Defying Mental Illness: Finding Recovery with Community Resources and Family Support    by Paul Komarek
Price: $9.99 USD. 43410 words. Language: English. Published by Church Basement Press on September 26, 2011. Nonfiction » Psychology » Psychological disorders.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Revised and updated for 2013. Defying Mental Illness is a plain-language guide to recovery from mental illness. Its strengths-based approach makes mental health disorders and treatment understandable. Covers schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, autism, suicide prevention, childhood mental illness and more. "Provides what's needed most" --NAMI Advocate

No Comfort Zone: Notes on Living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder    by Marla Handy
Price: $5.99 USD. 28820 words. Language: English. Published on December 21, 2011. Nonfiction » Psychology » Psychological disorders.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
No Comfort Zone challenges the reader to understand a bit of what it’s like to live with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). With insight, clarity and humor, the author describes the fear and unpredictability of her past and links them to her perceptions, reactions and hopes in the present.

Casual Suffering    by Jason Griesse
Price: $2.99 USD. 34070 words. Language: English. Published on May 11, 2013. Nonfiction » Psychology » Psychological disorders.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Casual Suffering is the true account of a person dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. In this autobiographical account, the author examines a series of incomprehensible and horrifying events that not only ruins life as he knows it, but also leaves him severely traumatized.

The Sound of Mind - Adventures in Schizophrenia    by Jason Mintel
Price: Free! 29070 words. Language: English. Published on July 24, 2011. Nonfiction » Psychology » Psychological disorders.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Join me, in the asylum, as together we go on a very odd journey of discovery in my first mental institution experience. Enter a strange world, before I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, as I compete against other game show contestants in a battle to win genetic traits for my family tree. This book offers a better understanding of mental illness and a real view of the realm of thought disorders.

An Uncommon Casebook: The Complete Clinical Work of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.    by Bill O'Hanlon
Price: $1.99 USD. 104520 words. Language: English. Published on October 28, 2011. Nonfiction » Psychology » Psychological disorders.
(5.00 from 1 review)
A summary and description of the clinical cases of the late psychiatrist and hypnotherapist, Milton H. Erickson, M.D., compiled by one of his former students, the psychotherapist Bill O'Hanlon.

Managing Schizophrenia - A Personal Perspective    by Isuru Abeysinghe
Price: Free! 1800 words. Language: English. Published on July 22, 2012. Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Mental health.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Deals with my personal journey with the illness and what I have learnt from a personal perspective to be effective practical and philosophical strategies in dealing with the illness. It can give others suffering from the disease and well as people who have been around them with some insight into the illness.