First person accounts of mental illness and recovery.

First person accounts of mental illness and recovery.

In First Person Accounts of Mental Illness, case studies of individuals experiencing schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, substance use disorders, and other mental ailments will be provided for students studying the classification and treatment of psychopathology....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: LeCroy, Craig Winston
Other Authors: Holschuh, Jane
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley, 2012.
Subjects:
Mentally ill > Personal narratives.
Mental illness > Case studies.
Mental illness.
mental disorders.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
Mental illness
Mentally ill
Case studies
Personal narratives
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
  • Schizophrenia
  • The Best Medicine / Susan A. Salsman
  • Recovery as Discovery / Paolo Scotti
  • Understanding Health as a Continuum / Leslie Greenblat
  • Psychiatry and Oppression: A Personal Account of Compulsory Admission and Medical Treatment / Benjamin Gray
  • Powerful Choices: Peer Support and Individualized Medication Self-Determination / Corinna West
  • Schizoaffective Disorders
  • Snapshots: The First Symptoms of Psychosis / Kristen B. Fowler
  • Why Having a Mental Illness Is Not Like Having Diabetes / Anonymous
  • 2. Mood Disorders
  • Depressive Disorders
  • Depression: Disease, Loneliness, Social Isolation, Suicide, Negative Thoughts / Bec Morrison
  • My Confession: My Life Had Come to a Stop / Leo Tolstoi
  • Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
  • I Wish I Had Gotten Help Sooner: My Struggle With Postpartum Depression / Marcie Ramirez
  • My Journey Through Postpartum Depression / Jessica Rodrigo-Dunican
  • Bipolar Disorders
  • Living with the Dragon: The Long Road to Self-Management of Bipolar II / Peter Amsel
  • On Madness: A Personal Account of Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder / Anonymous
  • Random Scribblings on Bipolar Disorder / Michael Napiorkowski
  • Being Bipolar: Living on Both Sides of the Coin / Susan Michele Vale
  • 3. Anxiety Disorders
  • Panic Disorder
  • You Have Anxiety? / Kelly Orbison
  • Susan's Story / Susan Ludeman
  • Phobias
  • On the Outside Looking In / Daniela Grazia
  • Mysophobia / Catherine Taylor
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Flux / Frank R. DeFulgentis
  • Rituals, Routines, and Recovery: Living With OCD / Linda Wasmer Andrews
  • "It'll Be Okay." How I Kept Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) From Ruining My Life / Shannon Shy
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Emotional Triangle / Blazie Holling
  • Panic, Anxiety, PTSD, and My Experiences of Healing Through Multiple Avenues of Psychotherapy / Catherine McCall
  • The Demons of War Are Persistent: A Personal Story of Prolonged PTSD / Art W. Schade
  • 4. Personality Disorders
  • My Path to Recovery / Melanie Green
  • A "Classic" Case of Borderline Personality Disorder / Lynn Williams
  • Loud in the House of Myself / Stacy Pershall
  • 5. Substance-Related Disorders
  • Goodbye, Johnnie Walker / Neil Davidson
  • Untitled / Aaron J. French
  • A Nurse's Journey Through Loss, Addiction, and Recovery / Michelle Walter
  • 6. Eating Disorders
  • Dying by Inches / Emily Troscianko
  • Big Little / Priscilla Becker
  • Binging and Purging to Stay Alive / Anonymous
  • Life With an Eating Disorder / Laura Bette
  • 7. Impulse Control Disorders
  • The Numbers of My Obsession / Mia Zamora
  • Memoirs of a Compulsive Firesetter / Sarah Wheaton
  • Dan's Story / Anonymous
  • 8. Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders
  • Before It's Too Late / Jane McAllister
  • Poor Memory: A Case Report / Malcolm L. Meltzer
  • Parkinson's: A Patient's View / Sidney Dorros
  • 9. Somatoform Disorders
  • A Psychosomatic Study of Myself / F. Wertham
  • Bigorexia: Bodybuilding and Muscle Dysmorphia / Anonymous
  • Hypochondria / Heather Menzies Jones
  • 10. Dissociative Disorders
  • Coping Strategies / Ruth Dee
  • Family Talk / Barbara Hope
  • Fractured Mind, One Heart? / Robert B. Oxnam
  • 11. Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
  • Sexual Pain Disorders
  • Vaginismus: The Blessing of Botox / Rachel
  • Paraphilias
  • The Armed Robbery Orgasm: A Lovemap Autobiography of Masochism / John Money
  • Gender Identity Disorders
  • A Rose in Bloom / April Rose Schneider
  • Time for a Good Transgender Story / Kam Wai Kui
  • 12. Sleep Disorders
  • An Insomniac's Slant on Sleep / Gayle Greene
  • My Story of Narcolepsy / Patricia Higgins
  • 13. Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence
  • Pervasive Developmental Disorders
  • Communication Impairment / John Elder Robison
  • Alien: A Story of Asperger's Syndrome / Stephanie Mayberry
  • The Experience of Infantile Autism / W. Tony
  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • The Only Me That We Have Ever Known / Katy Rollins
  • Tic Disorders
  • A Tourette Story / Rick Fowler
  • Searching for Answers / Crystal Thomas.

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