Mental Health Awareness Month 5/23 Learning Center | Westchester Library System

1) The borderline personality disorder workbook: an integrative program to understand and manage your BPD

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"Introducing a breakthrough, integrative approach to managing your borderline personality disorder (BPD). If you've been diagnosed with BPD, you may feel a number of emotions--including shock, shame, sadness, abandonment, emptiness, or even anger. Even worse, you may be tempted to research your diagnosis online, only to find doomsday scenarios and terrible prognoses everywhere you click. Take a deep breath. You can get through this--and this workbook...

2) Stop walking on eggshells: taking your life back when someone you care about has borderline personality disorder

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"Stop Walking on Eggshells has already helped more than a million people with friends and family members suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD) understand this difficult disorder, set boundaries, and help their loved ones to stop relying ondangerous behaviors. This fully revised and updated third edition includes the very latest BPD research, extensive new information on narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), comorbidity and the effectiveness...

3) Psychopharmacology: straight talk on mental health medications

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Wegmann, Joseph

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"This is the definitive guide and desk reference for healthcare professionals and patients to expand their knowledge in the pharmacological and behavioral treatment of psychosis, anxiety, depression, bipolar, insomnia and ADHD." --

4) A molecule away from madness: tales of the hijacked brain

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Peskin, Sara Manning

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"A neurologist regales readers with extraordinary stories of the brain under siege. Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: The very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are true accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake, from total loss of inhibitions to florid psychosis to compulsive lying. Cognitive neurologist Sara Manning Peskin demystifies...

5) Stop walking on eggshells for parents: how to help your child (of any age) with borderline personality disorder without losing yourself

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Based on the self-help classic, Stop Walking on Eggshells, this essential guide offers powerful skills and strategies for parenting a child of any age with borderline personality disorder (BPD)-without sacrificing their family or themselves. If you have a child with BPD, you are all-too-aware of the behavioral and emotional issues that are linked to this disorder-including rages, self-harm, sexual acting out, substance abuse, suicidal behaviors, physical...

6) Beyond madness: the pain and possibilities of serious mental illness

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Pruchno, Rachel

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"This book provides concrete, evidence-based strategies for helping people with serious mental illness. It explains how to find competent health care providers, identify treatment regimens that can quell the symptoms of mental illness, overcome obstacles to treatment, and make decisions"--

7) The depression toolkit: quick relief to improve mood, increase motivation & feel better now

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Knaus, William J

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"In our increasingly stressful world, it's easy for anyone to feel overwhelmed. But for people with depression, overwhelm can be devastating. Written by an all-star team of self-help experts and authors, this compilation gives readers quick relief for their worst depression symptoms. Readers will learn fast-acting techniques-grounded in mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and behavioral activation-to...

8) Eating disorders: a comprehensive guide to medical care and complications

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"A guide for health care providers on how to diagnosis, treat, and care for those with eating disorders. Four new chapters have been added to the fourth edition"--

9) Brave every day

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Camila is filled with worry and fear, but when she hides during a class field trip to the aquarium, she finds a classmate who is also afraid and needs a friend.

10) Girls on the Brink : Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media

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Nakazawa, Donna Jackson

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"Anyone on the front lines of caring for girls today-parents, school nurses, guidance counselors-knows that girls are more anxious and more prone to depression and self-harming than ever before. New science confirms this a biologically-rooted phenomenon, set in motion by the earlier onset of puberty, the evolutionary predisposition of the female brain to react to perceived threats, and the many new social pressures (like social media and entrenched...

11) Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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New York Times bestseller

One of the top ten books of the year at The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, Vulture/New York magazine
A best book of the year at Los Angeles Times, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bookforum, The New Yorker, Vogue, Kirkus
The acclaimed, award-winning New

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12) The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook

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Bourne, Edmund J

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"Now in its sixth edition and recommended by therapists worldwide, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook has been the unparalleled, essential resource for people struggling with anxiety and phobias for almost thirty years. Living with anxiety, panic disorders, or phobias can make you feel like you aren't in control of your life. If you're ready to tackle the fears that hold you back, this book is your go-to guide. Packed with the most effective skills for...

13) More than stress: understanding anxiety disorders

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Pedrick, Cherry

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"Many teens struggle with anxiety disorders, the symptoms of which include elevated stress hormone levels, depression, and heart problems. The prevalence of anxiety disorders among today, and teens makes this a timely, informative, and helpful book for readers. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and diagnosis of anxiety disorders as well as coping strategies and treatments. Resources for identifying, managing, and treating anxiety disorders are provided...

14) The Anxiety Antidote: How Awareness and Action Can Lead to Self-control and Inner Peace

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15) The concise guide to bipolar disorder

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Mondimore, Francis Mark

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"The author, a psychiatrist, distills everything readers need to know about bipolar disorder. In down-to-earth language, he explains what bipolar disorder is and how readers can live their best life with the help of medications, therapy, the support of family and friends, and medical care. This is a resource for the newly diagnosed or those seeking rapid answers to the most common questions about bipolar disorder." --

16) Becoming fluent in LEAP: how to get to partnering

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Amador, Xavier Francisco

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"This book was written because countless readers of I am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help! have told me that LEAP has worked for them to repair relationships, but they still stumble and don’t know how to get to the “Partner” phase. They want to know how to use LEAP to influence behavior change such as acceptance of treatment. They forget to reflectively listen, or how to delay giving contrary hurtful opinion, or how to give their opinion using...

17) I am not sick, I don't need help!: how to help someone accept treatment

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Amador, Xavier Francisco

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"'This book fills a tremendous void...' wrote E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., about the first edition of I AM NOT SICK, I Don't Need Help! Twenty years later, it still does. Dr. Amador's research on poor insight was inspired by his success helping his brother Henry, who had schizophrenia, accept treatment. Like tens of millions of others diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and addictions, Henry did not believe he was ill. In this latest edition,...

18) Bipolar bear: a fable for adults

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Founds, Kathleen

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"A graphic novel about navigating the US medical insurance system and receiving fair and adequate coverage for mental illness. Based on the author's own experience in being treated for bipolar disorder." --

19) The anxiety and depression workbook for teens: simple CBT skills to help you deal with anxiety, worry, and sadness

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Tompkins, Michael A

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Manage your anxiety and depression, and take charge of your life with this fun and engaging workbook. As a teen, you're going through a lot. School is becoming more challenging, your friendships and other relationships are more complicated, and your emotions may feel overwhelming at times. And while every teen has a passing case of "the blues" when a friendship hits a bump or an exam doesn't go well, if you're a teen with anxiety and depression,...

20) Mama's Days

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Diehn, Andi/ Ruiz, ℓngeles (ILT)