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"In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental illness, eating disorders, and the self-destructive voice inside that she calls "outofshapeworthlessloser." When Gracie Gold stepped onto center stage (or ice, rather) as America's sweetheart at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, she instantly became the face of America's most beloved winter sport. Beautiful, blonde, Midwestern, and media-trained, she was suddenly...
5) Managing OCD
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"OCD is a mental illness that affects about one in forty adults and one in one hundred children in the United States. The disorder exhibits two major aspects which give it its name: obsessions, which are recurring unwanted thoughts, urges, or mental images that cause a person anxiety and distress; and compulsions, repetitive behaviors that a person feels compelled to perform. OCD sufferers experience obsessions, compulsions, or both at the same time,...
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"From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days...
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"Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin reveals that disordered eating is an epidemic crisis killing millions of women. Women of all ages struggle with disordered eating, preoccupation with food, and body anxiety. Journalist Cole Kazdin was one such woman, and she set out to see if the impossibility of her own full recovery from an eating disorder was all in her head. Interviewing women across...
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"Collectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric problem, affecting about forty million adults in the United States. In Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, whose NYU lab has been at the forefront of research efforts to understand and treat fear and anxiety, explains the range of these disorders, their origins, and discoveries that can restore sufferers to normalcy. LeDoux's groundbreaking premise is that we've been thinking about fear and anxiety...
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"It's Not All In Your Head -- PMDD Is Real ... Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, or PMDD, affects an estimated 3 million women in the United States. Those who suffer from this extreme form of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) can experience severe symptoms like depression, anxiety, fatigue, and panic attacks. The effects of PMDD can put careers, relationships, and even lives at risk, yet some physicians refuse to even acknowledge that the condition even...
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Nearly three decades after she detailed her first battle with anorexia in Solitaire, Aimee Liu presents a sequel. Liu believed she had conquered anorexia in her twenties. Then, in her forties, when her life once again began spiraling out of control, she stopped eating--the same forces that had caused her original eating disorder were still in play. Other women she knew with histories of anorexia and bulimia seemed to share many of her personality...