Your Mental Health Repair Manual
An Empowering, No-Nonsense Guide to Navigating Mental Health Care and Finding Treatments That Work for You
by Pauline Lysak, Mark Roseman
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Pub Date Nov 25 2019 | Archive Date Jun 15 2020
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Description
Kick start your stalled mental health care!
Do you feel stuck? Lost? Overwhelmed? Are you going in circles?
You can do better! You just need a guide to help you move forward. In this book, a psychiatrist reveals insider strategies to uncover resources, make smarter choices, and avoid common mistakes.
Explore all your treatment options: diet, exercise, therapy, supplements, meds, and many more.
You'll discover a faster, better way to find the right treatments for you. Investigate evidence-based solutions for depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar, ADHD, OCD, panic, phobias, personality disorders, and other mental health challenges.
Too many people suffer needlessly before finding help. End the frustration! This candid and approachable guide will start you on the right path to better mental health today.
From the back cover:
Mental health care driving you crazy?
It should be easy: ask for help, get help.
Far too many people ask but don’t get the help they need. Instead, they get vague advice. Treatments that don’t work. Conflicting opinions. Silence, or worse.
You’ve got questions, but few answers.
How should you move forward?
Diet? Talk therapy? Herbs? Pills? Help!
If your mental health care has stalled, you need easy-to-follow, real-world solutions. Let this honest and engaging guide help you navigate the gaps in your mental health care and find answers that are uniquely right for you.
Break the cycle. Stop feeling powerless. Discover:
* how your physical health, diet, exercise, talk therapy, medications, cannabis, and natural health products all affect your mental health;
* strategies to overcome expensive treatments, shortages of family physicians and mental health specialists, long waiting lists, and rushed appointments;
* critical but widespread mistakes that waste your time and keep you from finding the most effective treatments; and
* practical tools to cut through uncertainty, make smart choices, fill the gaps your healthcare providers can't, and keep your care on track.
By the end of Your Mental Health Repair Manual, you’ll have a deeper understanding of your mental well-being, all your treatment options, and how to choose between them. You’ll have a working treatment plan, avoiding needless delays. You’ll confidently know how to get from where you are today to where you want to be.
Advance Praise
This book helps people struggling with an already difficult journey, find tangible, realistic and hopeful support. The authors help us understand the murky and ever changing mental health care system that often doesn't make sense to people seeking assistance. The variety of topics give the reader valuable information and abilities to stock their mental health toolbox in order to continue the journey to improved health. Easy to read, easy to understand and the laughs are clever!
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781999149550 |
| PRICE | $2.99 (USD) |
Links
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Featured Reviews
Julia J, Reviewer
An informative and well set out book.
It is written in three major parts, what depression is, the care required to cope with your diagnosis and the treatment that would suit you better.
I found the information very helpful and was glad to have a copy through Netgalley.
Educator 593322
This was an interesting book discussing issues like depression, panic attacks, phobias and PTSD in a straight forward almost scientific way. It discusses how to concentrate on the things you can control like diet, exercise, therapy, supplements and medication.
Well researched and may help a wide range of individuals.
Thanks to netgalley for froward copy.
Mukesh G, Reviewer
I got a digital review copy of this book via NetGalley. Having experienced depression in my own life, I could really related to some of the challenges that mental health patients face in their journey. The authors have provided great inputs on how we can take ownership of our care and make the most of the given situation.
The authors have also done a great job of explaining all the different types of medications and what effect they have on our mind and body. So, if you are a mental health patient or take care of a mental health patient, this is a great book to read.
Natalie H, Reviewer
I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.
This book is a fantastic guide for anyone who thinks they may have a mental health problem and at a loss as to navigating receiving the care they need and want or that have been diagnosed as having one but are not receiving the care they need.
This book could be overwhelming as it contains a lot of information but this is a wealth of information too which can not only help and guide someone with a mental illness but their loved ones too.
This is a fantastic book to help and support anyone wanting to help themselves or someone important to them especially as the mental health services of today are under funded, hard to reach and navigating the help needed can be a minefield - I have had depression for over 15 years and still don't have the help I should have received so this book to me was a wealth of knowledge, understanding and direction.
Linde B, Reviewer
This was a very helpful book. It touched upon important things, and I think that it has helped me a lot. If you need some actual help, do go seek help. But as far as this goes, its good.
Lauren B, Reviewer
I think just now even people who do not normally have mental health issues are having problems and issues, we are in a very different and uncertain world to normal.. What i really like about this book is it goes through different things that could help - and shows its not a one step approach for everyone. i really found it educational and i think a lot of people should read it.
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