Insomniac
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I can't work, I can't think, I can't connect with anyone anymore. . . . I mope through a day's work and haven't had a promotion in years. . . . It's like I'm being sucked dry, eaten away, swallowed up, coming unglued. . . . These are voices of a few of the tens of millions who suffer from chronic insomnia. In this revelatory book, Gayle Greene offers a uniquely comprehensive account of this devastating and little-understood condition. She has traveled the world in a quest for answers, interviewing neurologists, sleep researchers, doctors, psychotherapists, and insomniacs of all sorts. What comes of her extraordinary journey is an up-to-date account of what is known about insomnia, providing the information every insomniac needs to know to make intelligent choices among medications and therapies. Insomniac is at once a field guide through the hidden terrain inhabited by insomniacs and a book of consolations for anyone who has struggled with this affliction that has long been trivialized and neglected.
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It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness Shares nonfiction, psychology, science -
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind Shares nonfiction, psychology, memoir -
My Mother's Keeper: A Daughter's Memoir Of Growing Up In The Shadow Of Schizophrenia Shares nonfiction, memoir, psychology -
Coming of Age on Zoloft: How Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We Are Shares nonfiction, psychology, memoir
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Psychiatric Interviewing: the Art of Understanding A Practical Guide for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses, and Other Mental Health Professionals
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Things That Make Us (Sic): The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar Takes on Madison Avenue, Hollywood, the White House, and the World
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Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist
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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
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A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
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The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
