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Privacy and mental health, NL and UK
Privacy and mental health, an overview and some thoughts. Read more -
Check in on those around you – #YouAreNotAlone
At times, it can be obvious when someone is struggling to cope. But sometimes the signs are harder to spot. Check in on those around you. #YouAreNotAlone Read more -
I’m glad my mom died – Jennette McCurdy
I’m Glad My Mom died by Jennette McCurdy is an inspiring tale of resilience, independence and the joy of washing your own hair. Read more -
The Varieties of Spiritual Experience – David Yaden, Andrew Newberg
Spiritual experiences have occurred within people around the world and throughout history, up to and including the present day. Yup, but nowadays science tries to make sense of it. Read more -
One step at a time!
Quote of the week: "One step at a time." Read more -
Highly recommended: Spiritual Awakenings – Scientists and Academics discovering Spirituality
Review of the book Spiritual Awakenings. Definitely 1 to read! Read more -
Brain Energy – Christopher M. Palmer MD
We are in the midst of a global mental health crisis, and mental illnesses are on the rise. But what causes mental illness? Read more -
We make Clocks, not Time – John F. Gerrard
In this book, John F. Gerrard relates his lived experience with paranoia, delusions of grandeur, and other mental health concerns Read more -
Strangers to ourselves – Rachel Aviv
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Read more -
Better Days – Craig Lewis
This book helps those aspiring toward recovery and also those in recovery -in basic ways- to make cognitive adjustments in how they live their lives. Read more -
Open Dialogue for Psychosis – Nick Putman, Brian Martindale
This highly readable book provides a comprehensive examination of the use of Open Dialogue as a treatment for psychosis. It presents the basic principles and practice of Open Dialogue, explains the training needed to practice and explores how it is being developed internationally. Read more -
Clinical, societal and personal recovery in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across time
In this study, the researchers analyze clinical, social and personal recovery of people with a disorder on the schizophrenia spectrum over time in one model. Read more -
A poem by Aya de Jager – on extreme states
Aya de Jager tries to let her psychotic experiences flow into words for the healing of thoughts and feelings. A poem. Read more -
A Road Back from Schizophrenia: A Memoir – Arnhild Lauveng
A Road Back from Schizophrenia gives extraordinary insight into the logic (and life) of a schizophrenic. Read more -
The Pocket Guide to Polyvagal Theory – Stephen W. Porges
Publication of this work enables Stephen Porges to expand the meaning and clinical relevance of this groundbreaking theory. Read more -
Living with Voices – Marius Romme
This book is a groundbreaking development in modern mental health because it recognises the importance of the first hand experience. Read more -
A poem from Aya de Jager
Aya de Jager tries to let her psychotic experiences flow into words for the healing of thoughts and feelings. A poem. Read more -
Anatomy of an Epidemic – Robert Whitaker
Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Read more -
Cause of death: Unknown – Anniken Hoel
The inner workings and motivations of a powerful industry that continually puts profits before people, Read more -
Mind Fixers – Anne Harrington
Anne Harrington explores psychiatry’s repeatedly frustrated efforts to understand mental disorder. Read more -
The Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Workbook for Psychosis – Maggie Mullen
In this workbook, you’ll learn the core skills of DBT to help you feel better: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness. Read more -
This Too Shall Pass – Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings – Julia Samuel
Intimate stories about everyday people will inform our understanding of our own unique response to change. Read more -
Healing – Our path from mental illness to mental health – Thomas Insel
Healing is a hopeful, actionable account and achievable vision for us all in this time of mental health crisis. Read more -
My beautiful psychosis – Emma Goude
The psychiatric system has forgotten that 'psyche' means soul. All they know about is medication and they have ways of making her take it. Read more -
The Nature Connection Handbook – Miles Richardson
There has been growing use of nature connection principles and practices across a range of sectors mental health. Read more -
Buddhify – Meditation App
You’ll find guided meditations for Walking, Stress & Difficult Emotion, Work Break, Going to Sleep, Waking Up and many other different categories. Read more -
Medicating Normal – Lynn Cunningham
The film's subjects struggle with serious physical and mental side effects, as well as lasting neurological damage from taking the drugs as prescribed. Read more -
Sleepio – A digital program to help you sleep
Sleepio is an online sleep improvement program proven to help you clear your mind, get better sleep, and have better days. Read more -
Catch it – Understand your mood
The app was designed to illustrate some of the key principles of psychological approaches to mental health and well-being. Read more -
The importance of suffering – James Davies
A new perspective on emotional discontent and discusses how we can engage with it clinically, personally and socially. Read more -
Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
At the heart of Frankl’s theory of logotherapy is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure but rather the discovery and pursuit of what the individual finds meaningful. Read more -
The Choice – Edith Eva Eger
Edith Eger explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and shows us how to find the key to freedom. Read more -
Confidence Culture – Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill
Imperatives directed at women to “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks rather than social injustices hold women back. Read more -
The Truman Show – Peter Weir
Utterly unaware of the thousands of cleverly hidden cameras , Truman's existence pivots around the imagination of a television producer. Read more -
A Beautiful Mind – Ron Howard
In 1959, Nash began showing clear signs of mental illness, and spent several years at psychiatric hospitals being treated for schizophrenia. Read more -
Black Swan – Darren Aronofsky
Nina is overwhelmed by a feeling of pressure when she finds herself competing for the role, causing her to lose her tenuous grip on reality. Read more -
eMoods – Bipolar Mood Tracker
eMoods is an app for patients to track symptom data relating to Bipolar I and II disorders, Depression, PTSD, and Anxiety Disorders. Read more -
Headspace – Mindfullness App
Hundreds of guided meditations on everything from stress to focus to relationships. Stories, soundscapes, and music to help you sleep. Read more -
Daylio – Mood Tracker
You can create a daily entry in two taps – pick mood and activities. We crunch data and display them in stats, charts, and correlations. Read more -
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: young, brilliant, beautiful, and enormously talented, but slowly going under. Read more -
Reasons to Stay Alive – Matt Haig
This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. Read more -
Atlas of the Heart – Brené Brown
Naming an experience doesn’t give the experience more power—it gives us the power of understanding, meaning, and choice. Read more -
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing – Perry and Winfrey
In conversation throughout the book, she and Dr. Perry focus on understanding people, behavior, and ourselves. Read more -
Loving Someone with Bipolar – Fast and Preston
Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder offers information and step-by-step advice for helping your partner manage. Read more -
Surviving Schizophrenia – Louise Gillett
I am a married mother of four children, a housewife. What some people don't know is that I have a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Read more -
The Kundalini Experience – Lee Sannella
Psychiatrist Lee Sanneli, cofounder of the Kundalini Clinic in San Francisco, differentiates this from a psychotic episode. Read more -
The Collected Schizophrenias – Esme Weijun Wang
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness. Read more -
Crazywise – A documentary by Phil Borges
"Psychotic" symptoms as an indicator of shamanic potential. Phil Borges is intrigued by how differently psychosis is in the West. Read more -
Down Below – Leonora Carrington
In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. Read more -
Hidden Valley Road – Robert Kolker
By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. An amazing story by Robert Kolker. Read more -
Anti-Oedipus Capitalism and Schizophrenia – Deleuze and Guattari
Those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense. Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Read more -
Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder – Julie Fast and John Preston
An effective program that helps readers promote stability, reduce the risk of suicide, increase work ability and more. Read more -
Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs – Will Hall
The best information we've come across and the most valuable lessons we've learned about reducing and coming off psychiatric medication. Read more -
Marriage and Schizophrenia – Andrew and Stephanie Downing
This story chronicles challenges met and victories realized while living with schizophrenia. A book about Marriage and Schizophrenia. Read more -
What about me? – Paul Verhaeghe
Paul Verhaeghe’s main concern is how social change has led to this psychic crisis and altered the way we think about ourselves. Read more -
Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 – Cho Nam-Joo
Jiyoung’s entire life is recounted to the psychiatrist with disparate elements of frustration, perseverance, and submission. Read more -
Nobody’s normal – Roy Richard Grinker
Nobody’s Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history. A book by Roy Richard Grinker. Read more -
Tallahassee – Darine Hotait
A young woman checks out of a psychiatric facility after an accidental overdose and feels pressure to lie to her family. Read more -
The Comfort Book – Matt Haig
It’s a collection of stories written over a span of several years that originally served as gentle reminders to Haig’s future self. Read more -
The Laid-Back Schizophrenic – Lamont Derrickson
Lamont Derrickson brings truth, humor, rawness, and his real-life experience to a book that everyone with schizophrenia simply must read. Read more -
The fat lady sings – Jacqueline Roy
Roy creates a striking portrait of two women finding strength in their shared vulnerability, as they navigate a system that fails to protect them. Read more -
The idea of the brain – Matthew Cobb
Thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet we still have only the vaguest idea of how the brain works. Read more -
Maybe I don’t belong here – David Harewood
Being Black, British and vulnerable to psychosis, David Harewood wrote down his book Maybe I don't belong here from crisis. Read more -
The worrier’s guide to life – Gemma Correll
For all you fellow agonizers, fretters, and nervous wrecks, this book is for you. Read it and weep...with laughter. Read more -
Toxic positivity – Whitney Goodman
Even when faced with illness, loss, breakups, and other challenges, there’s little space for talking about our real feelings. Read more
