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Are you inclined to escape the crumminess of everyday life into fantasy worlds? Are you smart and imaginative in a way that isn't really suited to your surroundings? Are you definitely misunderstood, likely angry, and almost certainly depressed? Set Sytes, hailing from the UK, would prefer you stay alive and sort things out rather than the alternative, thanks. He figures there are better opportunities for you out there and lays it all out in a way that's compelling, funny, sharp, and useful.

Ten years after the school massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school shootings are a new and alarming epidemic. While sociologists have attributed the trigger of violence to peer pressure, such as bullying and social isolation, prominent psychologist Peter Langman, argues here that psychological causes are responsible. Drawing on 20 years of clinical experience, Langman offers surprising reasons for why some teens become violent. Langman divides shooters into three categories, and he discusses the role of personality, trauma, and psychosis among school shooters.  

Introducing us to eleven ordinary women who came to commit extreme acts, Anna Motz sheds light on women's capacity for violence. She takes the listener on a journey into psychotherapy, uncovering their motives and the fault lines in their psyche that led to their crimes. We meet Mary, who turned to arson after her son was taken into care, Maja, whose fantasy life led to her stalking an ex-boyfriend, and Dolores, whose terrible crime is unimaginable to most people.

The statistics on suicide are staggering. The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 800,000 people die by suicide every year, which is one person every forty seconds, and for each completed suicide there may be twenty or more attempts. In How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me, Susan Blauner is the perfect emissary for a message of hope and a program of action for these millions of people. 

Don't Let Your Kids Kill You is a landmark work that dares to focus on the plight of the confused, distressed parent and not the erring child. It sets aside any preconceived ideas that parents are to blame for what is essentially a full-blown global crisis. Drawing on interviews with parents who have survived the heartbreak of kids on drugs, combined with his own experience, Charles Rubin provides practical advice on how parents can help themselves and their families by first attending to their own needs.

“A bold and intricate exploration of catastrophe as not just a transformative experience or a test case for resilience, but something that completely reinvents us—a reincarnation.”—Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road “A masterpiece—a book that...

Do you crave relief from the constant depression or anxiety that’s exhausted your will to live and made suicide seem the only sensible solution to your unhappiness? Now, you can fight back and win by unleashing the Seven Life Hacks: a “wildly original” and surprisingly simple system to crush your inner demons and make your life worth living again.

A deep dive into a national catastrophe that examines how and why suicide happens so that we can prevent it Suicide has reached epidemic proportions in America, claiming over 45,000 lives each year—more than car accidents or homicides. For every person who dies there are about 10 unsuccessful...

This stress prevention book gives you the tools to increase your certainty, confidence, and conviction in managing and preventing levels of stress, panic, and anxiety that otherwise limit your effectiveness, especially around Christmas. This book is based upon proven stress prevention techniques and mindfulness techniques, including many of the ways that top achievers think and behave when preventing stress, panic, and anxiety. It looks at the causes and symptoms of stress as well as numerous easy-to-apply methods and processes of stress management and stress prevention.

It is a fact of human nature that we are capable of experiencing a wide range of thoughts and feelings, some of which are deeply troubling. One such thought that many people may experience at some point in their lives is the desire to kill someone. This is a disturbing and distressing thought that can evoke feelings of guilt, shame, and self-loathing. But it is important to remember that having such thoughts does not make you a bad person. In fact, many people experience this thought at some point in their lives without ever acting on it.

If you or someone you know has suddenly lost interest in the things they normally love, has trouble sleeping, or sleeps too much, there is a possibility that it’s depression. Sometimes depression is subtle, and sometimes it can be in your face. The main thing to note is that if you’re feeling hopeless, sad, and empty for more than two weeks, you probably are suffering from depression. Thankfully, depression is very treatable.

In a world roiling with calamities, anxieties, and dreams that appear to drift further away with every passing year, the pandemic that is suicide has never scaled higher. Embark upon the tragically typical journey of the author of this book to see for yourself, how one can end their battle with depression, and the very idea of suicide - today.

This is a self-help guide about depression, some of its signs and symptoms, as well as some of its treatments. If you feel that you are depressed, this book can help you identify the necessary steps that you may need to take in order to recover.

What Did Not Kill Me, Made Me is the second in a trilogy after the best-selling and award-winning book Girl, Taken: A True Story of Abductions, Captivity and Survival.

If you want to make sure you are empathetic toward yourself and others, then you must discover the secrets of self-awareness! If you like to treat others the right and correct way, and you also want people to treat you the same way, then learn how to develop emotional intelligence with tips that have been tested in practice!