The Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Diary: A Self-Help Diary with CBT Activities to Challenge Your OCD is written by Charlotte Dennis, who shares the experiences she has been through working on her own OCD using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). It's designed as a workbook to be written in, so the paper version would definitely be a … Continue reading Book Review: The Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Diary
All She Wrote: Catharsis & Absolution, is a book of poetry by Paula Light. It focuses on the myriad emotions that go along with relationship heartbreak. There are poems about narcissism, gaslighting, and other highly charged circumstances. There's also a poem about a non-starter online relationship and Google stalking. Here are some of my favourite … Continue reading Book Review: All She Wrote
Ashley over at Mental Health @ Home published another phenomenal book last month, Making Sense of Psychiatric Diagnosis. This book not only goes over the different diagnosis but also includes small essays on people who have personal experience with them. I was lucky enough to have Ashley accept my piece on ADD. I love this […] … Continue reading Making Sense of Psychiatric Diagnosis — This Bipolar Brat
It's Ok to Not Be Ok by Kim Lamontagne is a collection of stories written by 11 contributing authors about their personal experience with mental health struggles. I heard about this book from Cat Davis, who blogs at High Risk Cat. She contributed the Story "Looked Up", which is the first story in the book. In … Continue reading Book Review: It’s Ok to Not Be Ok
Polishing the Facets of Life with Bipolar is a memoir by E.M. Sebree about learning to live with bipolar disorder. Like many people bipolar, she was first diagnosed with depression, which was triggered by sexual abuse. While she was still in high school she became manic, and she shares the psychotic symptoms she experienced and her … Continue reading Book Review: Polishing the Facets of Life with Bipolar
A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, 2nd ed., is written by Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein. MBSR is an approach that was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, whose book Wherever You Go There You Are I've previously reviewed on MH@H. The authors offer this description of mindfulness: "Mindfulness is about being fully aware of whatever is happening … Continue reading Book Review: A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook
Bring Me To Light: Embracing my Bipolar and Social Anxiety by Eleanor Segall describes her journey with mental illness, from pre-diagnosis through her work on recovery. It's written in clear, simple language, making it easy to understand for readers with no background knowledge of mental illness. She begins by talking about her Jewish heritage and … Continue reading Book Review: Bring Me To Light
The first review is in for Making Sense of Psychiatric Diagnosis! Johnzelle Anderson LPC of Panoramic Counseling (who is also a contributor) shares his thoughts on the book here: https://panoramiccounseling.com/making-sense-of-psychiatric-diagnosis/ Thanks so much Johnzelle, both for contributing to the book and for the awesome review! Want to pick up a copy? It's available on: Amazon … Continue reading The first review of Making Sense of Psychiatric Diagnosis
She (used to refer to a woman, or girl) is a book of poetry by Natasha MacFarlane. I discovered Natasha quite recently when she was featured on Housewife Hustle's Follow Friday. The book is a story of She and her struggle with mental illness demons, told in poetic form. It covers a number of common themes … Continue reading Book Review: She
Royally Incomplete is the first book from TheInBetweenQueen, and it focuses on her eating disorder recovery journey. Her pen name comes from her perspective that "Health is not a destination, and at this juncture, I am still in a vastly expansive in-between." Each chapter focuses on a different issue or part of her story, and … Continue reading Book Review: Royally Incomplete
Emotions in Motion: A Book of Poetry is Mathew Sackrider's first book. Like the title suggests, they are all very emotion-rich. The poems are all on the longer side and multi-stanza, and various forms are used (which I, being non-poetic, don't know the names of). The book addresses a number of challenging topics. The Steering Wheel … Continue reading Book Review: Emotions in Motion
This is a bonus second book review for this week. I always like the chance to read books by fellow bloggers, so I'm stepping out of my usual mental health book box. Shattered by Michelle Tikalsky is a young adult novel that tells the story of a budding romance between Mitch and Callie. Mitch is a … Continue reading Book Review: Shattered
The A to Z of Eating Disorders by Emma Woolf is an A to Z encyclopedia of terms and concepts related to eating disorders. Some terms, like body mass index, are covered in a couple of paragraphs, while others have lengthier explanations. The book includes some terms not directly to do with eating disorders, such as … Continue reading Book Review: The A to Z of Eating disorders
A bonus second book review for today! Behold Her Majestic Fog is written by my dear blogging friend Meg Kimball. I knew going in that this was a young adult novel in the "campy horror" genre, but I wasn't sure what that actually meant. Well, now I know. The novel takes place during a church lock-in, … Continue reading Book review: Behold Her Majestic Fog