The Edge of Sanity

The Edge of Sanity
Author: Olivia Burnett
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2007-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0595433820

After high school, all eighteen-year-old Olivia wants is a new start. But when she quits her summer job in Yellowstone, Olivia, a former straight A student descends into a life of bipolar madness. Through it all, she keeps on driving, to the edge of sanity, perhaps beyond.

Edge of Sanity

Edge of Sanity
Author: Deepak Kanakaraju
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2019-06-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1645877418

Entrepreneurship is not an easy game. There are so many challenges in the journey, and no one said it was easy to build a business. However, with certain base principles and fundamentals, the journey can be made easy. Edge of Sanity is written from the personal experiences of Deepak Kanakaraju in trying to build his start-up company. The book explores topics like ethics, value creation, an entrepreneur’s mindset, personal health, productivity, marketing and more. Entrepreneurship is hard and it drives many people to the edge of sanity. However, with good mentorship, advice, discipline, team and a long-term vision, anyone can succeed as an entrepreneur. This is a book that everyone should read before starting up a new business. The chapters in this book are designed in such a way that one chapter can be read every day, and one can complete reading the book within a month. They are not necessarily in sequence, and can be read in any order.

Edge of Sanity

Edge of Sanity
Author: Jesi Met
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2009-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1438965001

What is the distinction between reality and fiction? Sanity and insanity? These are the questions that twin siblings Jasmin and Herby find themselves attempting to answer. Jasmin writes in an attempt to understand what is true. She struggles to maintain separation between her scrambled memories and her grief stricken reality without losing herself in the process. Herby tries to answer most of the unanswered questions that Jasmin's letters raise. He also battles between his sanity and insanity in his efforts to gain the love and affection of his beloved sister. He will eliminate any boundaries that come between him and what his heart longs for regardless of the consequences. However, what ails the two most is what has brought them to the mental torment they suffer. Their less than normal childhoods certainly did not foster reputable adulthoods. What confines Jasmin to her white prison? Who are her daily noonday "friends" that visit her at the cusp of her reality leaning over her imagination? What motivates Herby to want to destroy all those that stand in his way of pursuing his only love? Will he accomplish all that his soul desperately tries to fulfill? With all these unanswered questions and more, it is no wonder why the two bear the mental torment to which they are submitted.

Edge of Sanity

Edge of Sanity
Author: Marlene Russell Lovejoy
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780533156740

Millions of Americans suffer with some type of mental health disorder. Even in our sophisticated society, these issues are still spoken about in whispered tones. Marlene Russell Lovejoy relates her experiences and reveals the horrifying labyrinths of a disturbed mind. As bouts of darkness and hopelessness lead to panic, fear, and thoughts of suicide, she continually questions her sanity. Even her deep faith in God cannot suppress the abrupt switch to mania and the impending fear of entering a mental institution. Marlene's honest and straghtforward journal, Edge of Sanity: Journal of Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Beyond, speaks to people in everyday language about mental health disorders. She sheds new light on what it is like to live with a serious disorder, and how she manages her symptoms through medication, diet, prayer, exercise, and therapy. Her purposeful intent is to dispel any misconceptions that remain about these topics and promote openness and acceptance. Book jacket.

Die Wise

Die Wise
Author: Stephen Jenkinson
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2015-03-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1583949739

Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places death at the center of the page and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty. Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well. Die Wise is for those who will fail to live forever. Dying well, Jenkinson writes, is a right and responsibility of everyone. It is not a lifestyle option. It is a moral, political, and spiritual obligation each person owes their ancestors and their heirs. Die Wise dreams such a dream, and plots such an uprising. How we die, how we care for dying people, and how we carry our dead: this work makes our capacity for a village-mindedness, or breaks it. Table of Contents The Ordeal of a Managed Death Stealing Meaning from Dying The Tyrant Hope The Quality of Life Yes, But Not Like This The Work So Who Are the Dying to You? Dying Facing Home What Dying Asks of Us All Kids Ah, My Friend the Enemy

The Myth of Sanity

The Myth of Sanity
Author: Martha Stout
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2002-02-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1101161639

Why does a gifted psychiatrist suddenly begin to torment his own beloved wife? How can a ninety-pound woman carry a massive air conditioner to the second floor of her home, install it in a window unassisted, and then not remember how it got there? Why would a brilliant feminist law student ask her fiancé to treat her like a helpless little girl? How can an ordinary, violence-fearing businessman once have been a gun-packing vigilante prowling the crime districts for a fight? A startling new study in human consciousness, The Myth of Sanity is a landmark book about forgotten trauma, dissociated mental states, and multiple personality in everyday life. In its groundbreaking analysis of childhood trauma and dissociation and their far-reaching implications in adult life, it reveals that moderate dissociation is a normal mental reaction to pain and that even the most extreme dissociative reaction-multiple personality-is more common than we think. Through astonishing stories of people whose lives have been shattered by trauma and then remade, The Myth of Sanity shows us how to recognize these altered mental states in friends and family, even in ourselves.

Who Do We Choose To Be?

Who Do We Choose To Be?
Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-06-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1523083646

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of her classic Leadership and the New Science, bestselling author Margaret Wheatley once again turns to the new science of living systems to help leaders persevere in a time of great turmoil. I know it is possible for leaders to use their power and influence, their insight and compassion, to lead people back to an understanding of who we are as human beings, to create the conditions for our basic human qualities of generosity, contribution, community and love to be evoked no matter what. I know it is possible to experience grace and joy in the midst of tragedy and loss. I know it is possible to create islands of sanity in the midst of wildly disruptive seas. I know it is possible because I have worked with leaders over many years in places that knew chaos and breakdown long before this moment. And I have studied enough history to know that such leaders always arise when they are most needed. Now it's our turn.

Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-06-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0804151113

30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

The Edge of the Sword

The Edge of the Sword
Author: General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2007-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1844156923

In April 1951, at the height of the Korean War, Chinese troops advanced south of the 38th parallel towards a strategic crossing-point of the Imjin River on the invasion route to the South Korean capital of Seoul. The stand of the 1st Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment, against the overwhelming numbers of invading troops has since passed into British military history. In The Edge of the Sword General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, then Adjutant of the Glosters, has painted a vivid and accurate picture of the battle as seen by the officers and soldiers caught up in the middle of it. The book does not, however, end there. Like the majority of those who survived, the author became a prisoner-of-war, and the book continues with a remarkable account of his experiences in and out of Chinese prison camps. This book is not an attempt at a personal hero-story, and it is certainly not a piece of political propaganda. It is, above all, an amazing story of human fortitude and high adventure.