Download or read book The Edge of Sanity written by Olivia Burnett and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After high school, all eighteen-year-old Olivia wants is a new start. But when she quits her summer job in Yellowstone, Olivia, a former straight A student descends into a life of bipolar madness. Through it all, she keeps on driving, to the edge of sanity, perhaps beyond.
Download or read book Completely in Blue Dispatches from the Edge of Sanity written by and published by Post Mortem Press. This book was released on with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edge of Sanity written by Jesi Met and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the distinction between reality and fiction? Sanity and insanity? These are the questions that twin siblings Jasmin and Herby find themselves attempting to answer. Jasmin writes in an attempt to understand what is true. She struggles to maintain separation between her scrambled memories and her grief stricken reality without losing herself in the process. Herby tries to answer most of the unanswered questions that Jasmin's letters raise. He also battles between his sanity and insanity in his efforts to gain the love and affection of his beloved sister. He will eliminate any boundaries that come between him and what his heart longs for regardless of the consequences. However, what ails the two most is what has brought them to the mental torment they suffer. Their less than normal childhoods certainly did not foster reputable adulthoods. What confines Jasmin to her white prison? Who are her daily noonday "friends" that visit her at the cusp of her reality leaning over her imagination? What motivates Herby to want to destroy all those that stand in his way of pursuing his only love? Will he accomplish all that his soul desperately tries to fulfill? With all these unanswered questions and more, it is no wonder why the two bear the mental torment to which they are submitted.
Download or read book Edge of Sanity written by Deepak Kanakaraju and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurship is not an easy game. There are so many challenges in the journey, and no one said it was easy to build a business. However, with certain base principles and fundamentals, the journey can be made easy. Edge of Sanity is written from the personal experiences of Deepak Kanakaraju in trying to build his start-up company. The book explores topics like ethics, value creation, an entrepreneur’s mindset, personal health, productivity, marketing and more. Entrepreneurship is hard and it drives many people to the edge of sanity. However, with good mentorship, advice, discipline, team and a long-term vision, anyone can succeed as an entrepreneur. This is a book that everyone should read before starting up a new business. The chapters in this book are designed in such a way that one chapter can be read every day, and one can complete reading the book within a month. They are not necessarily in sequence, and can be read in any order.
Download or read book Edge of Sanity written by Marlene Russell Lovejoy and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Americans suffer with some type of mental health disorder. Even in our sophisticated society, these issues are still spoken about in whispered tones. Marlene Russell Lovejoy relates her experiences and reveals the horrifying labyrinths of a disturbed mind. As bouts of darkness and hopelessness lead to panic, fear, and thoughts of suicide, she continually questions her sanity. Even her deep faith in God cannot suppress the abrupt switch to mania and the impending fear of entering a mental institution. Marlene's honest and straghtforward journal, Edge of Sanity: Journal of Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Beyond, speaks to people in everyday language about mental health disorders. She sheds new light on what it is like to live with a serious disorder, and how she manages her symptoms through medication, diet, prayer, exercise, and therapy. Her purposeful intent is to dispel any misconceptions that remain about these topics and promote openness and acceptance. Book jacket.
Download or read book To the Edge of Insanity written by Sharon Deichert and published by Virtualbookworm Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we all knew what lay ahead of us, perhaps we could change the course of our lives before it was too late. Sherry is a very attractive, once widowed, once divorced, middle-aged woman raising four children. Trent is a man twenty years her junior. He's what most women would refer to as the perfect man. In the beginning, when Sherry first meets Trent, she tries to deny the attraction she has for him due to the age difference. But as time goes on, they become closer. Soon Sherry find herself falling deeply in love with him. Living in a fairytale of love and passion, Sherry believes she has finally found her soul mate. But as time progresses, the fairytale world she lives in turns into a nightmare she can't get out of. Blinded by love, and relentlessly holding on to the passion they once shared, she is unknowingly led into a lifestyle of drugs, sex, lies and crime. We all have a limit of what we can deal with in life. Sherry found hers.
Download or read book Edge of Sanity written by Shannon K. Butcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brace yourself for cutting-edge suspense in the scorching third novel of Shannon K. Butcher’s new action-romance series... “I NEED TO KNOW IF ANYONE WAS KILLED LAST NIGHT.” In his years working for the private security firm The Edge, Clay Marshall has seen it all. But the recent blackouts he's been having are new. So is waking up with blood on his hands and clothes, with no memory of where the blood came from—or who he might have killed. He hates to admit it, but he needs help. Dr. Leigh Vaughn has treated other Edge employees before, but from the moment she sees him for the first time, Clay strikes her as a special breed of man. She knows he’s dangerous, and distrustful of doctors, but she finds herself drawn to him even as his own steely exterior gives way to his growing desire for her. Neither knows, however, that Clay is being used as a pawn in a larger experiment, and that his blackouts are only the first step toward a terrifying goal. And both Leigh and Clay will put themselves in harm’s way to stop an unseen enemy—and to save one another.
Download or read book Girl Interrupted written by Susanna Kaysen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
Download or read book Who Do We Choose To Be written by Margaret J. Wheatley and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of her classic Leadership and the New Science, bestselling author Margaret Wheatley once again turns to the new science of living systems to help leaders persevere in a time of great turmoil. I know it is possible for leaders to use their power and influence, their insight and compassion, to lead people back to an understanding of who we are as human beings, to create the conditions for our basic human qualities of generosity, contribution, community and love to be evoked no matter what. I know it is possible to experience grace and joy in the midst of tragedy and loss. I know it is possible to create islands of sanity in the midst of wildly disruptive seas. I know it is possible because I have worked with leaders over many years in places that knew chaos and breakdown long before this moment. And I have studied enough history to know that such leaders always arise when they are most needed. Now it's our turn.
Download or read book The Edge of Sanity written by Chris Thomas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new drug will give you your best—and last—high in this “amazing follow up to Enter the Dark . . . Fast-paced, gruesome and very dark” (The Book Magnet). In a derelict squat, the Smart Man watches as the new narcotic developed by his shadowy organisation wreaks havoc on its unsuspecting victims. The drug is now ready for sale on their exclusive darknet marketplace. Meanwhile, former detective Pete Harris had started a new life away from the Cyber Crimes Unit with his daughter and begins to rekindle his relationship with a former colleague. Unknown to Pete, the retired head of the unit has sought out crime boss Curtis Slater and offered him information—for a price. With his life seemingly complete, Pete’s world comes crashing down as he is drawn into Slater’s game with fatal consequences. He must join forces with his old enemies in a race against time. But can Pete save his loved ones from the clutches of Slater, the Smart Man . . . and a sinister ringmaster? “An action-packed story! Interesting plot threads cleverly woven together, with plenty to keep the reader turning the pages.” —Bibliophile Book Club
Download or read book Die Wise written by Stephen Jenkinson and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places death at the center of the page and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty. Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well. Die Wise is for those who will fail to live forever. Dying well, Jenkinson writes, is a right and responsibility of everyone. It is not a lifestyle option. It is a moral, political, and spiritual obligation each person owes their ancestors and their heirs. Die Wise dreams such a dream, and plots such an uprising. How we die, how we care for dying people, and how we carry our dead: this work makes our capacity for a village-mindedness, or breaks it. Table of Contents The Ordeal of a Managed Death Stealing Meaning from Dying The Tyrant Hope The Quality of Life Yes, But Not Like This The Work So Who Are the Dying to You? Dying Facing Home What Dying Asks of Us All Kids Ah, My Friend the Enemy
Download or read book Edge of Sanity written by Annabel Cook and published by New Fiction. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Reach the Clouds written by Philippe Petit and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, 100,000 people on the ground watched 24-year-old high wire artist Petit make eight crossings between the World Trade Towers. In this visually and verbally stunning book, Petit tells for the first time the story of his walk, from conception and clandestine planning to the performance and its aftermath. 140 illustrations.
Download or read book The Other Side of Sanity written by Daniel Shepley and published by Dsw Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a true story, pushed to the brink of murder and suicide by the therapists he trusted with his secrets, "The Other Side of Sanity" is Daniel Shepley's harrowing account of James Snyder's - Shepley's fictionalized version of himself in the novel - rapid descent into, and gradual emergence from, psychosis and madness. It is a disturbing vision of manipulation and betrayal by the people he entrusted to help him recover. Snyder finds himself in a mental health system under the care of a woman who begins his treatment indifferent to his problems and then more than indifferent, in fact, becomes cruelly manipulative and destructive. The deep and dangerously psychotic state James enters as a result of his incompetent treatment includes ideas of, and plans for, murder and suicide. It is a story all too tragically common in America today: a disturbed young man, filled with an inexplicable rage, who turns that rage outward and murders. Snyder at first finds little hope and little help until he discovers his guide through the dark woods of mental illness, Dr. Solomon Janowitz. It is with Janowitz's patience and kindness that James emerges and assumes the healthy and productive life of a man not "cured," but healing. It is a remarkable and courageous tale of darkness and light, despair and recovery. In its telling, Shepley has created in Snyder and Janowitz characters of a touching and profoundly moving humanity.
Download or read book Edge of Insanity written by S.E. Smith and published by Montana Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Woman on the Edge of Time written by Marge Piercy and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1997-06-23 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity—and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow. Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time “This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. Whether you are reading Marge Piercy’s great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make.”—Gloria Steinem “An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly “Connie Ramos’s world is cuttingly real.”—Newsweek “Absorbing and exciting.”—The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Postcards From the Edge written by Carrie Fisher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** THE NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING CULT CLASSIC NOVEL ** ** In a new edition introduced by Stephen Fry ** ‘I don’t think you can even call this a drug. This is just a response to the conditions we live in.’ Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she’ll cope – and find work – back on the outside, she meets new patient Alex. Ambitious, good-looking in a Heathcliffish way and in the grip of a monumental addiction, he makes Suzanne realize that, however eccentric her life might seem, there’s always someone who’s even closer to the edge of reason. Carrie Fisher’s bestselling debut novel is an uproarious commentary on Hollywood – the home of success, sex and insecurity – and has become a beloved cult classic. ‘This novel, with its energy, bounce and generous delivery of a loud laugh on almost every page, stands as a declaration of war on two fronts: on normal and on unhappy’ STEPHEN FRY ‘A single woman’s answer to Nora Ephron’s Heartburn . . . the smart successor to Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays’ Los Angeles Times ‘A cult classic . . . A wonderfully funny, brash and biting novel’ Washington Post 'A wickedly shrewd black-humor riff on the horrors of rehab and the hollows of Hollywood life' People 'Searingly funny' Vogue
