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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems
Now a major Channel 4 series Rose Cartwright has OCD, but not as
you know it. Pure is the true story of her ten-year struggle with
'Pure O', a little-known form of the condition, which causes her to
experience intrusive sexual thoughts of shocking intensity. It is a
brave and frequently hilarious account of a woman who refused to
give up, despite being undermined at every turn by her obsessions
and enduring years of misdiagnosis and failed therapies.
Eventually, the love of family and friends, and Rose's own courage
and sense of humour prevailed, inspiring this deeply felt and
beautifully written memoir. At its core is a lesson for all of us:
when it comes to being happy with who we are, there are no neat
conclusions.
This book is designed to help people make an informed and balanced
decision on how to best care for their loved ones when they are
ageing or dealing with dementia. It examines the benefits and
drawbacks of the various care options available and compares them
according to the needs of each individual. It also provides
detailed practical advice on how to make a home a suitable and safe
place to live. Through check-lists and questionnaires, this book
answers some of the important questions that arise when assessing a
person's need for care and ease some of the guilt that might be
associated with making those decisions.
Shéri Brynard has reached many remarkable milestones, although she was born
with Down Syndrome. She talks about how love and acceptance from her family
and friends formed her. She tells of her adventures, her pain and the harsh
realities she has to face as an adult with Down Syndrome. Her mother tells the
tale of living in Shéri’s shadow, speaking without holding back about her crisis of
faith when she heard that her daughter had Down Syndrome. A touching tale.
In 2001 verander Erika Murray-Theron se lewe onherroeplik toe haar man, Tom, met parkinsonsiekte gediagnoseer word.
Erika begin haar vertelling eers in 2011, toe Tom in ’n meer gevorderde stadium van die siekte verkeer. Dit is die rou optekening van saamleef met ’n geliefde met parkinsons: die ervaring om die fisieke en intellektuele aftakeling van jou lewensmaat te aanskou, die fisieke eise wat met die versorging van so iemand gepaard gaan, en die emosionele inspanning wat dit kos om jouself te staal teen dramatiese en stadige verlies.
Anne Roiphe was not quite seventy years old when her husband of
nearly forty years unexpectedly passed away. But it was not until
her daughters placed a personal ad in a literary journal that
Roiphe began to consider the previously unimagined possibility of a
new man. Eloquent and astute, moving between heartbreaking memories
of her marriage and the pressing needs of a new day-to-day routine,
"Epilogue" takes us on her journey into the unknown world of life
after love.
Wise beyond her years, six-year-old Elena Desserich never stopped
teaching those around her to appreciate the miracle of everyday
living, even as she battled a rare form of brain cancer.Notes Left
Behind tells a story of humility and inspiration. Through personal
and candid journal entries they wrote as a remembrance for Elena's
younger sister, Brooke and Keith Desserich share their emotional
journey as a family, along with the private notes Elena hid around
the house for them to discover after she was gone. Heartbreaking,
moving, and inspiring, Elena's notes show us how, even during the
darkest moments of life, it is possible to find hope and
encouragement though selfless love.
"Garry Curtis is a solider, whom some might say is of misfortune,
rather that the opposite. Yet, he is a man, who has lived not one
but several lives in an existence of remarkable colour and
variance. His story is frank and heartfelt, expressed in a street
language that he knows intimately. From his earliest childhood
memories to the career direction that shaped his livelihood, he
expresses his emotions with intensity and sparkling wit. He has
been in the front-line. He has worked behind the scenes. However,
Garry is never the less that forthright and unafraid of pertinent
invective. This superbly well-expressed work is both dramatic and
tragic. It deals with with life and death in equal measure and
displays and energy that will fill you with laughter and hope."
Garry is a rare breed of man, he is a man of high standards and for
the most part a decent, caring lad who always looking out for those
around him. A once promising boxer, a former Royal Marines
commando, an elite firefighter in the fire rescue unit in London
and for a couple of decades as close protection and a hostile
environment consultant has been constantly putting himself in harms
way to look after those persons he has been given the privilege to
look after, as well as looking after others that have been in a bad
place during some kind of attack. Many lives saved also much death
around him. A family man, a father of four beautiful, adoring
children and his world is his grandson Ralph Garry has been asked
by so many people over the years to write a book and always pushed
it to one side. However, after a breathtaking daring escape whilst
held against his will in Libya 2011 by colonel Gaddaffis loyalist
gunmen, not only had Garry successfully escaped with the ITN media
team, he then returned to carry out what could have been a daring
rescue. A chain reaction of bad luck followed and lies as well as
embarrassment from an individual caused Garry's world to come
crashing down around him. During a four year period the man that so
many had entrusted their lives run out of fight and almost
succumbed to death not only from injury in Afghanistan, which led
to four huge surgeries where he contracted blood poisoning, also
the darkest place he has been his own war. Surprisingly or not
surprisingly, once you read what he has been through he almost died
at his own hand an attempted suicide. Then the love of his life
along with the dramas from a former lover in Ukraine. Garry's world
comes crashing down. The pride of this man was so great and the
financial ruin caused by just a very few and what he describes as
his perfect storm, the culmination of all this, wreaked havoc and
the trigger for Garry to step down that dark road. Garry being
Garry is back stronger than ever and rebuilding his life. This is
the powerful no warts brutal truth of a sometimes larger than life
ordinary down to earth guy some call a hero. Garry would always say
I am not a hero it's just a job, it's just me, I love my job. Gary
supports mental health charities such as Rock2Recovery a charity
set up to support men, women and families of the armed forces. Also
the London Air Ambulance as they flew Garry to Hospital when he
tried to commit suicide. Proceeds from "incoming" will go towards
helping these charities help people all over the U.K.
'Essential reading, not just for anyone struggling with mental
illness, but for anyone who knows someone who needs support. That's
all of us' Daisy Buchanan, author of How to Be a Grown-Up'An
essential, wondrous WOW of a book' Sarah Knight, New York Times
bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k
It doesn't matter that you've lived in the shadows, that you've
slept through years of your life, that you've done things you're
shamed to admit even to yourself. It doesn't matter that you're an
anxious mess with a shouty monster brain that keeps you from
conforming to society's definition of normal. How to Come Alive
Again is a relatable, honest, joyous and above all practical guide
for anyone who has a mental illness - or anyone who knows and loves
someone who does. Beth McColl shares what's worked for her and what
hasn't, and what she wishes she'd known from the start: from advice
on how get through a bad day to the truth about medication and what
to expect from a partner. Here are the basics for mending your
life, accepting yourself, and learning to live again.
Digital detox expert Tanya Goodin presents a compendium of
confessions, dilemmas and solutions that helps you untangle your
relationship with your phone and technology for a better, happier
you. Digital technology is more ingrained in our daily lives than
ever before, and so we need to be more aware of its risks. In this
un-putdownable self help toolkit, Tanya Goodin explores the cost
that our digital life inflicts on our offline existence, and the
things we can and should do to protect our mental health, our
family and our relationships in the face of this new digital
reality. Whether you are dealing with a partner who is mindlessly
scrolling rather than listening to you (phubbing), flooding social
media with your child's image (sharenting), or panicking whenever
you misplace your phone (nomophobia), learn how to recognise and
label harmful habits- both of yourself and others - and find
actionable answers in this book. The collision of our online and
offline worlds has left us more dependent on technology than ever
before, and even more desperate to log off. My Brain Has Too Many
Tabs Open is your key to finding digital balance and addressing
strange new social norms. Among the tech-versus-life scenarios
included are: Doomscrolling - endlessly consuming doom-and-gloom
news, a habit perpetuated by attention-seeking algorithms that
triggers anxiety and depression; Comparison Culture - 52% of teens
feel less confident because of feeling inadequate when comparing
their social media profiles with other people's; Vampire Shoppers -
dead-of-night, sleepless shoppers who spend a third more than
daytime shoppers, and range from nocturnal gamers to exhausted
parents; Digital Legacies - before the end of the century there
could be 4.9 billion deceased internet users, yet only 7% of us
want our online profiles maintained after death; Cyberchondria - Dr
Google is causing a wave of misdiagnoses from anxious searchers,
with 25% of British women buying false miracle cures as a next
step; Clicktivism - also known as slacktivism, is virtue signalling
through performative alignment with online causes, but can it ever
amount to meaningful change? Complete with client confessions and
eye-opening research, diagnostic guides to tell-tale signs and a
manifesto for improved digital citizenship, this habit-improving
bible offers the conversation-starting vocabulary we so desperately
need to understand and untangle our relationship with technology
for a more humane world.
’n Reenboog deur my trane is ’n bron van ryke troos en bemoediging
vir enigeen wat treur oor die verlies van ’n geliefde en wat
genesing soek vir hulle verskeurde harte. Dit bied 31 dagstukkies,
gebede en inspirerende aanhalings wat God se vertroosting in
onstuimige tyde met die leser deel, asook ’n lys van beloftes uit
die Bybel vir spesifieke behoeftes in tye van nood.
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