Download or read book Faces of Mental Illness 20 Stories Bringing You Through Your Journey From Stigma to Health written by Samantha Ruth and published by Kate Butler Books. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world doesn't understand Mental Illness. The world doesn't even talk enough about Mental Illness.... The world is about to change! These 20 brave souls share their raw, real stories bringing you through the journey from stigma to health. Together, they are taking the first step in a movement to increase awareness, educate people, provide support, encourage compassion and understanding, give hope and love for those who struggle with a mental illness and by doing so, truly STOP the stigma surrounding mental illness, because mental illness is not always what you think. Through our stories, you will be inspired, educated, transformed and we trust you will be also moved to join our fight to stop the stigma on an illness that is real, invisible and highly misunderstood and stigmatized. Join us in our movement to break the silence and together impact lives, bring hope and change the way the world sees mental illness.
Download or read book The Stigma of Mental Illness End of the Story written by Wolfgang Gaebel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a highly innovative contribution to overcoming the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness – still the heaviest burden both for those afflicted and those caring for them. The scene is set by the presentation of different fundamental perspectives on the problem of stigma and discrimination by researchers, consumers, families, and human rights experts. Current knowledge and practice used in reducing stigma are then described, with information on the programmes adopted across the world and their utility, feasibility, and effectiveness. The core of the volume comprises descriptions of new approaches and innovative programmes specifically designed to overcome stigma and discrimination. In the closing part of the book, the editors – all respected experts in the field – summarize some of the most important evidence- and experience-based recommendations for future action to successfully rewrite the long and burdensome ‘story’ of mental illness stigma and discrimination.
Download or read book Speak Up Against Stigma written by Kristy Towson and published by Inner Strength Writing Solutions. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stigma keeps those suffering with mental illness silent. But not anymore! Speak Up Against Stigma: Her Mental Health Journey shines a bright light on the shadows of mental illness and illuminates the beauty of speaking up through the power of storytelling. Each chapter explores the struggles, triumphs, and ongoing journeys of 12 women who have experienced mental illness firsthand. From anxiety and depression to bipolar disorder and PTSD, these women share their unique perspectives on living with mental illness. Speak Up Against Stigma: Her Mental Health Journey is a powerful call to action, urging readers to join the movement to speak up against stigma and promote mental health awareness. With its uplifting and inspiring tone, this book offers hope and encouragement to anyone who has experienced mental illness and is a must-read for those seeking a deeper understanding of the power of sharing mental health stories to promote healing and growth.
Download or read book We ve Been Too Patient written by L. D. Green and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 unflinching stories and essays from the front lines of the radical mental health movement Overmedication, police brutality, electroconvulsive therapy, involuntary hospitalization, traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: these are the struggles of those labeled “mentally ill.” While much has been written about the systemic problems of our mental-health care system, this book gives voice to those with personal experience of psychiatric miscare often excluded from the discussion, like people of color and LGBTQ+ communities. It is dedicated to finding working alternatives to the “Mental Health Industrial Complex” and shifting the conversation from mental illness to mental health.
Download or read book Living Hell Stigma written by Joshua Mark Broom and published by Petemark Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This could be one of the most unique mental health books you'll ever read. Living Hell Stigma is for anyone that has suffered stigma from mental illness or physical disability. I know firsthand how deep those wounds can cut. In an effort to change the dialogue surrounding stigma from shame to understanding, I offer you the most candid, sometimes embarrassing aspects of my life in this offerings pages. While my story is a speck in the much larger mental health conversation, this book's later sections focus on specific mental illnesses and how we can challenge their broad negative historical stereotypes. Following a traumatic birth and subsequent mental minefield, I've seen the lows of total agoraphia and asylum life mixed with the highs of working in media alongside professional athletes and actors. Perhaps my personal story can both entertain and inspire you. Perhaps the conversations found in segments two and three will resonate with you. This book is written in three parts. Segment one summarizes my experiences as a physically disabled and mentally ill individual. Segment two provides a comprehensive look into the disorders I've faced. Finally, segment three offers a detailed mental health conversation. Part three's topics include everything from the history and impact of mental health stigma, to healthcare shortages, to how our broken psychiatric care system strains us all. While this is a deep read, it also contains irreverent situational comedy and tips for maximizing yourself in any situation. Thank you so much for taking the journey to raise greater mental health awareness! Let's begin our conversation with my formative understanding of "normal" and "abnormal."
Download or read book Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the most highly stigmatized health conditions in the United States, and they remain barriers to full participation in society in areas as basic as education, housing, and employment. Improving the lives of people with mental health and substance abuse disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 is considered a major turning point in America's efforts to improve behavioral healthcare. It ushered in an era of optimism and hope and laid the groundwork for the consumer movement and new models of recovery. The consumer movement gave voice to people with mental and substance use disorders and brought their perspectives and experience into national discussions about mental health. However over the same 50-year period, positive change in American public attitudes and beliefs about mental and substance use disorders has lagged behind these advances. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on a relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination. This report contributes to national efforts to understand and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that can lead to stigma and discrimination. Changing stigma in a lasting way will require coordinated efforts, which are based on the best possible evidence, supported at the national level with multiyear funding, and planned and implemented by an effective coalition of representative stakeholders. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies for reducing stigma and encouraging people to seek treatment and other supportive services. It offers a set of conclusions and recommendations about successful stigma change strategies and the research needed to inform and evaluate these efforts in the United States.
Download or read book All the Things We Never Knew written by Sheila Hamilton and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even as a reporter, Sheila Hamilton missed the signs as her husband David's mental illness unfolded before her. By the time she had pieced together the puzzle, it was too late. Her once brilliant, intense, and passionate partner was dead within six weeks of a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, leaving his nine-year-old daughter and wife without so much as a note to explain his actions, a plan to help them recover from their profound grief, or a solution for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt that they would inherit from him. All the Things We Ner Knew details the unsettling descent from ordinary life into the world of mental illness, and examines the fragile line between reality and madness." --
Download or read book The 3 Faces Of My Mental Illness written by James Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I suffer from a mental illness. I wrote this book to break the stigmas that society places on people that have a mental illness. I also want to give a voice to those that suffer from a mental illness. I know there are many people in our society that do not care about people that have a mental illness. I hope that you are not one of them. I thank you for being compassionate enough to read this book and get a better understanding of what many of us that have a mental illness deal with on a daily basis.
Download or read book Another Kind of Madness written by Stephen Hinshaw and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallel to An Unquiet Mind and The Glass Castle, a deeply personal memoir calling for the destigmatization of mental illness
Download or read book Reducing the Stigma of Mental Illness written by Norman Sartorius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the results of the Open Doors Programme, set up to fight the stigma/discrimination attached to schizophrenia.
Download or read book Healing written by Thomas Insel, MD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America’s broken mental health care system. “Healing is truly one of the best books ever written about mental illness, and I think I’ve read them all." —Pete Earley, author of Crazy As director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel was giving a presentation when the father of a boy with schizophrenia yelled from the back of the room, “Our house is on fire and you’re telling me about the chemistry of the paint! What are you doing to put out the fire?” Dr. Insel knew in his heart that the answer was not nearly enough. The gargantuan American mental health industry was not healing millions who were desperately in need. He left his position atop the mental health research world to investigate all that was broken—and what a better path to mental health might look like. In the United States, we have treatments that work, but our system fails at every stage to deliver care well. Even before COVID, mental illness was claiming a life every eleven minutes by suicide. Quality of care varies widely, and much of the field lacks accountability. We focus on drug therapies for symptom reduction rather than on plans for long-term recovery. Care is often unaffordable and unavailable, particularly for those who need it most and are homeless or incarcerated. Where was the justice for the millions of Americans suffering from mental illness? Who was helping their families? But Dr. Insel also found that we do have approaches that work, both in the U.S. and globally. Mental illnesses are medical problems, but he discovers that the cures for the crisis are not just medical, but social. This path to healing, built upon what he calls the three Ps (people, place, and purpose), is more straightforward than we might imagine. Dr. Insel offers a comprehensive plan for our failing system and for families trying to discern the way forward. The fruit of a lifetime of expertise and a global quest for answers, Healing is a hopeful, actionable account and achievable vision for us all in this time of mental health crisis.
Download or read book STUCK In the Sick Role written by Melissa Stennett Deuter and published by Melissa Deuter, MD, Pllc. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatrist Dr. Melissa Deuter is an expert advisor to people who are "STUCK" and their families, and now to readers. Through vivid stories of young adult patients and their parents, Dr. Deuter demonstrates how changes in parenting coupled with increased mental health care consumption have led many to become "STUCK in the sick role" indefinitely.
Download or read book What s Wrong with the Poor written by Mical Raz and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon's 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care. She shows that this cooperation between mental health professionals and policymakers was based on an understanding of what poor men, women, and children lacked. This perception was rooted in psychiatric theories of deprivation focused on two overlapping sections of American society: the poor had less, and African Americans, disproportionately represented among America's poor, were seen as having practically nothing. Raz analyzes the political and cultural context that led child mental health experts, educators, and policymakers to embrace this deprivation-based theory and its translation into liberal social policy. Deprivation theory, she shows, continues to haunt social policy today, profoundly shaping how both health professionals and educators view children from low-income and culturally and linguistically diverse homes.
Download or read book Profiles in Mental Health Courage written by Patrick J. Kennedy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles in Mental Health Courage portrays the dramatic journeys of a diverse group of Americans who have struggled with their mental health. This book offers deeply compelling stories about the bravery and resilience of those living with a variety of mental illnesses and addictions. Several years ago, Patrick J. Kennedy shared the story of his personal and family challenges with mental illness and addiction—and the nation’s—in his bestselling memoir, A Common Struggle. Now, he and his Common Struggle coauthor, award-winning healthcare journalist Stephen Fried, have crafted this powerful new book sharing the untold stories of others—a special group who agreed to talk about their illnesses, treatments, and struggles for the first time. When Kennedy’s uncle, President John F. Kennedy, published his classic book Profiles in Courage, he hoped to inspire “political courage” by telling the stories of brave U.S. senators who changed America. In Profiles in Mental Health Courage, former Congressman Kennedy adapts his uncle’s idea to inspire the “mental health courage” it takes for those with these conditions to treat their illnesses, and risk telling their stories to help America face its crisis in our families, our workplaces, our jails, and on our streets. The resounding silence surrounding these illnesses remains persistent, and this book takes an unflinching look at the experience of mental illness and addiction that inspires profound connection, empathy, and action. In this book, you’ll meet people of all ages, backgrounds, and futures, across politics and government, Hollywood and the arts, tech and business, sports and science—some recovering, some relapsing, some just barely holding on, but all sharing experiences and insights we need to better understand. You’ll also meet those trying to help them through—parents, siblings, spouses, therapists, bosses, doctors, and friends who create the extended families needed to support care and wellness. The personal stories they share with Kennedy and Fried are intimate, sometimes shocking, always revealing. And they are essential reading for caregivers, family members, policymakers, and the general public—just as they are for those who often feel alone in experiencing these challenges themselves.
Download or read book Everybody Hurts Sometimes the Me You Never See written by Arthur Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a look at how or about a man who has suffered all his life with many "mental health disorders" biological unhappiness and I feel that it is an important area that needs to be seen in order for us all to realize what it's like to fight the media, and the public along with the illnesses, medical staff that you may have to face not to mention the negative stigma that those of us with an illness have to face everyday, once we are branded! It is my hope that this may help someone in some area of mental health or those treating someone in the mental health arena and that may lead to someone's healing of the negativity that is so common place all around, and to also aleviate some of the negitive stigma and press, and bring us into a brand new area where it is OK to have a mental health disorder! So why don't you please take a look down the path that not many have ever seen, it's the me that I really don't want you to see and you really should not see ( IT SHOULD STAY PRIVATE, DAM THIS IS GOING TO BE EMBARRESSING! ) Yet it is vital for all those with mental illness and those treating mental illness and all those that want to understand the menatally ill, that you take a look at the me you should never see. Why don't you come on in and see a side of me that not many have ever seen and some shall never see, yet it is vital that you have a look. Come on in and take a look at what a life or a time in ones life's, that would classify as having mental health disorder is like and all the negativity that goes along with it, how your own family won't understand, how everyone will think you aren't trying hard enough! How a life of pain can lead one down a path that you should never see and that is very embarrassing to show you indeed, yet for the good of all man kind and for the advancement of the cause in giving those with a mental health disorder a better chance at a full recover, I believe this story needs to be seen, by everyeone, so please have a look at ME the uncensored version. I should mention the foul language in this book, this was not put in the book to gain readers or even to reach the younger generation. It was simply added to the book because that is how I used to be and would act with alochol in the picture and I believe you are starting to get the picture and the tone of my life at the time and REALLY FEEL how a severe mental health disorder litterally can take over and run your life, and some never recover they are stuck in a never ending cycle pain and suffering. So yes this is tuff and I feel this sort of language does not need to be used and I now refrain from using it in my life at all and I feel that you should never see but it is impairetive that you have a look for all those waiting and wanting to understand what a metal health disorder is all about! So when you are reading this try to understand where and at what point I was at in my life and please know that I am now set free, from all this negitive lifestyle!
Download or read book It s Kind of a Funny Story written by Ned Vizzini and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.
Download or read book Famous People with Mental Illness written by Jessica Mitchell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Famous People with Mental Illness: Inspiring Stories of Triumph and Hope," Jessica Mitchell unveils a compelling exploration into the lives of iconic figures who have grappled with mental health challenges and emerged victorious. Through these powerful narratives, readers embark on a transformative journey that shatters stigma, offers solace, and ignites the flame of hope. This illuminating book reveals that mental illness knows no boundaries-it touches the lives of celebrities and everyday people alike. With grace and empathy, Jessica delves into the lives of famous actors, musicians, athletes, and artists who have faced the depths of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and more. These captivating stories illustrate that mental health is an integral part of the human experience, regardless of one's status or accomplishments. Key Highlights: - Explore the hidden struggles of luminaries like Winston Churchill, Carrie Fisher, Michael Phelps, Vincent van Gogh, Demi Lovato, Abraham Lincoln, Glenn Close, and many more. - Uncover the challenges they faced under the unforgiving spotlight, the fear of disclosure, and the journey toward recovery. - Witness how these remarkable individuals turned their pain into purpose, adversity into advocacy, and vulnerability into victory. - Gain practical insights and tools for managing your own mental well-being. - Discover how famous figures have used their platform to advocate for mental health awareness, breaking down barriers and fostering compassion. - Embrace the powerful message of hope that transcends the pages of this book, reminding you that recovery is not only possible but achievable. "Famous People with Mental Illness: Inspiring Stories of Triumph and Hope" is a beacon of light in the realm of mental health literature. It is a call to action, urging you to join the movement toward understanding, empathy, and support for those facing mental health challenges. If you seek inspiration, education, and the assurance that you are never alone in your journey, this book is a must-read. Buy it now and embark on a transformative voyage toward hope and healing.
