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81) Someone like me
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A gentle, devoted mother hides the dark and malicious side of her personality until it takes control, triggering devastating consequences.
Divorceé Liz Kendall is devoted to her two kids, and most people who know her know that she wouldn't hurt a fly. But there's another side to Liz-- one that's dark and malicious. She will do anything to get her way, no matter how extreme. And when this alter ego takes control, the consequences are devastating....
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Pub. Date
2023
Description
"Bestselling author and neuroscientist offers simple, scientifically proven steps to help parents show their children how to overcome the unhealthy thinking habits that contribute to anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts, so they can replace them with positive thinking that leads to health, happiness, and success"--
85) Teen suicide
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ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Describes issues surrounding teen suicide, how these issues affect individuals and society, and how they are being addressed"--
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Both a resource for struggling veterans and a useful tool for their loved ones or anyone looking for ways to support the veterans in their lives.
Too often American veterans return from combat and spiral into depression, anger and loneliness they can neither share nor tackle on their own. This guide seeks to aid our troubled, returning forces by dissecting the numerous mental health problems they face upon arriving stateside. The authors detail not...
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Mason Crest
Pub. Date
2004
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Geared toward young adults and filled with interesting case studies and sidebars, the user-friendly text in this series provides readable overviews of brain chemistry and function, the history of psychiatric drug treatment, possible adverse reactions, and alternative therapies. Each volume includes glossary sidebars, as well as "Further Reading, " and "For More Information" sections. This series will make psychiatric disorders and their treatments...
91) Destructive emotions: how can we overcome them? : a scientific collaboration with the Dalai Lama
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003
Description
A dialogue between the Dalai Lama and a group of scientists and philosophers unites research in education, psychology, and neuroscience with Buddhist practice to discuss how to cope with, transform, and eliminate negative emotions.
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Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
For the last decade, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Asprey has worked with doctors and scientists to uncover innovative methods for making humans perform better -- a process known as "biohacking." In his first book, The Bulletproof Diet, he shared his biohacking tips for taking control of your own biology. Now, in Head Strong, Asprey shows readers how to biohack their way to a sharper, smarter, faster, more resilient brain. Imagine feeling like...
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep...
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Visionalist Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Death Is Not the Answer delves deeply into the complex, often misunderstood world of depression and suicide. This PBS documentary features many of the nation's most respected mental health professionals. The film also offers enlightened thoughts of how we can find contentment and happiness through mind-body health, diet and music. We explore the world of firefighters, first responders and police, featuring Oakland County Sheriff Bouchard and Detroit...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
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"This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It's also my love letter to autistic people. For too long, we have been forced to navigate a world where all the road signs are written in another language."--
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"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Over thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses--anorexia, major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and bipolar disorder. Pathological is the gripping story of what it was like to live with those diagnoses, and the crippling impact each had on her life. It is also a rigorous investigation into the Diagnostic and Statistical...
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Free Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
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Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes and can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. he can learn new languages to fluency in a week, and in 2004 he memorized and recited more than 22,000digits of pi, setting a record. he has Savant syndrome, but is capable of living an independent life, and has written this extraordinary autobiography.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Cecily Strong had a special bond with her cousin Owen. And so she was devastated when, in early 2020, he passed away at age thirty from the brain cancer glioblastoma. Before Strong could attempt to process her grief, another tragedy struck: the coronavirus pandemic. Following a few harrowing weeks in the virus epicenter of New York City, Strong relocated to an isolated house in the woods upstate. Here, trying to make sense of Owen's death and the...
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