Mental Illness: A Guide to Recovery
Product Description
Mental Illness: A Guide to Recovery gives you information, gleaned from many sources, which can help you learn to recover. Coping skills needed to deal with the illness can be developed. Materials which can help you reduce symptoms are presented. Recovery does not happen overnight, but step by step, most can make significant recovery.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall… and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again. The same holds true for those of us with a mental illness. The psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, etc. can assist, but it is up to the individual to create conditions which will allow recovery to happen.
The neurobiological basis of mental illness is often presented in a fatalistic way. That’s the brain chemistry you’ve got, and that’s what you’re stuck with; as if the individual was unable to change the chemistry inside his or her own head. Breathing changes brain chemistry. So does excercise, the food you eat, the words you speak, the thoughts you think as well as how often you smile.
While drugs are capable of making radical changes in the chemistry of the brain, it is the slow changes over time which will help most in recovery.
“Thorough and informative without being technical…facinating…very enlightening.” Psychiatric Rehabilition Journal (Fall 2004 Vol.28 No.2)
“You have made a complex issue easier to understand.” Chief Kathryn Landreth, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police.
Mental Illness: A Guide to Recovery
Robert S. Bennett said,
Wrote on July 7, 2010 @ 11:20 am
“..offer .. hope for the future..presents his views without bias.. chapters are thorough and informative without being technical.. segment on grief touched on all its stages from shock to denial, from bargaining to anger, from guilt to acceptance. That these schema affect ‘just about everyone’ is a fact – how their effects help to define mental illness is the facinating part. The author goes on to help the reader understand his/her schema in various ways..powerfully presents a first hand accountof his own process to not only understand his schema but also reducing the effects they played in his illness. Another important segment has to do with journaling..the details of each excercise and how it can be used on the road to recovery is very enlightening. Throughout the book he evokes moments of anger, sadness, love and a host of emotions on his road to recovery. The reader comes away with the feeling of wanting to know more about his life.” From Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, published by Boston University, Vol. 28 No. 2 Fall 2004
Rating: 5 / 5
Bridget Mary Rodriguez said,
Wrote on July 7, 2010 @ 12:42 pm
I needed practical info on how to recover after mental illness but this book half is about the author himself and half is about how the brain functions so not so good.
Rating: 1 / 5