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Blue Hills Diary: Mystical Journey into Mania captures the author's ascension into the astonishing heights of bipolar mania as it intensifies over a few short months. Written as lyrical prose and...

I drank the cider hoping it would calm me down but it wasn't making anything better. I just looked like a monster and my heart was racing. I felt sick with nerves. I looked up at the clock, I still...

WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE Description 'Body Worship' is a pulsating, page turning, erotic, honest, sexy, outrageous, erudite and engaging real life memoir of an infamous sex goddess/sex...

Description Caught up in the migration boom of the 1960s, the small child moved as a "Ten Pound Pom" for this "better life" promised by her quarrelling parents. From their first new home... a dry,...

Description 'Broken Syntax' was written over a period of a year and a half, after a lengthy hospitalisation. It carries the seeds of rebirth, yet also the melancholy of what most are never meant to...

Description Described as "...probably the most entertaining account of mania you'll ever read...", this raw, inspirational, story shows that a man can live a full, productive life with a serious...

By Terence Beresford ISBN: 9781847471086 Published: 2007 Pages: 173 Key Themes: poetry, manic depression, bi-polar disorder, grief DescriptionTerry Beresford's Poems describe the experiences of manic...

Charon's Ferry is intended as a sequel to A Pillar of Impotence. It is a story of life after mental health recovery set against the backdrop of a post 9/11 world. It takes the reader out of maze of...

Description Some 218,000 men and women with severe psychiatric disorders are incarcerated in an American prison or county jail. Most committed violent crimes -- sometimes murder -- while propelled by...

This book is a must for everyone who lived through the pre-war and war years. I found it so fascinating and accurate in every detail, and had great difficulty in putting it down even to eat: Those of...

Description A varied collection of parents' stories about raising children and teenagers with Aspergers. The contributors have bravely written totally honest, deeply moving and sometimes harrowing...

Description Choose Life tells of a journey of personal growth and development, set against the realities of a stressful modern lifestyle. It shows the search for meaning and fulfilment in life, and...

Key Themes: Kanner's autism, carer's story "From beggining to end this book kept me riveted and on an emotional rollercoaster. Julie brings Kanner's Autism sharply into focus, with all the trials and...

Description Christopher's Story II has been written after the success of the original paperback, published in the hope of raising awareness of (Kanner's) autism and severe challenging behaviour. It...

The Child Within the Man By Julie Telfer ISBN: 978-1-84747-128-4 Published: 2007 Pages: 224 Key Themes: Kanner's autism, carer's story Description Christopher's Story was written for my son in the...

Unleashing The Terminator Within By Dave Jordan ISBN: 9781847471208 Published: 2007 Pages: 120 Key Themes: DescriptionThis is the story of how, through naivity and misfortune, I transgressed from a...

In the fall of 1986 I survived a suicide attempt after feeling desponded and tired of dealing with my clinical depression. I had done everything within my power to overcome my feelings of...

Description An account of the pain inflicted on sufferers of manic depression (Bipolar Disorder), their family and those around them. 'Peter was with us for 6 weeks. At first it was like having a...

Description This book is not any sort of professional manual on Asperger's Syndrome nor yet an autobiography. It comprises a revealing series of Essays on Ron's experiences and speculations in the...

Philip Hill was the youngest of a family of four and was born on the same day as his twin brother Paul. His elder brother was Peter and sister Anita, Philip never saw his father but was reunited with...

Description I have tried to portray the time leading up to my schizophrenia and the experience of psychosis. I have described how I felt in the world of psychiatry especially in relation to the use...

Description African Caribbeans are 44% more likely to be sectioned, 29% more likely to be forcibly restrained, 50% more likely to be placed in seclusion, and make up 30% of in-patients on medium...

Crossing Out The Emperor is an exploration into the states of mind of Beethoven in various states of love and deafness, and Napoleon during his invasion of Russia in 1812. Are these states of mind...

By Cairns Clery ISBN: 9781847471161 Published: 2007 Pages: 414 Key Themes: grief, suicidal thoughts, gender-dysphoria, schizophrenia, self-harm, eating disorders Description Cuckoo Club is a...

Curing MadnessAuthor: J. PeglerPublisher: Chipmunka PublishingPublication Date: Jan 01, 2006Number of Pages: 232 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1904697852ISBN-13: 9781904697855

Description When student nurse Brenda Dalton starts work at her local mental hospital, she finds the place being run by tyrannical Senior Nurse Rawsthorne. When Brenda reports Rawsthorne for bullying...

Description This book includes a true story about reaching the very edge, the very depths and heights of bipolar illness, but almost always with a sense of humour. Much like a car crash, people...

Description I have been in and out of a lot of different institutions since the age of six. The first time I was admitted was to the Mary Burbury unit at Burnley general hospital. I have been to...

Defective V.2 is an extremely loaded rollercoaster honestly. In some ways, as my second book, it does pick up where the last one ends...chronologically. It so happens I was forced into a dark corner...

Adventures in Schizophrenia By Richard M Clements ISBN: 9781847471260 Published: 2007 Pages: 330 Key Themes: schizophrenia, medication, mental health services "Obsession with a celebrity - in my...