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by Jember Teferra ISBN 13: 978 1 84747 009 6 Published: 2006 Pages:135 DescriptionWritten by his mother, this is the tragic story of Abi, a young man from Ethiopia who took his own life after a...

Description A large part of Britain's care home sector has in recent years been outsourced to private companies. From time to time appalling conditions in some of these homes are disclosed to the...

Description The book consists of 30 Nursery Rhymes and 6 true case histories about Addicts the Author met during research for the book. Craig O'halloran was found dead in the gutter after overdosing...

Description This is Lorriane's second book with Chipmunka and picks up two years on from the end of her last book. She charts the changes in her life and the changes which she has positively sought...

Description Sera Anstadt's touching story of her son's schizophrenia and autism was published in Holland in 1980 and soon went through numerous reprinting and became a minor classic. Raf (short for...

Description Altered Perception is an eighteen month daily journey from an acute psychiatric hospital admission prior to my 2009 acute psychiatric admission via HMP Holloway Women's Prison. This...

by Dolly Sen ISBN: 978 1 905610 94 5 Published: 2006 Pages: 183 Description About the Author Author, poet and activist Dolly Sen lives in Streatham, South London. Born in 1970, she had her first...

Amitriptyline Queen is a memoir of mental illness, drug addiction, love, and recovery. It is the story of one girl's ability to overcome mental illness through self analysis and writing. After years...

Description This book is the biography of Helen Maczkowiack's son, Stephen, who suffered from schizophrenia and took his own life at just 29. It captures the haunting story of a young man's desperate...

Description This work analyzes the insanity of world civilisation, pointing out how delusions such as racism, sexism, homophobia, regionalism, ableism, speciesism, and the slavery to the beauty...

And for a Moment Everything Seemed Fine SynopsisThis book is a treatise on suffering. It is the contention of this book, that we can use the suffering we encounter to improve our lives. It is a...

Description This is a moving story of how an ordinary family learnt to cope with the incurable, debilitating and often terminal disease of Pancreatitis. The first symptoms appeared when Andrew was...

Description Angel Just-Rights tells of a plethora of mortifyingly unhealthy, demoralising, ritualistic and compelling behaviours that manifest deeply in a fragile life so touched by the world around...

Description This book tells the story of my battles within the mental health system over the last fourteen years. I have, from a psychiatrist's perspective, variously been diagnosed as hypomanic,...

During an unstable childhood, Tom's mental health began to wane and, after two members of his family committed suicide, Tom found himself sectioned under The Mental Health Act, at just sixteen years...

Description Bajan Affair is Pauline Pearce's 2nd publication by Chipmunka. It is written in diary format as an uplifting, humorous account of a holiday she spent on the Caribbean island of Barbados...

Description Barsteadworth College is a book about workplace bullying, the damage it causes and institutional suppression of the truth about both. Workplace bullying is a hot contemporary topic. It...

"Bathed in Blue; Richly Informative. Ms. Ross does not only give us a resourceful reference for bipolar disorder but also a fascinating narrative of her daughter's suicidal process." - By Dr Paul...

Description An eventually uplifting tale of one man's battle to overcome depression, or 'The Devil' as the author calls it. As Kris Kristofferson wrote in one of his most memorable songs: - 'You see...

The Anatomy of a Suicide by Dorothy Schwarz ISBN: 1-904697-20-8 ISBN 13: 978-1904697-20-6 Published: 2005 Pages: 158 Description This book is the gripping and emotional portrayal of one young woman's...

A collection of poetry, stories and diary excerpts from individuals who have been affected by self-harm. This book aims to raise awareness of self-harm, and to improve the general understanding of...

Description Prolific artist and author Maureen Oliver brings us her autobiography. This is the story of Maureen's activism, her fight against mental illness, the travels, the traumas and the ups and...

Description This book describes a journey through the Mental Health system, where Josephine Brown has stood many times in defence of her son, David, at first aged just 13 years old. This mother...

Key Themes: abuse in care homes, whistle-blowing, failures of legal system, true story. Book Description and About the Author Eileen is one of the unsung heroines of our time. Years ago when I...

Neil Walton ISBN: 9781847471239 Published: 2007 Pages: 220 Key Themes: Bi-Polar Description This book is about a Bi Polar Author, this story is about a man struggle with drink and a number of family...

This book is about the reality of coping with Bi-polar Disorder when it has devastated your world. It's about living with Bi-polar on benefits as opposed to, say, Bi-polar on Bollinger, which is all...

By Stephen Broughton ISBN: 9781847470799 Published: 2007 Pages: 274 Key Themes: humour, suicidal thoughts, abuse Description one man's journey of discovery finding mental ill health as a gift...

Description Diagnosed with severe ADHD and bipolar disorder, Billy Hawthorne faced a steep uphill battle to control his mental illness and beat his debilitating addictions to alcohol and DXM...

Ray Loyd Tune lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he manages his real estate and other investments. He received his MBA from Texas A&M, Commerce, Texas in 1978 and went on to manage operations for...

Description: A Can of Madness A Can of Madness is the most honest autobiography ever written on manic depression and the pioneering patient's memoir of its generation. A vivid, honest and sometimes...