Addictions & Anxieties

Designed as a self-help manual for those readers who have experienced mood swings, this volume also provides background information on depression and mania. Principally, it explains how cognitive behavioural therapy can be used to treat emotional disorders by changing negative patterns of thought. The author presents tested practical techniques aimed to help people identify and manage their mood swings more effectively.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a diverse illnes of uncertain origin and indeterminate duration. Often dismissed as "yuppie flu", it is surrounded by much ignorance and prejudice. This guide, by a doctor who is also a sufferer, offers first-hand experience and advice.

When Ali Valenzuela was 14, she started to exercise obsessively and limit her food intake - all following an incident which completely undermined her self-confidence. By the time she was 18 - and sitting A-level exams - her weight had fallen below 40kg (less than 6 stone) and was on the brink of death. At that point she was admitted to hospital, but had to be sent to a private hospital in Bristol as there were no appropriate facilities nearer home (Swansea). She spent 3 months there -- although her local health authority would guar... read more

Approximately 15 people per 1000 develop a "panic disorder" at some point in their life. This text describes the causes, nature, symptoms and treatment of this disorder and practical self-help advice is provided. Personal accounts also feature throughout the book.

The Broken Brain provides a complete and remarkably readable guide to the new scientific understanding of schizophrenia, severe depression, and other major mental disorders and to the new medications that have already returned hundreds of thousands to more normal lives. Dr. Andreasen's book is also a social manifesto that seeks to remove the shame, guilt, and punishment that are still attached to the mentally ill and, instead, to regard them "as human beings who deserve as much sensitivity and love as people who suffer from cancer,... read more