The Other Side Of Crazy

Author : Virginia Linn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734737905
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of Crazy written by Virginia Linn and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My life has been a series of mysteries. From a very early age, I was confronted with many challenges: psychological abuse, sexual abuse, and a range of mental disorders. I overcame many of these, but not without severe consequences.Schizophrenia is a chronic mental health condition characterized primarily by hallucinations (hearing and seeing things that aren't there) and delusions (false and fixed beliefs that are held regardless of contradictory evidence.) Schizoaffective disorder includes symptoms of schizophrenia as well as symptoms of a mood disorder such as mania (euphoria, racing thoughts, and insomnia) and depression (sadness, emptiness, and worthlessness). Dissociative identity disorder, or DID, is a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's actions, thoughts, feelings, memories, or sense of identity. My story is complicated. As a woman with a career in costume design and raising three boys with a husband I loved, I thought I was normal. Then, when I was 38, my life suddenly spiraled out of control. I experienced full-blown schizophrenia. Following my breakdown, I lived in multiple realities for a very long time. Little by little, through therapy and self-discovery, I returned to the reality other people shared. With time and effort, I wrote down my experiences and did everything I could to make them easy to understand.In my own hero's journey, I ventured into the labyrinth of insanity and back, and witnessed The Other Side of Crazy.

Author : Sascha Altman DuBrul
Publisher : Microcosm Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1621065030
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maps to the Other Side written by Sascha Altman DuBrul and published by Microcosm Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part mad manifesto, part revolutionary love letter, part freight train adventure story — Maps to the Other Side is a self-reflective shattered mirror, a twist on the classic punk rock travel narrative that searches for authenticity and connection in the lives of strangers and the solidarity and limitations of underground community. Beginning at the edge of the internet age, a time when radical zine culture prefigured social networking sites, these timely writings paint an illuminated trail through a complex labyrinth of undocumented migrants, anarchist community organizers, brilliant visionary artists, revolutionary seed savers, punk rock historians, social justice farmers, radical mental health activists, and iconoclastic bridge builders. This book is a document of one person’s odyssey to transform his experiences navigating the psychiatric system by building community in the face of adversity; a set of maps for how rebels and dreamers can survive and thrive in a crazy world.

Author : Allen Johnson
Publisher : Wellness Institute, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781587410925
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Side of Crazy written by Allen Johnson and published by Wellness Institute, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of simple and heart warming essays is about growing up, falling in love, and getting along with others. Spanning the author's life from boyhood to adult, the stories offer entertaining and gentle reminders of how we can become fully human and alive. The narratives are both funny and poignant, providing insights into personal integrity, interpersonal depth, and the elixer to life's toughest battles, good humor.

Author : Kendra Bergman
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You're Not F*Cking Crazy written by Kendra Bergman and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are not crazy simply because we see images or hear voices in our mind. When our Logical Brain thinks about it, it cannot rationalize what is happening. Our Egoic Mind jumps into action, convincing us we couldn’t possibly be having these experiences and certainly shouldn’t tell people about them. Our Egoic Mind knows these things sound crazy, “whackadoo”, “woo-woo,” out there, or impossible. Humanity is waking up to the reality that our Egoic Mind doesn’t know what is or is not possible. My generation was told, “Be careful what you say, or they’ll put you in the funny farm,” (meaning mental institution). Back then, little was known about mental health. The general public was simply taught that they lock up the crazy people. ‘They’ was assumed to be the courts and ‘crazy people’ were those who acted or thought outside of societal norms. If you were crazy, it was understood that the police would come to your home, put you in a straitjacket, and haul you away to an institution where doctors would run experiments and medicate you, while they attempted a cure. Obviously that wasn’t accurate, even back then. Now, scientists and doctors have studied the brain and human behavior to understand that not everything people experience that isn’t understood by our Egoic Mind is mental illness; this is exactly the reason I want you, the person reading this book, to share your experiences and accept you are not f*cking crazy.

Author : The Edward Clown Family
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423641248
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crazy Horse written by The Edward Clown Family and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A family account of the life of Tashunke Witko, their great Sioux relative . . . For the first time, the Clown family members tell their oral history.”—True West The Edward Clown family, nearest living relatives to the Lakota war leader, presents the family tales and memories told to them about their famous grandfather. In many ways the oral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of Crazy Horse. The family clarifies the inaccuracies and shares their story about the past, including what it means to them to be Lakota, the family genealogy, the life of Crazy Horse and his motivations, his death, and why they chose to keep quiet with their knowledge for so long before finally deciding to tell the truth as they know it. This book is a compelling addition to the body of works about Crazy Horse and the complicated and often conflicting events of that time period in American History. “For the first time the first-hand account of Crazy Horse is told . . . The stories were faithfully passed down through the generations . . . It includes Crazy Horse’s account of the last moments of Custer and the near-killing of Maj. Marcus Reno by Crazy Horse’s father.”—Capital Journal “After many years of keeping quiet, the family of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse decided to tell their story of his life and legacy . . . The truth behind the history of Crazy Horse—an iconic Native American warrior—until recently has been kept hidden for more than a century.”—The Monroe News

Author : Sarah Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442402822
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of Dark written by Sarah Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katie Mullens is known as the weird kid. Dead dad. Dead mom. Loner. Maybe crazy. Always drawing in her sketch pad, and she talks to herself—or at least that’s what it looks like. But Katie is talking to real people…they’re just dead. Law Walker is drawn to Katie when he sees the sketch she’s made of a historic home—the way it looked before it burned. Law soon discovers that Katie’s sight goes beyond death, and what she sees reveals the strange, twisted history of a famous Boston family’s connection to the illegal post-emancipation slave trade. Past, present. Living, dead. Black, white. This is a powerhouse debut about ugly histories, unlikely romances, and seeing people—alive and otherwise—for who they really are.

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803217874
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crazy Horse written by Mari Sandoz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being ?strange,? fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the U.S. government?s efforts to confine the Lakotas to reservations. Finally, in the spring of 1877 he surrendered, only to meet a violent death. More than a century later Crazy Horse continues to hold a special place in the hearts and minds of his people. Mari Sandoz offers a powerful evocation of the long-ago world and enduring spirit of Crazy Horse. Chosen as a 2007 One Book, One Nebraska selection, this edition of Crazy Horse includes discussion questions and a comprehensive glossary to enhance the reader's experience with this classic Sandoz text.

Author : Susannah Meadows
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 081299647X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of Impossible written by Susannah Meadows and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "True stories about people who triumphed over seemingly impossible medical diagnoses using untraditional, inventive therapies and perseverance--and about what scientists are discovering on the psychology of healing and the mind-body connection--from the author of the New York Times Magazine article about her own son, 'The Boy with the Thorn in his Joints,' which led to this book about other families"

Author : Judy Reiser
Publisher : Judy Reiser
ISBN 13 : 0970761902
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And I Thought I Was Crazy! Quirks, Idiosyncrasies and Meshugaas written by Judy Reiser and published by Judy Reiser. This book was released on 2001 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you go nuts if hangers aren't all facing in the same direction; refuse to take the top neswpaper on a stack (even if it's in perfect condition); insist on the toilet paper hanging towards the front? People do the darndest things! Laugh. Chortle & gasp at people's quirks.

Author : Judith Baker Montano
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1571201734
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crazy Quilt Handbook written by Judith Baker Montano and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes how-to information.