Download or read book The Broken Road to Mental Health written by Sharon Fekete and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astonished daily that most colleagues in business and beyond are unaware of the incredible amount of free help available to jump on this broken road to mental health, the author, a sober woman of 25 years, shares her practical tips and personal experience.
Download or read book Healing the Broken Mind written by Timothy A. Kelly and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We have come a long way over the past few decades in our understanding of mental illness and its potential treatments. Yet, tragically, many across the country who struggle with serious mental illness are unable to find effective, quality medical treatment. As a federal commission on mental health concluded, the system of care is in shambles. But why? And how do we fix it?" "Timothy A. Kelly, former Commissioner of Virginia's Department of Mental Health, Retardation, and Substance Abuse, brings his three decades of experience as mental health commissioner, psychology professor, and clinician to bear in confronting this crisis in America's mental health care system. In clear and accessible terms, he exposes the weaknesses in the current system, examining how and why one of the world's richest and most advanced countries has allowed its most vulnerable citizens to be victimized by the very system designed to help them." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book The Broken Road written by William Sobolewski and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We titled the book The Broken Road: Story of Our Son's Drug Addiction and Mental Illness because of the difficulties and struggles Mary and I faced during our sixteen-year effort to help our son who was mentally ill and addicted to drugs. Many times we thought we were headed in the right direction in dealing with Frank's mental illness and drug addiction. But that was not always the case. We were given directions that were misleading. Frank made promises that he did not keep. We have a legal system in Washington where guardians have little or no authority in making decisions for the incapacitated person. We have a health system in Washington that is inadequate in helping the mentally ill because the incapacitated person can only be hospitalized involuntarily if they are a "danger to themselves, others, or property." And we have a legal system that does not severely punish drug dealers. These difficulties and struggles led to a road that did not help Frank enough with his mental illness and drug addiction. It was a road that was difficult to navigate. It was a road that was not smooth and straight, and it was a road with many roadblocks. It was a broken road!
Download or read book Healing the Broken Mind written by Timothy A. Kelly and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few afflictions are as frightening or as heartbreaking as mental illness. It may be a topic that many would prefer to sweep under the rug, but it is a fact of life that we as a society can and must face. We have come a long way over the past few decades in our understanding of mental illness and its potential treatments. Yet, tragically, many across the country who struggle with serious mental illness are unable to find effective, quality medical treatment. As a federal commission on mental health concluded, the system of care is in shambles. But why? And how do we fix it? Timothy A. Kelly, former Commissioner of Virginia’s Department of Mental Health, Retardation, and Substance Abuse, brings his three decades of experience as mental health commissioner, psychology professor, and clinician to bear in confronting this crisis in America’s mental health care system. In clear and accessible terms, he exposes the weaknesses in the current system, examining how and why one of the world’s richest and most advanced countries has allowed its most vulnerable citizens to be victimized by the very system designed to help them. Armed with the latest statistics, a lifetime of experience, and heartrending life stories, Kelly argues that the patchwork of care traditionally employed to treat mental illness is simply not up to the task, and that what we need is profound, fundamental, and system-wide change. He then goes on to provide an easy-to-follow road map for achieving lasting transformation, centered on five recommendations for creating a truly effective mental health system of care that enables patients to achieve a lasting recovery. Mental illness is not going to just go away, but Kelly prescribes a comprehensive plan to make treatment accessible and effective so that those who suffer can rejoin their families and their communities. He shows how a transformed system of community-based care allows those with serious mental illness to finally be able to go home.
Download or read book THE BROKEN ROAD written by Paige Walker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broken Road is a moving true story of a mother’s strength and courage as she deals with the betrayal, anger and trauma from the sexual abuse of her 8 year daughter at the hands of her best friend’s husband. The story moves through the emotional journey of her need to seek revenge and justice but instead found acceptance and forgiveness of her daughter’s perpetrator.
Download or read book The Broken Road written by Richard Paul Evans and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling with nightmares about his childhood despite his success, Charles James explores the possibility of second chances after a twist of fate causes him to be declared dead.
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 Digest of the Broken Road Traveler written by R. Glenn Kelly and published by R. Glenn Kelly Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each chapter feels as warm, comforting, and truthful as when Dad would scoop you up from a big fall outside, then he’d give you some life advice while patching you up. Fantastic read." (John G.- Amazon Customer) Digest of the Broken Road Traveler - an empowering and life-changing personal growth self-help book that can guide you, a family member, or a dear friend in navigating and overcoming anxiety and depression, or maybe just that sad feeling that life has no meaning. With its insights, one can find peace, even in the most challenging times of your life, whether navigating a difficult divorce, the loss of a child, parent, or friend, or any of life's hardships and emotional traumas. You will be taken down an intimate road of perseverance and self-discovery. You will learn proven and powerful concepts and methods for restarting your life’s journey by traveling through four major WAYPOINTS of self-awareness and spiritual discovery. You will take fifty-two empowering EXITS, which will get you moving again toward your true purpose in life. You will travel again with inner peace, while re-energizing your soul and exciting your spirit. Imagine being inspired again! Imagine no more... In this incredible work of emotional recovery, self-love, and spiritual healing, you will learn: How to overcome anxiety and stress, eliminate self-doubt, and improve low self-esteem by focusing on what is most important in life – positivity, family, friends and faith, instead of overthinking and dwelling on failure, toxic relationships, negative experiences, and grief The FOUR WAYPOINTS that we must all pass through to get to our ultimate destination, each with THIRTEEN EXITS that contain heartwarming advice and inspirational stories of emotional healing, self-discovery, and spiritual awakening - Waypoint 1: Reawakening Your True Self – including Exits on ‘Self-worth’, ‘Chisel away at what’s not you’, ‘Past trauma is no future excuse’ and ‘Fill your life to the brim’ - Waypoint 2: Self Conscious, or Conscious of Self? – Exits on ‘Normalcy bias’, ‘The heart and soul of your lion’, ‘Emerge stronger from struggle’, and ‘Heed no words of limit’ - Waypoint 3: Revelations of Hardship – Exits on ‘Your 1st Stage of moving on’, ‘Be prepared to work for it’, ‘Your ship in a storm’, ‘find growth in every heartache’, and ‘returning to a state of ease’ - Waypoint 4: Reaffirming Faith and Spirit – Exits on ‘Experience His gift of love’, ‘He never said life would be easy’ and ‘The human journey of spirit’. A total of 52 comfort stops that will give you the emotional support that you need to continue traveling your broken road: ‘What happens when an impatient man gives up on a dream just before it's realized’, ‘When life brings storms upon your ship, will you allow an empty lifeboat to wash ashore?’, ‘How you would treat yourself if one day you showed up on your own doorstep?’, ‘Is there a divine purpose for every angel, even when they have bent and broken wings?’ ‘Why do giant Sequoias, with such shallow roots, refuse to topple over in even the greatest storms?’ Are you ready to take all 52 Exits from your broken road and find happiness, tranquility, and spiritual growth that will lead you back to a joyous life journey that combines body, mind, and soul? If so, it’s time to begin your new life of gratitude, self-discovery, and passion today, as a determined and battle-tested Broken Road Traveler! "Don’t turn to your mind in times of trouble. Instead, turn to your soul. Your soul is the part of you that is deeply connected to God." – R. Glenn Kelly If only one EXIT, one PARAGRAPH in Digest of the Broken Road Traveler changes your life for the better, it will be well worth your read.
Download or read book The Road Home written by Richard Paul Evans and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans, the dramatic conclusion in the riveting Broken Road trilogy—a powerful redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66. Chicago celebrity and pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead. Everyone believes he was killed in a fiery plane crash, a flight he narrowly missed. But thanks to that remarkable twist of fate, he’s very much alive and ready for a second chance at life and love. Escaping death has brought Charles some clarity: the money, the fame, the expensive cars; none of it brought him true joy or peace. The last time he was truly happy was when he was married to his ex-wife Monica, before their relationship was destroyed by his ambition and greed. In this final installment of the exciting and provocative series that began with The Broken Road and The Forgotten Road, Charles is still on his pilgrimage across the iconic Route 66. He intends to finish his trek from Amarillo to Santa Monica, despite learning that his ex-wife is now planning to marry another man. With the initial reason for his trip in jeopardy, he still has lessons to learn along the way before he discovers—and arrives at—his true destination.
Download or read book Broken Glass written by Robert V. Hine and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a father's relationship with his daughter and her struggles with mental illness.
Download or read book An Overcast Sky A Broken Road written by Stephen Alexander North and published by Stephen A. North. This book was released on with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just north of Khartoum adrift, for now one song follows another one moment indistinguishable from the next beyond the movements the pauses of my fingers on the keyboard it is a bliss not knowing what comes next there are so many words and songs to occupy me if my words run out in my old age I drift and remember when I ran where I walked the trees I climbed the people I loved and it’s all one life a huge picture not just a memory but a river that keeps moving and I haven’t found the end not yet maybe it’s circling around to a place where I’ll begin again (completed on a Sunday, the fifth day of May, 2024)
Download or read book The Broken Road written by Peggy Wallace Kennedy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the daughter of one of America's most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with her father George Wallace's legacy of hate--and illuminates her journey towards redemption. Peggy Wallace Kennedy has been widely hailed as the “symbol of racial reconciliation” (Washington Post). In the summer of 1963, though, she was just a young girl watching her father stand in a schoolhouse door as he tried to block two African-American students from entering the University of Alabama. This man, former governor of Alabama and presidential candidate George Wallace, was notorious for his hateful rhetoric and his political stunts. But he was also a larger-than-life father to young Peggy, who was taught to smile, sit straight, and not speak up as her father took to the political stage. At the end of his life, Wallace came to renounce his views, although he could never attempt to fully repair the damage he caused. But Peggy, after her own political awakening, dedicated her life to spreading the new Wallace message--one of peace and compassion. In this powerful new memoir, Peggy looks back on the politics of her youth and attempts to reconcile her adored father with the man who coined the phrase “Segregation now. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever.” Timely and timeless, The Broken Road speaks to change, atonement, activism, and racial reconciliation.
Download or read book The End of Mental Illness written by Daniel G. Amen and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2020 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Daniel Amen offers evidence-based approach to preventing and treating conditions like anxiety, depression, ADHD, addictions, PTSD, bipolar, and more.
Download or read book Picking Up The Broken Pieces written by Arielle Bradberry and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An honest and inspiring memoir of a young women battling psychosis, depression and anxiety The story is of a women who experiences mental health brought on by stress. A candid and intimate retelling of her breakdown, and her memories and experiences of her times in a mental health facility. Read the journal of her inner thoughts while in the mental health facility and after. With medical intervention and the love and support of her family and fiancé, she finds a way to manage and live with mental illness. Learn the importance of self care and what you can do to help yourself or a loved one going through mental illness. The story is written with the hope that others might be able to relate to some of her experience and know that they are not alone. The stigma of mental illness needs to be broken and people need to start talking about how they really feel.
Download or read book Wired Up Wrong written by Rachael Smith and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new graphic memoir, from the award-winning author of Quarantine Comix. Hoping to better understand her own brain, award-winning comic-creator Rachael Smith set about documenting her experiences and struggles with anxiety and depression through comic strips. The resulting book, Wired Up Wrong, is both educating and entertaining, holding a mirror up to all the flattering and unflattering aspects of mental health. Featuring Rufus the cat, Barky, a giant black dog who lives inside her head, and two tiny, imaginary game-show hosts, Comedy Women in Print-shortlisted Rachael Smith's work is at times light-hearted, others heart-breaking, but always brave and honest.
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 Furiously Happy written by Jenny Lawson and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling your husband first because you suspect he would say no since he's never particularly liked kangaroos. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience. My husband says that none is the new limit. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos. "Most of my favorite people are dangerously fucked-up but you'd never guess because we've learned to bare it so honestly that it becomes the new normal. Like John Hughes wrote in The Breakfast Club, 'We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it.' Except go back and cross out the word 'hiding.'" Furiously Happy is about "taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they're the same moments we take into battle with us when our brains declare war on our very existence. It's the difference between "surviving life" and "living life". It's the difference between "taking a shower" and "teaching your monkey butler how to shampoo your hair." It's the difference between being "sane" and being "furiously happy." Lawson is beloved around the world for her inimitable humor and honesty, and in Furiously Happy, she is at her snort-inducing funniest. This is a book about embracing everything that makes us who we are - the beautiful and the flawed - and then using it to find joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. Because as Jenny's mom says, "Maybe 'crazy' isn't so bad after all." Sometimes crazy is just right.
