterfly written by Rebecca Pizarro-Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true account of my becoming a homeless women. I kept this fact a secret from my friends and co-workers. The manager of a five star property in Manhattan without a home to call her own. I did not have a shopping cart, my cart was a brand new car. A women full of hate and bitterness, blinded by the desire of being loved, but not knowing how to achieve it.
Download or read book From a Caterpillar to a Butterfly written by Barbara Crincoli and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling for identity is something we all go through. Some of us struggle more than others, but in the final analysis, our choices result in consequences, good or bad. However, it does not mean that we know who we are. It just means that we want to be the best "me" we can be. Being satisfied with where you are can cause stagnation. Being willing to forge ahead in spite of obstacles makes you stronger. Not that we should not be content with ourselves; we should. However, our highest goal should be to have the best that God has to offer us. Choose to take God's roadmap for your life, not what society says your life should be. Journey with Barbara as she shares her life and her heart in her struggle for identity.
Download or read book ResA Life course of an invisible butterfly written by ResA. K.K. and published by novum publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I want to be weightless. To finally be rid of the hidden heaviness," ResA notes in her diary. Her heart's desire is to offer her two daughters the protection and security in her home that she was denied in her own childhood. However, her plans to spend her life with her two children and her beloved husband falter several times. The challenges that arise often seem insurmountable. ResA fights through her entire life with iron discipline and as an invisible butterfly. But she first has to find the answer to the question of whether the hardships are worth it.
Download or read book Dream Lives of Butterflies written by Jaimee Wriston Colbert and published by BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "21 linked short stories set in 20th and 21st century St. Louis, Missouri, Hawai'i, and Illinois. Characters include a lepidopterist and her mother with dementia; a pregnant teenager; a bipolar man and the homeless, aspiring model he shelters; a middle-aged woman stalking her estranged husband responding to Jesus; and an agoraphobic Hawaiian psychic searching for her drug-addicted son"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Jesus and the Butterfly written by Maureen Gaynor and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book After losing her younger brother to suicide, Alex, a resident in emergency medicine, suspends her residency at Tufts Medical Center. Alex is a brilliant doctor, but in her eyes, she had failed her brother, and her parents. Stuck in a haze of self-doubt, one summer’s night on Duxbury Beach, she and a couple of friends discuss how Alex can move forward and she is keen on the idea of driving cross country, alone. Before her first night ends at a campground in Pennsylvania, she cross paths with Jesus, and for the rest of her journey, Jesus challenges Alex in every way possible to think of herself differently, to look at faith differently, to look at the world different and all through Alex’s journey of restoration, she bears witness to Jesus’ incredible gifts. About the Author Maureen lives in Greenville, Rhode Island. Born with athetoid cerebral palsy, she graduated from Roger Williams University, majoring in architectural studies. With limited fine motor control in her hands, Maureen uses a headpointer to type. In 2015, she received the prestigious Courage of Conscience Award from The Peace Abbey in Millis, Massachusetts for her strong advocacy work for people with developmental disabilities. In her spare time, Maureen loves to compose music—a lifelong passion.
Download or read book Crazy 8 s written by James Karantonis and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1967 during the Vietnam War. Zack Tonakis (White) is a young medic/psych tech who along with his buddy, Robert Turner, (Black) is assigned to the psychiatric ward of a stateside Army hospital. The ward houses young soldiers who are depressed; paranoid; obsessive-compulsive; a sociopath; and even a catatonic. Others, like Joker Berkowski who's described as "crazy funny," are there for a "failure to adjust" to Army life. A major, not of the medical profession, is brought in on temporary assignment while a qualified replacement is sought. The major, a short-timer, wants nothing to jeopardize his coming retirement. His right hand, Sergeant Helms, views patients as cowards and phonies. An inept ward psychiatrist is of little help to the patients. A patient escapes during a ball game prompting the major to shut down all outdoor activities. His mantra becomes: "Keep them invisible." The first story, "The Ball Game", introduces the soldiers who will have their own stories told in the collection. The main protagonist, psych tech Zack Tonakis, will follow the soldiers throughout the novel. Zack carries his own demons from the past.
Download or read book Rollercoaster written by Becca Leet and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lia Schaeffer has always thought she's just like everybody else at her high school, until a bad breakup sends her spiralling into thoughts and behaviors she can't control. A diagnosis of bipolar disorder has her reeling, but with the help of a kind doctor, a couple of understanding therapists and lots of love from family and friends, she learns how to navigate the tricky waters of mental illness and become a stronger version of herself.
Download or read book We Are the Mutants written by Kelly Roberts and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An offbeat odyssey through the most daring and disruptive phase of American cinema since the advent of sound — during the most transformative and tumultuous period of American history since the Civil War. We Are the Mutants is a critical reassessment of what is arguably the most discussed and beloved stretch of movies in Hollywood history. Documenting the period between the arrival of US combat troops in Vietnam and the end of President Ronald Reagan’s second term, it forgoes the usual and restrictive exemplars of “auteur cinema,” and instead focuses on an eclectic selection of films and genres — horror, documentary, disaster, vigilante action, neo-noir, post-apocalyptic sci-fi — to track this period's tumultuous transformation in American life, culture, and politics. Covering everything from Rosemary’s Baby and Enter the Dragon to Escape from New York and Fatal Attraction, and from manufactured blockbusters and studio sleepers to forgotten Bs and cult classics, We Are the Mutants re-writes the history of modern American cinema, and in doing so, the history of America itself.
