Download or read book Experiencing and Overcoming Schizoaffective Disorder written by Steve Colori and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful memoir, 16-Time Oxford University Medical Journals Contributor, McLean Hospital's Harvard Resident Doctors' Lecturer, and Good Men's Project Columnist Steve Colori courageously articulates his experience of facing and overcoming schizoaffective disorder. His personal narrative gives readers insight into the true nature of the illness, providing a lucid description of symptoms such as hallucinations, paranoia, OCD, suicidal thoughts, bipolar disorder, mania, insomnia, family issues, and social dysfunction. Colori explains how he worked through all these symptoms and resolved them. He tells the reader why, at one point, he decided to stop taking medication; and shows why he later changed his mind and permanently resumed taking medication. The book also details a number of therapies that Colori utilized to overcome the disorder-such as talk therapy, journaling, and exposure therapy- which eventually enabled him to advance far beyond recovery.Steve Colori has published fifteen essays with Oxford Medical Journals; he has a column with The Good Men's Project in their Health and Wellness Section titled "Steve Colori Talks Mental Health". Steve has lectured Mclean's Harvard Resident Doctors quarterly since 2012; he has lectured for Harvard Medical School's Executive Education Program; he lectures at Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work annually; he has lectured at NAMI GBCAN Boston; he has lectured for NAMI Reads in the Greater Chicago Area; and he has also lectured at Mass General Hospital's "Schizophrenia Day".
Download or read book Schizoaffective Disorder Simplified written by Martine Daniel and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DescriptionSchizoaffective disorder is a condition which shares symptoms with both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and which affects as many as 1 in 200 people - 0.5% of the population. Surprisingly, there have been few books written about schizoaffective disorder, and even fewer aimed at the general reader. Until now. Schizoaffective Disorder Simplified is your comprehensive and up-to-date guide to schizoaffective disorder, featuring an introduction to the condition, its symptoms, its treatment and various ways that people can learn to manage their illness, as well as a series of helpful worksheets for people with schizoaffective disorder. Aimed at the general reader, whether you have schizoaffective disorder, care for someone with the illness or just have a curious interest in the subject, this book will answer all your questions about schizoaffective disorder, and give you an insight into what it is like to live with mania, depression and psychosis. About the AuthorMartine Daniel was born in York in 1981. From a young age, she knew she wanted to be a writer, and whilst at secondary school she would often be caught scribbling stories in the back of exercise books during lessons. Her dreams of seeing her name in print never dimmed, despite her life being turned upside down by episodes of mania, depression and psychosis during her late teens and early twenties.In 2003 the pressures of a stressful job brought on an episode of psychotic mania, which led to the breakdown that ended her hopes of a career in bookselling, following which Martine was finally forced into contact with local mental health services. With the help of medication and the support of her family, she began to pick up the pieces of her life and started work on her first novel The Fire in Your Eyes (published 2009), juggling work on the novel with her studies with The Open University. Her second novel, Legacy of Lies, the sequel to The Fire in Your Eyes, and her third novel, Wading the Waters of my Mind, were both published in 2010. Martine is a keen supporter of the Time to Change campaign and hopes that her writing can help to put an end to the stigma of mental illness.
Download or read book Thoughts on Therapy written by Steve Colori and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughts on Therapy, is a powerful collection of essays about Steve Colori's recovery from schizoaffective disorder and emergence back into living a full life. Building from his first book, Thoughts on Therapy provides tremendous tools, insights, resources, and wisdom on working through and eliminating symptoms, behavioral work, interpersonal dynamics, stigma, and living in the modern world with mental health struggles. The essays range from addressing mania, referential thinking, hearing and seeing things, dating, medication, working, and interacting with family. There's a wealth of detail, practicality, and logic for handling mental illness and psychosis in particular. Steve's remedies for symptoms and ailments take a variety of approaches and angles and give invaluable insight and novelty into combatting mental illness. For anyone interested in learning more about mental health, this is a must read. A good portion of the essays have been previously published, while there are fifteen that have previously never been read. Steve Colori currently works at McLean Hospital as a Peer Specialist. Within his work he teaches McLean hospital's medical staff and resident doctors on a daily basis, providing insight and wisdom towards improving care. Within his work, Steve is a program coordinator, he drafts and provides in-service didactics, he helps teach within the residency program for Harvard Medical School, he works within in-patient, out-patient, and residential settings providing individual peer to peer work and group facilitation. Steve has published 20 papers with Schizophrenia Bulletin by Oxford Medical Journals, he writes a Mental Health Column titled Steve Colori Talks Mental Health, and his first book Experiencing and Overcoming Schizoaffective Disorder has sold over 2,000 copies worldwide. Steve has lectured throughout the Greater Boston area including for Harvard Executive Education, Pharmaceutical Companies, NAMI Connecticut, NAMI Massachusetts, NAMI GBCAN, and he lectures regularly at McLean Hospital and semi-annually at Simmons Graduate School of Social Work. To read more of his writing, please visit SteveColori.com.
Download or read book What a Life Can Be written by Carolyn Dobbins and published by Bridgeross Communications. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look into the world of schizo-affective disorder which, at times, is funny, heartbreaking, but above all uplifting. Dr. Carolyn Dobbins describes the onset and progression of this debilitating disease and gives readers hope. The book breaks through the stigma as mental illness affects us all. Included at the end are facts about serious mental illness, the 6 A's of self help and Dr Dobbins' message to her counseling colleagues who may be surprised, as all readers will be, by the ending. In an advance review, the National Alliance on Mental Illness said this book is told in an unorthodox but very effective manner." and that "people are more than their illness". Dr E Fuller Torrey, author of Surviving Schizophrenia, said "an inspiration for all who have ever experienced psychosis" Dr. Thomas G Burish, a professor of psychology and Provost of Notre Dame University said this book is "powerful and revealing, and provides a unique insight into chronic mental disease". He added that the book is "a probing, liberating story"
Download or read book Out of the Darkness and Into the Light My Personal Struggle with Schizoaffective Disorder and How the Illness Brought Me Closer to God written by Lora Bell and published by Lora Bell. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the Darkness and Into the Light provides an intimate look into thestruggles of a young Christian mother in dealing with schizoaffectivedisorder. This telling and personal autobiography is a testament to thepower of faith and reaches out to all individuals who live with mentalillness, assuring them they are not alone and that God will not forsakethem. Schizoaffective disorder is a mental illness characterized byepisodes of hallucinations and mood swings. The author, Lora Bell, has dedicated a year of her life to sharing her special story about howher acceptance of God has blessed her and changed her life forever.The reader gets a glimpse of what life is like for Lora, living withthis illness, and the many obstacles she and her family face. Loradetails her life through three pregnancies and severe postpartumdepression after the birth of her second child. With God's help, Lorahas painstakingly worked through major difficulties, independentlystudied schizoaffective disorder and survived experiences in and outof the hospital. You will learn about schizoaffective disorder, its earlysigns and symptoms and treatment options, all of which will assist inpersevering mental illness or in supporting a loved one to overcomethis mystifying illness.
Download or read book Schizoaffective Disorder written by Guenevere MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to living with Schizoaffective disorder, including information on the disorder, treatment options, medication, weight and health issues, relationships, self care and recovery. Written for patients by a patient, a direct first person account of all aspects of diagnosis and treatment for those who suffer from the disorder as well as loved ones and family.
Download or read book Balancing the Beast written by Helena Smole and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smole presents her own successful path out of her daily struggle against extreme mood swings, suicidal thoughts, paranoia, and other delusions--a program based upon a unique combination of humor and hard work along with psychiatric medication, mental exercises, lifestyle choices, and alternative medicine approaches.
Download or read book Sherry Goes Sane written by Sherry M. Joiner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gripping and candidly honest, Sherry Goes Sane is a nonfiction memoir detailing the author's struggles and triumphs as a woman with mental illness. The story follows Sherry Joiner as she faces schizoaffective disorder while trying to overcome childhood abuse, her mother's suicide, and death of her brother from AIDS. While featuring honest insight into the thoughts and stressors faced by those with psychologial disorders, the story also takes a grim look into a childhood plagued by abuse, illness, and loss"--Page 4 of cover.
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 Walking Through Walls written by Two Lenz and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1970s, writer Two Lenz was diagnosed with schizophrenia, inaugurating a journey through the American mental health establishment that has lasted more than three decades. This finally took her to one diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, numerous hospitalizations and treatment techniques. WALKING THROUGH WALLS (OVERCOMING THE BARRIERS OF SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS) is an account of that history. It is a highly intimate and candid portrait of one womans struggle to take control of her personal destiny while sharing with others her hope for a more promising future. In clear, lucid prose, WALKING THROUGH WALLS weaves autobiographical narrative with an historical look at how mental illness has been understood throughout the ages. It shows the problems in modern approaches to handling the mentally ill. This first-hand, yet authoritative viewpoint, makes the book applicable not only for those who suffer from mental illness themselves, but also for family, friends and co-workers of the mentally ill. It also give insight to those looking for a more thorough understanding of what the mentally ill go through on a daily basis. More than just an autobiography, WALKING THROUGH WALLS resonates with the experiences of millions of Americans who suffer from mental disorders such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and clinical depression.This book can useful to mental health care providers and other clinicians, students, social workers, nurses, chaplains, administrators, politicians, psychologists, and psychiatrists.
Download or read book The Schizoaffective Workbook written by Mesloub Iheb and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journal combines two treatments for schizoaffective disorder : cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical cognitive therapy. This guide contains a set of specialized worksheets that will help you recover from emotional schizophrenia and find quick solutions to get out of this psychological problem.
Download or read book A Mind Less Ordinary written by Tanya J. Sheldon and published by Chipmunka Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description "A Mind Less Ordinary: My Experience of Living with Anorexia and Schizoaffective Disorder" is a book about my illness, but it is by no means a 'misery memoir'. Instead, it is intended to help people who have not experienced mental health problems to understand what it is like to live through them. It is not written chronologically. I begin with a chapter in which I introduce myself; I finish with a summary of where I am in relation to my schizoaffective disorder and its treatment at present. The chapters in between form a series of essays about different aspects of my illness experience. Psychiatrists use a language called 'phenomenology' to describe psychological symptoms. For example, I have periods of depression, periods of hypomania, and periods of psychosis. But what do those words really mean to a sufferer? That is the question which I seek to answer in my book, stretching the English language to explain as best as it is possible in mere words what each of these states of mind feels like. I have also devoted chapters to my teenage anorexia and to my difficulties with self-harm and suicidal behaviour, as well as to my hospitalisations and the various treatments which I have had both in the UK and in the United States. Although there are many people who suffer from schizoaffective disorder, I bring a unique perspective because I am also qualified as a doctor. My medical background has allowed me to have greater insight than I would have as a lay person, which has at times been helpful and has at other times undoubtedly made life more difficult. I explain how, as a doctor, I have suffered particular loss due to my psychosis, since the General Medical Council refused to grant me a licence to practise; however, I also write about the wealth of life experience my illness has given me, including living in a condemned psychiatric ward for over a year and hearing patients' perspectives on their treatment which I would never have been privy to as a health professional. For me, it has been a privilege to be able to write this book during a period of relative health and lucidity. I know that I will not always be able to articulate myself so well, and it is possible that my illness will deteriorate to a point where I lose the capacity to write altogether. Many of my friends have already reached that stage and are eager that I should be their voice. For that reason, I feel both obliged and privileged to leave a legacy of understanding. I hope that mental health professionals will read my book and begin to think beyond textbook definitions of psychiatric phenomena; I hope that carers will read my book and finish it with greater insight into their loved-one's particular battles; and I hope that the general public will read my book and begin to comprehend what it is like to suffer from severe mental illness. My brain is both my best friend and my worst enemy. For example, it has allowed me to pass final medical exams whilst detained in a psychiatric unit. As I wrote in my 'biography' page, my life has been remarkable; as the title of my book declares, my mind is certainly far from ordinary.
Download or read book Back from the Brink written by Graeme Cowan and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 24th, 2004, author Graeme Cowan took pen to paper and said goodbye to his family. “I just can’t be a burden any longer,” he wrote. After four failed suicide attempts, and a five-year episode of depression that his psychiatrist described as the worst he had ever treated, Cowan set out on a difficult journey back from the brink. Since then, he has dedicated his life to helping others struggling with depression and bipolar disorder—and that is how this book came to be. If you have severe depression or bipolar disorder, it is important to remember that you are not alone. Featuring interviews with people from of all walks of life, Back from the Brink is filled with real stories of hope and healing, information about treatment options and medication, and tools for putting what you've learned into practice. If you are ready to put one foot in front of the other and finally set out on the path to recovery, the powerful stories in this book will inform and inspire you to make lasting change. If you have severe depression or bipolar disorder, you may find it difficult to take that first step toward recovery. You aren’t alone. In our society, many people with depression or bipolar disorder do not seek therapy or medical treatment due to the stigma that surrounds mental illness. Even people in “progressive” communities may not want to admit that they are on antidepressants or mood-balancing medications. Isn’t it time we changed the way we thought about these illnesses? The book includes a special foreword by actress Glenn Close, and features in-depth interviews with former US Representative Patrick Kennedy; television talk-show host Trisha Goddard; director of public policy at Google, Bob Boorstin; former chief advisor to Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell; former tennis pro, Cliff Richey; former professional football player, Greg Montgomery; and many more.
Download or read book Schizoaffective Disorder written by Lacy Wise and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers information on schizoaffective disorder, provided by Phillip W. Long, which involves both affective and schizophrenic symptoms. Highlights the American and European descriptions of schizoaffective disorder, treatment, and research.
Download or read book After Her Brain Broke written by Susan Inman and published by Bridgeross Communications. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an introduction by Sen. Michael Kirby, Chair, Mental Health Commission of Canada"--Cover.
Download or read book Treatments for Anger in Specific Populations written by Ephrem Fernandez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treatments for Anger in Specific Populations provides information and instruction on empirically supported interventions for anger in various clinical contexts, including substance abuse, PTSD, the intellectually disabled, borderline personality disorder, children and adolescents, and others.
Download or read book Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The understanding of how to reduce risk factors for mental disorders has expanded remarkably as a result of recent scientific advances. This study, mandated by Congress, reviews those advances in the context of current research and provides a targeted definition of prevention and a conceptual framework that emphasizes risk reduction. Highlighting opportunities for and barriers to interventions, the book draws on successful models for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, injuries, and smoking. In addition, it reviews the risk factors associated with Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, alcohol abuse and dependence, depressive disorders, and conduct disorders and evaluates current illustrative prevention programs. The models and examination provide a framework for the design, application, and evaluation of interventions intended to prevent mental disorders and the transfer of knowledge about prevention from research to clinical practice. The book presents a focused research agenda, with recommendations on how to develop effective intervention programs, create a cadre of prevention researchers, and improve coordination among federal agencies.
