Some children inherit "the family nose." Autumn Stringam and her brother Joseph inherited the family bipolar disorder, a severe mental illness that led to their mother's and grandfather's suicides. Autumn, at 22, was psychotic and in in a psychiatric hospital on suicide watch; Joseph, at 15, was prone to violent episodes so terrifying the family feared for their lives. But after they began taking a nutritional supplement developed by their father and based, incredibly, on a formula given to aggressive hogs--Autumn's and Joseph's symptoms disappeared. Today they both lead normal, productive lives.
A Promise of Hope is the personal story of Autumn Stringam's flight from madness to wellness, all due to the vitamin and mineral supplement that works on the premise that some forms of mental illness are caused by nutritional deficiencies. An honest book that exposes the hidden torment of bipolar disorder, it is the story of a daughter seeking to forgive her mother. A Promise of Hope is also an astonishing scientific account that moves from a kitchen table in Alberta to the treatment offices of a distinguished Harvard pshyciatrist and into the labs of a skeptical medial establishment. It climaxes in a bitter--but eventually triumphant--battles with Health Canada, in which the tiny supplement company is exonerated and praised for saving the lives of thousands of Canadians previously thought lost to mental illness. More than anything, A Promise of Hope is a powerful story and a call for a new understanding of the causes of mental illness and its treatments.
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<li>20% of Canadians will experience mental illness in their lifetimes</li> <li>Over 300,000 Canadians are affected by bipolar disorder (or manic depression)</li> <li>15% of people with biploar disorder commit suicide</li> <li>EMPower Plus, the supplement that worked for Autumn, is being used and studied around the world, reflecting the growing awareness of the role of micronutrients in normal brain function.</li>
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A Promise of Hope: The Astonishing True Story of a Woman Afflicted with Bipolar Disorder and the Miraculous Treatment That Cured Her

Biographies & Memoirs

Stringam, Autumn

Regional U.S.

Collins

Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of use

Multiple Man : The Enigma of Possession and Multiple Personality

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Crabtree, Adam

Mental Health

HarperCollins Publishers Canad

Multiple Man : Explorations in Possession and Multiple Personality

Adam Crabtree

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

In this era of downsizing, restructuring, instant technology shifts and rapid and extreme change, rage in the workplace is on the rise.  Fortunately, there are ways to recognize and ameliorate the effects of work rage.  Gerry Smith, director of the Trauma Response Team of Warren Shappel, shows how work rage can adversely affect a company and provides practical strategies for prevention and crisis response.  Smith also looks at the issues concerning rage in schools and in air-travel.

Work Rage: Identify the Problems, Implement the Solutions

Business & Money

Smith, Gerry

Management & Leadership

Harpercollins Canada

Who hasn't heard a young girl wail, "I'm not going to school today. I feel so fat!" But as therapist and teacher Sandy Friedman explains, feeling fat is simply a code for expressing stressful or negative feelings. Feeling fat often really means a girl is feeling inadequate or ugly or bad. 
 In When Girls Feel Fat, Sandy Friedman helps parents, teachers and girls themselves to understand and cope with the difficult process of adolescence. This book gives parents empathetic, clear and proven strategies to deal with conflict, to recognize that "worries about weight" can lead to more serious eating disorders, to maintain a connection in the face of "tuning out" and to cope with the grungies - Friedman's term for the voice of self-deprecating negative feelings. 
 In the face of today's "feeling fat" epidemic among girls as young as seven, When Girls Feel Fat is a timely and practical book that will help all parents guide their daughters into healthy, confident womanhood.

When Girls Feel Fat: Helping Girls Through Adolescence

Friedman, Sandra Susan

Why do we bite people we feel affection towards? Why do dogs wag their tails? Or cats purr? Why do we get embarrassed, and why does embarrassment make us blush? These, and many other questions about the emotional life of man and animals are answered in this remarkable book. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was an immediate best-seller when it was first published in 1872 and still provides the point of departure for research into emotion and facial expression. In his study of infants and children (including a delightfully objective study of his own baby's smiles and pouts), of the insane, of painting and sculpture, of cats and dogs and monkeys, and of the ways that people in different cultures express their feelings, Darwin's insights have not been improved upon by modern science. This definitive edition contains a substantial new Introduction and Afterword by Paul Ekman. Ekman also provides commentaries that use the latest scientific knowledge to elaborate, support and occasionally challenge Darwin's insights.

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

DARWIN,CHARLES

Harperperennial

Why do words fail men when they need them most? Why is the subject of what men want emotionally shrouded in silence? This is a book that attempts, in the style of Blake Morrison and Richard Rayner, to put men's experience of Love into words.

I Am No Longer Myself Without You: An Anatomy of Love

Rutherford, Jonathan

HarperCollins, UK

‘A masterpiece of popularization’ Times Literary Supplement
‘A fascinating account, based on objective scientific research, of the ways in which mental states affect the individual’s liability to disease… Martin is a highly civilised scientist, who seasons his text with witty parentheses. He also provides many examples from literature, ranging widely from Shakespeare, Goethe and Hardy to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Kafka… Interesting, informative and a pleasure to read.’ ANTHONY STORR, Sunday Times
‘Excellent’ JON TURNEY, Financial Times
‘This most accessible account of a difficult subject blows away some prejudices and pleasingly justifies others… Martin is a biologist whose style is considerate of the layman…and it is a tribute to his own benignly infectious enthusiasm for his subject that his closing thoughts are encouraging… Remarkable.’ ALAN JUDD, Daily Telegraph
‘Compelling… Balanced and impressively up to date… The tone of voice, the open-minded but critical intelligence should uplift the quality of the debate… Martin’s lucid account of possible mechanisms of the connections between mental states and personality traits and illnesses is a notable triumph of his book… Excellent.’ RAYMOND TALLIS, Times Literary Supplement

The Sickening Mind: Brain, Behaviour, Immunity and Disease

MARTIN, PAUL

Flamingo

Managing Anger offers a simple mind/body approach to alleviating anger.

Managing Anger

Lindenfield, Gael

Thorsons Pub.

St John’s Wort: Natural relief from depression

Rosenthal, Dr. Norman

Thorsons

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