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NAMI EASTSIDE Want to buy a book and help NAMI Eastside at the same time? Click below. Thank you!!  |
Lending Library The NAMI Eastside Lending Library provides books, videos, and journals available to loan at no charge. This resource includes information on a wide range of topics important to anyone seeking to increase their knowledge about mental health diagnoses, recovery, and coping skills for individuals, family and friends.Brochures are provided free of charge at the NAMI Eastside office concerning support groups, and educational programs for anyone seeking an excellent overview, or starting point to learn about mental health issues. Anyone interested in more information or in donating books or videos related to mental illness to our library, please contact us. Ways to Browse our Selections: A FEW OF OUR SELECTIONS: Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia by Marva Hornbecher/ New York : HarperCollins, 1998 (298 p). Bulimic since she was 9 years old, anorexic since she was about 15, the author reveals how and why women with these eating disorders can be helped and, most of all, how long it takes for that help to take hold. Healing from depression: 12 weeks to a better mood, a body, mind, and spirit recovery program by Douglas Bloch / Berkeley : Celestial Arts, 2002 (443 p.) Author Douglas Bloch shares his struggle with and ultimate recovery from a life-threatening depressive illness. He offers a practical "survival plan" for living inhell-which he adopted until a group of committed, loving people held a vision of his recovery which lead to a spiritual healing. In addition to the personal narrative, the second half of the book contains Douglas's "Better Mood Recovery Program"--a five-part comprehensive program for treating depression and anxiety through a holistic approach that includes diet, nutrition, exercise, social support, attitudinal healing, prayer, meditation and relaxation techniques. The program offers a week-by-week plan with worksheets and goal sheets to customize your recovery. Moreover, the book's appendix contains an extensive catalog of Internet sites offering up-to-date information on treating mood disorders and addictions. I am not sick, I don’t need help! : helping the seriously mentally ill accept treatment : a practical guide for families and therapists by Xavier Amador with Anna-Lisa Johanson / New York : Vida Press, 2000. The book offers a sensitive presentation of a practical, clinically sound, approach to getting a severely ill person to accept needed treatment. The author provides families and mental health professionals with a concrete, step-by-step plan to improve awareness of illness. It’s nobody’s fault: new hope and help for difficult children and their parents by Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D./ New York: Random House, 1996 (303 p). This book explains brain chemistry, genetics, children’s behavioral and emotional problems, and the use of medication in children in understandable language. It offers practical information that will prove useful to professionals and parents alike.
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