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Recommend A Book - SA and MH
I just came across an inspiring free book on kindle and am a member of Good Reads and a meetup book group and thought it might be worth starting a thread.
I thought maybe those of us that are a bit older might have different reading needs. E.g. Reading about what people have been through in their lives over 30 or 40 years. |
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Re: Recommend A Book - SA and MH
So the book I came across is Triumph. A collection of short stories of different womens triumph over breakdowns.
Currently free on kindle http://www.amazon.co.uk/Triumph-Coll...&_bbtype=email I'm going to give it a go. If you do, let me know what you think. |
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Re: Recommend A Book - SA and MH
I liked the Anneli Rufus books that I read - Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto and Unworthy: How To Stop Hating Yourself.
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Re: Recommend A Book - SA and MH
The Mirror world of Melody Black- which deals with bipolar disorsder
and the other book of the same author features a socially anxious protagonist "The universe vs Alex Woods |
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Re: Recommend A Book - SA and MH
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-...M6GW1925ZRYA00
^ My therapist likes this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Overcam...social+anxiety ^ This is one of a number that gets good reviews |
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Re: Recommend A Book - SA and MH
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Accep...cal+acceptance The subtitle and cover seemed a bit wishy washy on first glance, but it's actually really insightful and honest. It's from a Buddhist perspective but doesn't push it on the reader, and I think is helpful if you normally find self help books a bit too prescriptive and goal-oriented. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Always-Cast.../dp/0141191457 Gothic horror about two young women and their sick uncle who live together in a mansion and are the only survivors of an attempt by one of the girls to poison her entire family. There's a real feel of anxiety and agoraphobia to it, especially when they interact with the hostile townsfolk. Hyperbole and a Half https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hyperbole-H...ole+and+a+half Some funny and perceptive stuff about anxiety, depression and motivation (and dogs ). |
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I'm currently reading 'The Other Side of Silence by Linda Gask': https://www.amazon.co.uk/Other-Side-...ide+of+Silence
It's quite an interesting book as the author is a psychiatrist with her own first hand experience of mental illness. |
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Starting to read The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom.
This is not a "how to be happy" book. At least in the opening chapters, it's about how our mind is like an "elephant and a rider", with the elephant being our raw emotions and instincts while the rider is the conscious rational entity that tries (usually unsuccessfully) to control the elephant. We tend towards fear and anxiety because the "elephant" is conditioned (by natural selection) to give highest priority to protection from harm. |
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Has anybody read this one? My friend recommended it.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quiet-Power.../dp/0141029196 |
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Re: Recommend A Book - SA and MH
I'd highly recommend The Conscience of Consciousness by Steven Mullaney, but then, I would... I wrote it :P
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I hope you didn't write them yourself as well. |
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Hahah, the really good review was a stranger who found my book on Instagram of all places |