Tina Goss writes in candid detail about growing up with a father crippled by manic-depression and her mother's ingenious attempts to disguise it. Both heartbreaking and funny, this memoir is testimony to a family's indestructible love. The Dilemma is a captiving book that deals with the daily predicament of having a mentally ill parent and a heart-wrenching decision that no daughter should ever have to make. Undoing Depression by Psychotherapist, Richard O'Connor. A Workbook of Action Plans for Recurring Health and Emotional Problems by Mary Ellen Copeland.
Every recovery holds the potential for relapse.
And for many who have fought their way back to health from a physical disorder or emotional trauma, the return of old symptoms can be even more devastating than the original crisis. In this book, Mary Ellen Copeland presents a structured system that those in recovery can use to monitor their own symptoms and respond to them in a way that reduces or eliminates the possibility of relapse. Readers will learn to identify events or situations that can cause their symptoms to recur, prepare an action plan to take if things start to break down, and lay out specifics about support, medications, and treatment facilities that can help. Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death not uncommonly is violent and grisly.