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You're about to discover how medication helps the symptoms of mental illness. Often, the side effects are the main reason most people stop taking medication. Some side effects can be temporary, though, and will improve over time as your body adjusts to the medication. Learn why it's important to take your medication and how it'll improve your mental health symptoms.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to successfully and comfortably live with someone with a mental illness in your home. Mental illness is stated as any of the various disorders in which a person’s thoughts, emotions, or behavior are so abnormal as to cause suffering to himself, herself, or other people or any other of the various disorders or diseases characterized by abnormal patterns of thought and behavior. So just talk to the person. You must learn about the illness if the person you care for has been given a diagnosis. This is one of the ways that can help you understand how it affects them and can help you feel more confident caring for them.

Art has been used as a means of communication, self-expression, group interaction, diagnosis, and conflict resolution throughout history. For thousands of years, cultures and religions around the world have incorporated the use of carved idols and charms, as well as sacred paintings and symbols, in the healing process. The establishment of art therapy as a unique and publicly accepted therapeutic approach only took place recently, in the mid-20th century.

Relationships are always easy when they first start. Both individuals are on their best behavior. They wear their best clothes, are very polite, and put in a lot of love and effort. But sometimes, despite the initial excitement and all those promises made, things don't go the way they were planned. 

This book contains proven steps and strategies to help you tackle binge eating and bulimia nervosa. It will also help you to develop a healthier relationship with food. Just like binge eaters, sufferers of bulimia nervosa go to great lengths to make up for overeating. Prolonged fasting, excessive exercising, self-induced vomiting, and taking unnecessary laxatives are all symptoms of the illness. Bulimia, more specifically known as bulimia nervosa, is an eating disorder that can if not addressed cause serious damage to the body and mind.

You're about to discover how the themes of spirituality and psychotherapy have regularly been contentious in writing on schizophrenia treatment. A few specialists have contended that religion had no space in the psychotherapy setting, given treatment should be grounded in science. Be that as it may, current research shows numerous potential advantages of coordinating issues of religion and spirituality into psychotherapy for people with schizophrenia.

One of the most highly publicized personality disorders is borderline personality disorder (BPD). Research shows that about 11% of people who seek outpatient treatment, and about 19% of those treated in inpatient settings have BPD. And about 74% of those diagnosed with BPD are women. According to the DSM-V, the American Psychological Association's diagnostic manual, in order to diagnose a person with BPD, they must manifest a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affect, accompanied by marked impulsivity.

This book contains the framework to understanding suicide, methods on suicide prevention, and causes of suicide. Suicide is not a new phenomenon. Strikingly, accounts of suicide across the last millennium catalogue the same factors associated with suicide as those revealed by modern scientific study in western cultures; serious mental illness, alcohol and substance abuse, co-morbidity, childhood abuse, loss of a love one, fear of humiliation, and economic dislocation and insecurity.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on what you need to know if you love an alcoholic, and help you to assess how serious a drinking problem is. Many health professionals now consider alcoholism to be the largest single medical problem in the US. There may be few outward signs during the early stages of alcoholism. The person may be able to function fairly normally. Some personality changes may be apparent, for example, increasing conflict with family members, and an inability to handle stress.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to show your partner you except their anxiety. Happiness, sadness, and anger are all common emotions. Anxiety is can be part of a dangerous disorder if you experience it excessively or if you cannot control it. Many people suffer from a rapid heartbeat, high blood pressure, fear, and panicky feelings as a result of extreme anxiety. Having an anxiety disorder can affect your mental well-being. It will also impact your daily life so you have to learn how to start coping with anxiety, you have to find relief and manage such anxiety attacks.

Recent studies recommend that good nutrition is essential for our mental health and that various mental health conditions may be affected by dietary factors. A standout amongst the most self-evident, yet under-perceived factors in the advancement of major patterns in mental health is part of nutrition. The body of evidence connecting eating routine and mental health is developing at a rapid pace.

In today’s society, it is no new occurrence to be diagnosed with a mental illness. It is, however, disheartening to note that so many people who have such mental health conditions struggle, with each passing day to find comfort in themselves, and achieve a state of emotional stability and acceptance. It is a frightening thought being diagnosed with a mental disorder - but it shouldn’t cause you to lose the essence of who you really are.

Attention management is the ability to control your distraction and maximize your focus, to be present in your moments, engage your flow, and unleash your genius. At its heart, attention management is about learning how to focus your attention, breaking free from all the things you're constantly distracted by or reacting to. Time management is a process by which one consciously keeps track of the amount of time they spend on each of their activities, in an effort to increase efficiency when it comes to usage of time.

Most people know what anger is, and we've all felt it, whether as a fleeting annoyance or in full rage. Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, and human emotion. But when it gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problems - problems at work, in your personal relationships, and in the overall quality of your life. And it can makes you feel as though you're at the mercy of an unpredictable and powerful emotion.

Hypersexuality behavior is one of the more common aspects of an individual suffering from bipolar disorder, and causes the individual to continuously look to satisfy his or her sexual appetite. The condition can be a cause for tremendous amount of worry among loved ones of the individual that may fear for the person physical as we as sexual health. I've long said that society discusses human sexuality less in the bipolar disorder community.

As defined in psychoanalysis & psychotherapy, gaslighting is the act of trying "to cause another individual to doubt his/her own judgments and perceptions". The name is inspired by a famous Ingrid Bergman movie in which she is slowly driven insane by her husband. A common method of gaslighting is known as the "double-whammy", in which the gaslighter puts down the victim, waits for the victim's response, and then attacks the victim's judgment, perspective or questioning of the original attack.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to determine the difference between mental illness and dementia in the elderly. Dementia is a syndrome characterized by a progressive deterioration of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, and which results in impairment of normal daily functioning. Cognitive function includes memory, intellect, and orientation, thus a person suffering from dementia would have impairment in these various aspects of "cognition".

This book attempts to establish the correlation between the mind and the body, and how each impacts the other; and at the same time provides operational definitions of the words mind and body. The mind represents more than just the thinking faculty of a person, associated usually with thoughts, ideas, and concepts and the ability to process them. Beyond this usual understanding of what constitutes the mind, I propose that the mind transcends one's thoughts.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to learn to forgive. Anger is a human emotion. It is strongly linked to rage, and all of us have experienced it in some form since we were children. We are taught as children that anger and rage are not okay, and so we learn very early on to hide our anger and our rage. Anger is also linked to fear. It is often a fear response that triggers an angry outburst, and is part of the fight or flight response.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to feel confident in discussing herpes and enjoy your love life in the context of sexual relationships. Genital herpes as a diagnosis is not a death sentence, but managing and coping with herpes will be an ongoing part of your life. Herpes is no small matter. One in five adults is estimated to have genital herpes, according to the American Social Health Association, and 80% are not aware they contracted the disease.