In 'Learning to live with bipolar disorder' Jane McGraham describes the early warning signs that help her to recognize changes in her moods and the action plans she uses to cope with mood changes. This book will be of interest to those who, like Jane, live with a mental disorder. Despite years of physical, sexual and emotional abuse she was often described as 'Jane the Dauntless' by her father. To the outside world, Jane was a happy child, but inwardly she had lived a lot of her life in a glas...
The hegemonic meaning of depression as a universal mental illness embodied by an individualized subject is propped up by psychiatry's clinical gaze. Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism turns to the work of contemporary filmmakers who express a shared concern for mental health under global capitalism to explore how else depression can be perceived. In taking their critical visions as intercessors for thought, Adam Szymanski proposes a thoroughly relational understanding of depression attentive to eve...
The World is Full of Laughter (Memoir on Mental Distress S., #2)
by Dolly Norah Sen