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Let Me Not Be Mad

My Story of Unraveling Minds

by A. K. Benjamin ...

Inspired by Dr. A. K. Benjamin's years working as a clinical neuropsychologist at a London hospital, this multilayered narrative interweaves Benjamin's own sometimes shocking personal experiences with those of his mentally disordered patients.What do doctors actually think about when you list your problems in the consulting room? Are they really listening to you? Is the connection all in your head ... Read more

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Inspired by Dr. A. K. Benjamin's years working as a clinical neuropsychologist at a London hospital, this multilayered narrative interweaves Benjamin's own sometimes shocking personal experiences with those of his mentally disordered patients.What do doctors actually think about when you list your problems in the consulting room? Are they really listening to you? Is the connection all in your head
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Let Me Not Be Mad

My Story of Unraveling Minds

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Inspired by Dr. A. K. Benjamin's years working as a clinical neuropsychologist at a London hospital, this multilayered narrative interweaves Benjamin's own sometimes shocking personal experiences with those of his mentally disordered patients.What do doctors actually think about when you list your problems in the consulting room? Are they really listening to you? Is the connection all in your head ... Read more

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Inspired by Dr. A. K. Benjamin's years working as a clinical neuropsychologist at a London hospital, this multilayered narrative interweaves Benjamin's own sometimes shocking personal experiences with those of his mentally disordered patients.What do doctors actually think about when you list your problems in the consulting room? Are they really listening to you? Is the connection all in your head
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How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move?

Inside My Autistic Mind

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An astounding new work by the author of The Mind Tree that offers a rare insight into the autistic mind and how it thinks, sees, and reacts to the world. When he was three years old, Tito was diagnosed as severely autistic, but his remarkable mother, Soma, determined that he would overcome the problem” by teaching him to read and write. The result was that between the ages of eight and eleven he ... Read more

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An astounding new work by the author of The Mind Tree that offers a rare insight into the autistic mind and how it thinks, sees, and reacts to the world. When he was three years old, Tito was diagnosed as severely autistic, but his remarkable mother, Soma, determined that he would overcome the problem” by teaching him to read and write. The result was that between the ages of eight and eleven he
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Reasons to Stay Alive

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**From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.“A very special book that has provided a beam of hope to so many.”—DOLLY ALDERTON**WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE?Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. 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

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**From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.“A very special book that has provided a beam of hope to so many.”—DOLLY ALDERTON**WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE?Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him, and learned to live again
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Madness: a Memoir

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Winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 nonfiction prize. Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2013 nonficiton prize.It's not every day you get to admit you're mad.The thing with psychosis is that when I'm sick I believe the delusional stuff to the same degree that you might know the sky is above and the earth below. And if someone were to say to me that the delusional ... Read more

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Winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 nonfiction prize. Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2013 nonficiton prize.It's not every day you get to admit you're mad.The thing with psychosis is that when I'm sick I believe the delusional stuff to the same degree that you might know the sky is above and the earth below. And if someone were to say to me that the delusional
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Memory's Last Breath

Field Notes on My Dementia

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A "courageous and singular book" (Andrew Solomon), Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir -- "an intimate, revealing account of living with dementia" ( Shelf Awareness).Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Gerda Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional ... Read more

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A "courageous and singular book" (Andrew Solomon), Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir -- "an intimate, revealing account of living with dementia" ( Shelf Awareness).Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Gerda Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional
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Infidelity and Other Affairs

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One cannot fail to be entranced by Legge's bone-deep strength and wisdom." Annabel Crabb "Unflinchingly investigating the value of monogamy and the true cost of betrayal." Trent Dalton What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you have to face up to your own addictions? Mental illnesses rain down on those you love? Parents die, careers end, love is found in unexpected ... Read more

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One cannot fail to be entranced by Legge's bone-deep strength and wisdom." Annabel Crabb "Unflinchingly investigating the value of monogamy and the true cost of betrayal." Trent Dalton What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you have to face up to your own addictions? Mental illnesses rain down on those you love? Parents die, careers end, love is found in unexpected
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Underneath the Lemon Tree

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On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife, children, fulfilling job. But then, at his 40th birthday party, his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to depression...How many men do you know who have been through periods when their lives haven't seemed right? How badly askew were things for them? Many men suffer from depression yet it is still a subject that is taboo. Men often don't ... Read more

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On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife, children, fulfilling job. But then, at his 40th birthday party, his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to depression...How many men do you know who have been through periods when their lives haven't seemed right? How badly askew were things for them? Many men suffer from depression yet it is still a subject that is taboo. Men often don't
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Growing Up Disabled in Australia

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A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives – a group whose voices are not heard often enough‘My body and its place in the world seemed normal to me. Why wouldn’t it?’‘I didn’t grow up disabled; I grew up with a problem. A problem that those around me wanted to fix.’‘We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.’‘The diagnosis helped but it ... Read more

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A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives – a group whose voices are not heard often enough‘My body and its place in the world seemed normal to me. Why wouldn’t it?’‘I didn’t grow up disabled; I grew up with a problem. A problem that those around me wanted to fix.’‘We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.’‘The diagnosis helped but it
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Bipolar Journals

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Bipolar Journals is a series of journal entries from a girl with Bipolar Disorder II. The entries explain what it is like to face stigmas of mental illness and derogatory images that the media paint in the minds of her peers. It describes how Bipolar Disorder disrupts her emotions and her functionality.Bipolar Journals is published anonymously by a girl who might just be in your community. ... Read more

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Bipolar Journals is a series of journal entries from a girl with Bipolar Disorder II. The entries explain what it is like to face stigmas of mental illness and derogatory images that the media paint in the minds of her peers. It describes how Bipolar Disorder disrupts her emotions and her functionality.Bipolar Journals is published anonymously by a girl who might just be in your community.
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Memoirs of an Addicted Brain

A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs

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Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin. He sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia and frequented Calcutta's opium dens. Ultimately, though, ... Read more

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Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin. He sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia and frequented Calcutta's opium dens. Ultimately, though,
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The Woman Who Thought too Much

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For readers of A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and Bad Blood by Lorna Sage comes an intensely honest and surprisingly witty literary memoir of one woman's life as a sufferer of Obsessive-compulsive disorderJoanne Limburg is a woman who thinks things she doesn't want to think, and who does things she doesn't want to do. As a small child, she would chew her hair all day and lie awake at ... Read more

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For readers of A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and Bad Blood by Lorna Sage comes an intensely honest and surprisingly witty literary memoir of one woman's life as a sufferer of Obsessive-compulsive disorderJoanne Limburg is a woman who thinks things she doesn't want to think, and who does things she doesn't want to do. As a small child, she would chew her hair all day and lie awake at
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