Showing results for "Freak" in Mental Health

Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes - having meltdowns, getting addicted to things, or shutting down completely at the worst possible moments. Your brain knows it's not good to do these things, but it can't help it sometimes - especially if it's obsessing about trauma it can't overcome. That's where this life-changing book comes in. With humor, patience, science, and lots of good-ole swearing, Dr. Faith explains what's going on in your skull, and talks you through the process of retraining your brain to respond appropriately....

Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Here, Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival in an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello, Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to life for those who want to stay on the edge, but alive.

Como podemos lidar com um mundo que já sofre de turbulência política, pobreza, desigualdade social e convulsões ambientais e que agora enfrenta, além disso, uma pandemia mortal? Neste audiolivro, dois clínicos brilhantes, uma psicóloga e um psiquiatra, valem-se de décadas de estudos e prática clínica para orientar o ouvinte na pesquisa sobre como podemos ficar bem e até mais fortes ao enfrentar esses desafios assustadores.