Girl in Need of a Tourniquet

Author: Merri Lisa Johnson
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458783677
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
An honest and compelling memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquetis Merri Lisa Johnsons account of her borderline personality disorder and how it has affected her life and relationships. Johnson describes the feeling of ''bleeding out'' - unable to tell where she stopped and where her partner began. A self-confessed ''psycho girlfriend,'' she was influenced by many emotional factors from her past. She recalls her path through a dysfunctional, destructive relationship, while recounting the experiences that brought her to her breaking point. In recognizing her struggle with borderline personality disorder, Johnson is ultimately able to seek help, embarking on a soul-searching healing process. It's a path that is painful, difficult, and at times heart-wrenching, but ultimately makes her more able to love and coexist in healthy relationships.

Girl in Need of a Tourniquet

Author: Merri Lisa Johnson
Publisher: Seal Press
ISBN: 1580053505
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
An honest and compelling memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet is Merri Lisa Johnson’s account of her borderline personality disorder and how it has affected her life and relationships. Johnson describes the feeling of "bleeding out", unable to tell where she stopped and where her partner began. A self-confessed "psycho girlfriend," she was influenced by many emotional factors from her past. She recalls her path through a dysfunctional, destructive relationship, while recounting the experiences that brought her to her breaking point. In recognizing her struggle with borderline personality disorder, Johnson is ultimately able to seek help, embarking on a soul-searching healing process. It's a path that is painful, difficult, and at times heart-wrenching, but ultimately makes her more able to love and coexist in healthy relationships.

Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl

Author: Stacy Pershall
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340791
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
After her 2001 suicide attempt, broadcast live on a Webcam, Pershall realized the need to heal her mind and body. She found a revolutionary cure, met a tattoo artist, and discovered the healing power of body modification.

Less than Crazy (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

Author: Karla Dougherty
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458719588
Category : Bipolar disorder
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
An empathetic guide to recognizing and overcoming the chronic mood disorder Bipolar II, a rapidly increasing DSM diagnosis affecting over 9 million Americans.

Inconsolable

Author: Marrit Ingman
Publisher: Seal Press
ISBN: 9781580051408
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
A humorously dark account of postpartum depression describes the author's roller-coaster journey of chronic illness, antidepressants, and early motherhood, an experience during which she also came to terms with unhelpful advice and failed expectations. Original.

Talking to a Loved One with Borderline Personality Disorder

Author: Jerold J. Kreisman
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 168403048X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
In this compassionate guide, Jerold Kreisman—author of I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me—offers a powerful set of tools to help you express yourself, set boundaries, and cultivate healthy communication with a loved one who is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). If you have a loved one with BPD, you need real, proven-effective strategies to help you navigate the intense emotions and conflict that can arise in daily interactions and conversations. People with BPD often feel anger, pain, and hurt from a history of invalidation and disappointment, and their difficulty in regulating emotions can lead to moments of lashing out that can confuse and upset those around them. Written by a psychiatrist with more than 40 years of experience in treating BPD, Talking to a Loved One with Borderline Personality Disorder offers a breakthrough, compassionate approach to communicating with a loved one who has BPD. The SET (support, empathy, truth) method outlined in this book is a powerful and simple tool that will allow you to honestly address your loved one’s demands, assertions, and feelings while still maintaining appropriate boundaries. Each step builds on the last, helping you build up a consistent and reliable communication process. In this book, you’ll find a review of BPD and the common communication problems inherent in the disorder. You’ll learn how SET can address these issues. And finally, you’ll find detailed examples of specific scenarios that can arise when talking to a loved one with BPD. Remember—validation isn’t the same as agreement. You can help your loved one feel validated while still maintaining your own boundaries. This essential guide will show you how.

Shades of Blue

Author: Amy Ferris
Publisher: Seal Press
ISBN: 1580055958
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
The silent epidemic of depression affects millions of people and takes dozens of lives everyday, while our culture grapples with a stigma against open discussion of mental health issues. Editor Amy Ferris has collected these stories to illuminate the truth behind that stigma and offer compassion, solidarity, and hope for all those who have struggled with depression. Contributors to Shades of Blue include: Barbara Abercrombie Sherry Amatenstein Regina Anavy Chloe Caldwell Jimmy Camp Debra LoGuercio DeAngelo Marika Rosenthal Delan Hollye Dexter Beverly Donofrio Beth Bornstein Dunnington Matt Ebert Betsy Graziani Fasbinder Zoe FitzGerald Carter Pam L. Houston David Lacy Patti Linsky Mark S. King Caroline Leavitt Karen Lynch Lira Maywood C.O. Moed Mark Morgan Linda Joy Myers Christine Kehl O Hagan Jennifer Pastiloff Ruth Pennebaker Angela M. Giles Patel Alexa Rosalsky Elizabeth Rosner Kathryn Rountree Kitty Sheehan Jenna Stone judywhite Samantha White Shades of Blue brings the conversation around depression and sadness into the open with real, first-hand accounts of depression and mental health issues, offering empathy to all those who have been affected by these issues. It s time to scream out loud against this silent annihilator: We are not alone. "

Thin Is the New Happy

Author: Valerie Frankel
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312373924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
Frankel, like most women, has endured years of dieting, starvation, and total preoccupation with her weight. Not wanting to pass this legacy onto her own daughters, she set out to cleanse herself of these painful and damaging cycles, which she chronicles in this hilarious, unflinching memoir.

Jane Sexes It Up

Author: Merri Lisa Johnson
Publisher: Seal Press
ISBN: 9781568581804
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
Exploring a wide range of sexual subjects from pornography to prostitution, 20 young, progressive feminists reflect on the limitations they think are imposed by establishment feminism on their bodies and their behavior.

My Beloved Tourniquet

Author: Solange nicole
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0985907517
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151

Book Description
A typical story of boy meets girl. Boy likes girl. Boy hides dangerous past that girl ends up twisted in. Helen had no idea what she was getting into when she let Carmen into her life. The strange Frenchman who charms his way into Helen's arms leaves her world turned upside down. Helen had never known a love like this, it was almost too perfect.