Janet Coburn draws on the posts from her award-winning blog, Bipolar Me, to illuminate the life of persons who live with bipolar disorder. As a woman living with bipolar 2 disorder, the author has direct experience of the subjects she covers and opens her life to readers. With chapters covering symptoms, treatments, the ups and downs of everyday life, and more, the author provides both valuable information and personal stories of struggles with mental illness. She wants people to know that help, healing, and a rich, rewarding life are possible.This book is recommended for anyone who is interested in or has bipolar disorder, and for people who are family, friends, or loved ones of someone who lives with the condition.

Bipolar Me

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Coburn, Janet

Mental Health

Eliezer Tristan Publishing

In the time of fad diets, calorie-free sweetener, and chaos, an eating disorder was born. Some days, it looked like the perfect romantic partner, supportive, seductive, mysterious. Somedays, it looked like the key to being a perfect person. Both were wrong; a cover-up for a monster that lures victims into a cold, lonely cave. Untranslatable is the author's account of recovering from her eating disorder, PTSD, and traumatic brain injury. It is not a phoenix rising from the ashes story. For Katherine Elizabeth Walsh, recovery feels more like being sent out into stormy water, in half a boat, that someone lit on fire, and the only oars are her limbs. Recovery isn't always graceful. It is often hard work and stumbling, wanting to give up. Not wanting to try one more time when the thing you are leaving felt so much safer, less ugly. Sometimes being in the mud is where you need to be. Sometimes one more try is exactly the thing that saves you.

Untranslatable

Katherine, Walsh Elizabeth

Psychology & Counseling

Struggling with Serendipity tells the true story of a mom's crisis, a daughter's paralysis, and extraordinary travels that carried them from a small town in Ohio to Seattle, Harvard, Capitol Hill, and around the world.
After an accident, a heartsick mom battles depression and guilt, while a shy but determined teenager fights the harsh physical challenges of quadriplegia. Fourteen-year-old Beth believes everything will be okay. Cindy is certain that nothing will ever be okay again. 
Struggling with Serendipity explores the power of hope while navigating unknown waters of disability. Cindy confronts her altered identity and mental health. Beth sets impossible goals as she tries to swim with legs that don't work and hands that can't cup the water.
Together they find a new normal, with serendipity in the most unlikely of moments. Waves of adventure follow, including Beth’s invitation to join the Harvard Women's Swimming and Diving team—the first with a visible disability. 
Struggling with Serendipity takes us on an incredible journey to the end of an era that leaves Cindy and Beth transformed. Everything really is okay. And if you never give up? Hope wins.

Struggling With Serendipity

Biographies & Memoirs

Cindy Kolbe

Community & Culture

Invisible Veils is a collection of poems which gives insight into what it's like to live with anxiety, depression and survive the trauma of being sexually assaulted. At times it means being in constant crisis, struggling to stay alive and the inability to cope with any other issues in life. These poems share the thoughts and feelings of those in the process of healing.

Invisible Veils

Literature & Fiction

Denita Stevens

Poetry

A perfect melding of memoir, self-help, and workbook, Brave Girl Healing gives readers an intimate look into one woman's journey of reclaiming her life from an eating disorder, depression, anxiety, and PTSD, while also sharing practical exercises and suggestions for how others can find their own paths to healing.

Brave Girl Healing

Colleen M. Werner

The Laid-Back Schizophrenic is a collection of essays about living with schizophrenia and trying to be cool about it. Lamont Derrickson brings truth, humor, rawness, and his real-life experience to a book that everyone with schizophrenia simply must read. Derrickson is a gamer, writer, cat lover, and caretaker for his sister, whom he loves dearly. Whether you are newly diagnosed or have been living with a psychotic illness for years, this book is for you.
Bio: 
Lamont Derrickson is quiet by nature, but loud in his writing. It's always the quiet ones who have the most to say. He's passionate about helping others and often puts them before himself. He's been featured on Stigma Fighters and in The Stigma Fighters Anthology.

The Laid-Back Schizophrenic

Lamont Derrickson

After telling her parents about what's inside her mind, Eilidh's first year of battling the toughest challenge she has faced begins: recovering from mental health illnesses. All the ups and downs and relapsing makes the time taken seem to be wasted for a dream: recovery. Until she figures out what recovery stands for.Once Around The Sun travels through questions faced by recovery and gives advice when going through your own recovery by drawings and writing. This is based on her Instagram account.Eilidh Gray is a high-school student who also spreads awareness of mental health illnesses through her Instagram account @mymentalhealth.artPosting about her experiences and struggles with depression, anxiety, an eating disorder, trauma and self-harm she tries to let people understand they aren't alone and to start a conversation on what they are feeling. In her recovery, she has learned that you have to choose recovery and not to be ashamed of what you feel which she aims to show people in her drawings.

Once Around the Sun

Self-Help

Gray, Eilidh

Eating Disorders & Body Image

Drops of Jules is multifaceted, delving into Julia's personal struggle with anorexia, exploring the larger picture of mental health, and also factoring in the role of religion and spirituality in people's lives. It is unfiltered, revealing secrets of sexual trauma, abuse, and extreme disordered behaviors. While a story centered around darker themes, hope prevails. When presented with the idea of turning her story into a book, Julia's sole intention was to write the book she needed when she was actively struggling with anorexia. Geared toward those fighting eating disorders as well as those supporting loved ones in recovery, Drops of Jules aims to break through boundaries of shame and stigma, promoting a more empathetic approach toward recovery.

Drops of Jules

Grigorian, Julia

Deceit, abandonment, abuse, infidelity - when someone you love does the unthinkable, it's hard to see past the anguish and find the capacity to forgive, much less imagine a restored relationship. After being molested as a child and later facing infidelity in her marriage, Jelise Ballon struggled for years to find a way to forgive and trust again. This not only prevented healing, it left her feeling imprisoned in a world of pain and hurt. But God had a different plan for her -- a plan for forgiveness and restoration. For anyone wounded by relational trauma, Forgiven and Restored offers hope that healing and forgiveness are possible, and even the most broken relationships can be made new.

Forgiven And Restored

Ballon, Jelise

Religion & Spirituality

It has taken me thirty years to become the son that my mother deserved and just as long to develop the writing skills to tell her story. How do you honor a woman who never sought recognition and was always true to her nature? She was both confident and humble, kind to a fault and fueled by compassion, selflessness personified. She was also stubborn and determined to do whatever someone said she couldn't. She was a feminist, a humanist, and a nature-loving, spiritual person who never felt the need to tell anyone else what to believe or how to worship. She could make an incredible meal out of leftovers. She could dress for any occasion and even sewed her designs. She was that rare person who did a million things but never seemed to run out of time. She was born in an era of struggle and modest expectations. She succeeded well beyond her dreams. She married a man who was larger than life and never let her light diminish while enabling him to be the best man he could be. She taught by her example and was sincerely loved by the many she encouraged to appreciate the beauty in this brief and beautiful life. I am proud to tell her story and overjoyed to share the fortunes I have derived, by being born of such Grace.

In The Name of Grace

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