"A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side--in this powerful and inspiring memoir. Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities, friends, and loving parents at home. But after awakening from...

This work is about the art of living mentally well. Told through the first-hand experience of mental health advocate, activist and speaker Kevin Hines (who has bipolar disorder), the story is an honest account of the struggle to live mentally well, and teach others how to do the same. It educates the public about mental illness and helps anyone reading find hope in any situation.

A wry, sympathetic, brazenly honest account of living with anxiety, coupled with deep reportage on the science of anxiety disorders. -- A racing heart. Difficulty breathing. Overwhelming dread. Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been experiencing panic attacks since childhood. With time her symptoms multiplied. She agonized over every odd physical sensation. She developed...

Depression, a medical disorder distinct from sadness or grief, affects people around the world of all ages, though many of them are not diagnosed or do not receive adequate treatment. This book explains the symptoms of depression, how it can vary across i

Use the power of food to improve your brain health with this revolutionary 4-week diet plan: boost your memory, enhance your mood, say goodbye to "brain fog", reduce the risk of dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other brain disorders. As links between gut health and cognitive function become ever more evident, it has never been more important to learn which foods to eat to keep our brains healthy. Whatever your health or stage of life, this diet...

"Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin reveals that disordered eating is an epidemic crisis killing millions of women. Women of all ages struggle with disordered eating, preoccupation with food, and body anxiety. Journalist Cole Kazdin was one such woman, and she set out to see if the impossibility of her own full recovery from an eating disorder was all in her head. Interviewing women across...

Here, best-selling author Dr. Steven Masley "writes for the first time in a book about how the brain can become insulin resistant through diet and lifestyle--and how and why it can lead to cognitive decline and memory loss--and shows us how to prevent and reverse this potentially devastating condition."--Dust jacket. In this important book, Dr. Masley writes of the two exploding epidemics we are facing today: rapidly increasing rates of type 2 diabetes...