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 Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:01 pm
jopwie Keakealani Right now I'm reading "I Hate You, Don't Leave Me", which is a book about Borderline Personality Disorder (which I vaguely suspect I posess)....it's extremely interesting, though, because Borderline covers a very wide range of personalities which seem outwardly to share nothing, but in reality share everything. OH MY GOD!!!! I just ordered that book from Chapters!!! Darialan, although not specifically written for anxiety, I found "Feeling Good, The New Mood Therapy" by David D. Burns to be helpful for anxiety. It was recommended to my Mum by one of my cognative therapists, and can help with your thinking. He explains the types of distorted thinking, like "All or Nothing", "Overgeneralization", "Mental Filter", "Disqualifiying the Positive", "Jumping to Conclusions", "Magnification and Minimilization" (which I think would be most helpful to you), and a bunch of other ones.
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:52 pm
I have recently read a bunch of books covering a wide range of disorders. Let's see if I can remember them...
An Anthropologist On Mars, Oliver Sacks. A gripping account of a neurologist looking at perplexing and paradoxial cases. Has a wide range, from Schizophrenia to Tourette's to Autism.
Nobody Nowhere, Donna Williams. An autobiography about a woman growing up in an autistic world with less than caring parents
Thinking in Pictures, Temple Grandin. Another autobiography, but with an animal scientist reacalling her life of entirely visual thinking, and how it affected her life.
That's all I can think of right now... basically, I suggest reading anything from Oliver Sacks, or Donna Wiliams.
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:51 am
An Unquiet Mind - Kay Ray Jamison. Life of a bipolar with refusal to take medication, which racks havoc on her life, job, friends, social life, etc.
Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel. Struggle with depression, cutting, drug usage, and hospital stays.
Lucky - Alice Sebold. Conviction of Alice's rapist.
I've got a couple more books sitting on my shelf that I'm dying to read. =D
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:53 am
jopwie Keakealani Right now I'm reading "I Hate You, Don't Leave Me", which is a book about Borderline Personality Disorder (which I vaguely suspect I posess)....it's extremely interesting, though, because Borderline covers a very wide range of personalities which seem outwardly to share nothing, but in reality share everything. OH MY GOD!!!! I just ordered that book from Chapters!!! Darialan, although not specifically written for anxiety, I found "Feeling Good, The New Mood Therapy" by David D. Burns to be helpful for anxiety. It was recommended to my Mum by one of my cognative therapists, and can help with your thinking. He explains the types of distorted thinking, like "All or Nothing", "Overgeneralization", "Mental Filter", "Disqualifiying the Positive", "Jumping to Conclusions", "Magnification and Minimilization" (which I think would be most helpful to you), and a bunch of other ones.
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:33 am
Amber Ocean has some great suggestions.
I'd add:
The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine, P.h.D.
This book basically talks about the rise in the rates of depression in upper middle class kids, and why this is happening.
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison.
There's this other book, I can't remember the title or the author, but it's on the six different types of AD/HD. Very interesting, and quite useful.
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:08 pm
Llelwyn Amber Ocean has some great suggestions. I'd add: The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine, P.h.D. This book basically talks about the rise in the rates of depression in upper middle class kids, and why this is happening. Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison. There's this other book, I can't remember the title or the author, but it's on the six different types of AD/HD. Very interesting, and quite useful.
I'll have to take a look at the other book you have. Sounds interesting!
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 2:51 pm
Does anyone have any good recommendations on books that deal with Depression, namely of the self-help variety?
I thought about picking up The Depression Workbook by Mary Ellen Copeland. But she isn't even a doctor, and she bases all of her work on a research survay she did on a 100 or so people. I flipped through it, and her writing is very patronizing and condescending. Since then I've avoided her books like the plague.
A good book of fiction about Autism that I enjoyed and would recommend is the curious incident of the dog at nighttime by Mark Haddon.
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:04 pm
Cutting and Anatomy of Anorexia, both by Steven Levenkron are very good. They both explain these disorders and tell personal stories from his patients. it's good.
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:42 pm
jopwie I found "Feeling Good, The New Mood Therapy" by David D. Burns to be helpful for anxiety. It was recommended to my Mum by one of my cognative therapists, and can help with your thinking. I had a therapist recommend that....maybe I should read it.... sad
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:20 pm
La Veuve Zin jopwie I found "Feeling Good, The New Mood Therapy" by David D. Burns to be helpful for anxiety. It was recommended to my Mum by one of my cognative therapists, and can help with your thinking. I had a therapist recommend that....maybe I should read it.... sad
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:56 pm
I just ordered "How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends." I hope that's a good book for my social problems. Has anyone else read this or recommend a book like it?
BTW I finally finished the "Feeling Good" book and it gave some good pointers that I'm going to try to incorporate into my life. It also repeatedly said that depressed individuals and people with anxiety have irrational thoughts and this is even true when their problems are real.
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