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Strength to Live

Mental disorders abound and affect many around us. If you don't struggle, you likely know someone who does. Here are some reads that will bring you face to face with those who live it. Along with the tools that may be life-changing. Kay Jamison's Night falls Fast provides information to help us understand different disorders and what a loved one can do, things not to do, and ways to help themselves while supporting another they care about.

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  • Cracked, Not Broken

    Surviving and Thriving After a Suicide Attempt

    Hines, Kevin
    We are here for a reason, living with a mental disorder CAN still have a bright future. This is a remarkable life that kept on keeping on. It was a hard one to read, yet instills hope.
    eAudiobookTantor Media, Inc., 2018
  • Night Falls Fast

    Understanding Suicide

    Jamison, Kay R.
    Author of The Unquiet Mind, Night Falls Fast is my #1 choice for anyone desiring to understand mental illness. Imagine "miserableness", now, "hope". If you are a friend, parent, spouse, or sibling and there is mental illness in your world,…
    BookNew York : Vintage Books, 2000. — 616.85 Jami
  • Mind Over Mood

    Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think

    Greenberger, Dennis
    Recondition how we react to life situations in a step by step (workbook) to deal head on with mind and mood. Using cognitive behavior therapy to help reshape a way of thinking, understand why we think about things in certain ways and the…
    BookNew York, NY : Guilford Press, [2016] — 616.8914 Gree
  • Originally published in 1968, I found myself wondering if James Allen had a jump on "reconditioning ourselves", it was surprising how much seems to be talked about in self-help books now that he wrote in his book. Organize your Life, Think…
    eBookDuke Classics
  • Your Vivid Life

    An Invitation to Live a Radically Authentic Life

    Traviss, Shayne,
    Live your own life, joyfully. Learn how to question yourself to find out who you are, there is more to you and I than what the world leads us to believe!
    UnknownHolland, Ohio : Dreamscape Media, LLC, [2019] — CD 158.1 Trav
  • Are you taking things too personally? Making assumptions? Want to know yourself better?
    eAudiobookAuthor's Republic, 2019
  • I have only started this book, just into the first few pages and am excited to be learning of a new take on anxiety.
    BookNew York : Dey Street, an imprint of William Morrow, [2018] — 616.8522 Wils
  • Furiously Happy

    a Funny Book About Horrible Things

    Lawson, Jenny, 1979-
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2015. — 814.6 Laws
  • Furiously Happy

    A Funny Book About Horrible Things

    Lawson, Jenny
    eBookFlatiron Books, 2015
  • The Happiness Trap

    How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

    Harris, Russ
    eBookShambhala, 2008
  • The End of Mental Illness

    How Brain Science Is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorde

    Daniel G. Amen, M. D.
    eBookTyndale House Publishers, 2020
  • The End of Mental Illness

    How Neuroscience Is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ADHD, Addictions, PTSD, Psychosis, Personality Disorders, and More

    Amen, Daniel G.,
    BookCarol Stream, Illinois : Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, [2020] — 616.89 Amen