LIVRO Loving Your Superpowers: Mental Health Challenges Can Become Strengths (English Edition) PDF Andy Bradbury MD

In this friendly book a family physician sits down with you to discuss mental health using understandable and positive images. If you wonder what depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, ADD, PTSD, and other mental health challenges are, if you wonder if you have them or what you should do about them, then this book can help. If you are nervous or fearful about getting help, or embarrassed about seeing a counselor or taking a medication, then this is definitely your book. This is a quick read with no fluff, intended to give you a practical way to look at your mental health using an optimistic model and framework that can be remembered. We all need to have our feelings validated and I hope you will feel positive about yourself as you experience these brief chapters. Nowhere here will you find the concept of being crazy; everything is about being human.Mental health problems are a large part of every family physician’s practice. Family physicians provide more mental health care in the United States than psychiatrists. This is partly due to a shortage of psychiatrists, but it is also due to the stigma people associate with mental health problems and the comfort they have with a good family physician. This little book strives to recreate the feeling, caring, and guidance you might receive from a trusted family doctor. It represents over three decades of practice in that schedule-driven world where we have only minutes to try to understand each other and provide a few choice words, some of which we hope will land where they can grow and produce healing fruit. You will not find here self-help exercises, detailed explanations, or the results of scientific research. What you hopefully will find is a concise collection of mental images and validating perspectives on your mental health which bring you understanding of your own worth and strengths. This collection of short pieces provides a way of looking at our experiences which seems to resonate in a healthy manner with my patients. It is written with a personal human feeling and I hope it is received the same way. I wish you to come through this with optimism and empowerment. We are not going to solve your problems in these few chapters, but you might learn of something new that can send you in a fresh direction. Today’s crisis can be the launching pad for the changes we need. I genuinely want you to feel better and am optimistic that you will. I hope there is something of value here for you, whatever your challenge may be, and I pray you have new flashes of insight that lead to improved health and even joy.