Rough magic : living with borderline personality disorder / Newman, Miranda

"A harrowing but ultimately uplifting literary memoir about living with borderline personality disorder--the most stigmatized diagnosis in mental health. 'I didn't know whether to take you to a psychologist or an exorcist.' This is how Miranda Newman's mother described the experience of trying to find an explanation for her daughter's behaviour. It would be years before Miranda was able to find a diagnosis that explained the complicated way she moved through the world. She would have to advocate for herself in the mental health system while dealing with abuse, homelessness, survival sex, suicide attempts and hospitalizations. Through it all, Miranda has found strength in her diagnosis. Her recollections are visceral and confessional, but also self-aware, irreverent and funny. She tells readers how she has found strength and joy in what others might see as tragic, while bolstering her personal recollections with deeply researched observations on Canada's mental healthcare system, and the history of diagnostics and disorder, using research supported by her work at Yale University."--

Sociopath : a memoir / Gagne, Patric

With emotions like fear, guilt and empathy eluding her, the author, trying to replace the nothingness with something, realizes, after connecting with an old flame, if she's capable of love, it must mean she isn't a monster and sets out to prove the millions of Americans who share her diagnosis aren't all monsters either.

Tripped : Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the dawn of the psychedelic age / Ohler, Norman

"Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use--long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws--is rampant throughout the city. Split into four sectors, Berlin's drug policies are being enforced under the individual jurisdictions of each allied power--the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the US. In the American zone, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' anti-drug laws and bringing home anything that might prove "useful" to the United States. Five years later, Harvard professor Dr. Henry Beecher began work with the US government to uncover the research behind the Nazis psychedelics program. Begun as an attempt to find a "truth serum" and experiment with mind control, the Nazi study initially involved mescaline, but quickly expanded to include LSD. Originally created for medical purposes by Swiss pharmaceutical Sandoz, the Nazis coopted the drug for their mind control military research--research that, following the war, the US was desperate to acquire. This research birthed MKUltra, the CIA's notorious brainwashing and psychological torture program during the 1950s and 1960s, and ultimately shaped US drug policy regarding psychedelics for over half a century. Based on extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, TRIPPED is a wild, unconventional postwar history, a spiritual sequel to Norman Ohler's New York Times bestseller BLITZED. Revealing the close relationship and hidden connections between the Nazis and the early days of drugs in America, Ohler shares how this secret history held back therapeutic research of psychedelic drugs for decades and eventually became part of the foundation of America's War on Drugs"--

You don't make friends with salad : the secret to losing weight and feeling better, with no kale in sight / Gerlock, Jessica

Do you want to lose weight but don't know where to begin? Are you an adult picky eater? Do you want to live a healthier lifestyle? You Don't Make Friends with Salad: the Secret to Losing Weight and Feeling Better, with No Kale in Sight is an anti-diet weight loss book geared toward adult picky eaters and anyone wanting to make a healthy change in their life. This lifestyle guidebook is a fresh approach to healthy weight loss and to adopting an all-around healthy lifestyle. You Don't Make Friends with Salad includes healthy recipes, motivational quotes, and at-home workout routines to get you started in the right direction. It is written by Jessica Gerlock, a certified personal trainer (through the National Academy of Sports Medicine) who underwent her own significant weight loss transformation after reaching a peak of 227 pounds, being only five feet tall, and spending two decades struggling with mental illness, body shaming and obesity. Yes, you guessed it. She lost over 100 pounds and has kept it off without eating salads! Jessica shares her personal stories, tips and tricks for a successful and positive weight loss journey.

The revolt against psychiatry : a counterhegemonic dialogue / Burstow, Bonnie

"A real eye-opener, this riveting anti/critical psychiatry book is comprised of original cutting-edge dialogues between Burstow (an antipsychiatry theorist and activist) and other leaders in the "revolt against psychiatry," including radical practitioners, lawyers, reporters, activists, psychiatric survivors, academics, family members, and artists. People in dialogue with the author include Indigenous leader Roland Chrisjohn, psychiatrist Peter Breggin, survivor Lauren Tenney, and scholar China Mills. The single biggest focus/tension in the book is a psychiatry abolition position versus a critical psychiatry (or reformist) position. In the scope of this project, Burstow considers the ways racism, genocide, Indigeneity, sexism, media bias, madness, neurodiversity, and strategic activism are intertwined with critical and antipsychiatry."--

Great bones : taking control of your osteoporosis / Mccormick, R. Keith

"Dr. McCormick knows what potential dangers lurk for women and men who don't understand the life cycle of bone, who don't realize the role nutrition plays in bone health, who don't know what can happen to bone even when they think they're doing "everything right." In his mission to help readers--women and men, athletes and nonathletes, primary care physicians and specialists--Dr. McCormick explains not just the fundamentals of osteoporosis but also the pathophysiology of bone loss and what it takes to regain skeletal health. If you're a patient suffering from bone loss, Dr. McCormick helps you take control of your osteoporosis; if you're a doctor, he lays out the most up-to date science so you can best serve your patients. Great Bones is a book everyone can use to achieve better skeletal health well into their 70s, 80s, and beyond."--Back cover.

Gold's rounds : medicine, McGill, and growing up Jewish in Montreal / Gold, Phil

"Growing up on St. Lawrence Boulevard, Phil Gold never aspired to be a doctor. But working as an encyclopedia salesman, a bottle washer at Molson, and a fur-coat schlepper in textile factories helped him realize and embrace his parents' desire for him to follow that path. Looking back at his short wander from the Main to nearby McGill University and the Montreal General Hospital, Gold coins a new word, fortunome, to evoke his sense of a lucky life: "Our genome comes from our parents; our environment or epigenome shapes the expression of who we are; but without a good fortunome, life's odds turn against us." A born storyteller, Gold recounts the sights and sounds of a bygone era-horse-drawn milk carts, Yiddish neighbourhoods full of Holocaust survivors, furniture chopped up to keep the home fires burning, sacks of grain lugged off ships in the harbour, antisemitism and ethnic street-fighting, the padlocked doors of the Red Scare, his father's first car. Gold tells the story of dating and marrying the love of his life, Evelyn, studying under the brilliant Sir Arnold Burgen, and his discovery of CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen) in a clear, fast-moving narrative that grips and fascinates. Gold's Rounds also includes unforgettable stories from six decades of treating patients at the General, scenes from the founding of the famous Goodman Cancer Institute, and reflections on the physician's role and the meaning of a good death. By turns funny, wise, and heartrending, Gold's memoir of a life well lived will be cherished by both medical professionals and general readers."--

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A plant-based nutrition and beginner's guide : how to change your diet, improve health, lose weight & build sustainable habits in 28 days / Sinclair, Todd

The second book in Sinclair's Rebel Vegan trilogy is your complete manual for creating a plant-based lifestyle -- in a sustainable way that works for you.

A radical take on veganism for a brave new world : how to transform your health & protect the environment with a cruelty-free plant-based diet / Sinclair, Todd

Author and activist Todd Sinclair shows how vegan values are a fundamental way forward to avoid future pandemics, protect animals and the planet, and take care of our health. Sinclair's first book in his Rebel Vegan trilogy demystifies a way of living shrouded in misinformation. This newly updated second edition reflects our rapidly shifting times and includes a whole new chapter on the future of food and veganism.