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Helena Smole presents her own successful path out of her daily struggle against extreme mood swings, suicidal thoughts, paranoia, and other delusions in her book Balancing the Beast: A Bright View of Schizoaffective Disorder - Bipolar or Manic-Depressive Type. The book describes a unique combination of humor and hard work along with psychiatric medication. The mental exercises, lifestyle choices, and other alternative medicine approaches that she combined with clinically-prescribed medication eventually led to the alleviation of her illness. As shown in the book, her success is to a significant extent due to having fully accepted herself the way she is, the illness included.
This is a positive thinking book for people with mental illness, as well as for their relatives, friends, and co-workers.br />
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You will discover:br />
- That you can learn how to live a happy life with schizoaffective disorder.br />
- That the stickiest label anyone can put on your forehead is the one you put there yourself.br />
- The way the author lets her psychiatrists deal with her mental illness while she chooses to improve her personality and self-image, and to change her life style in order to support the efforts of the psychiatrists.br />
- That your sensiti | |  | | Out of the Forest and into the City
This is a story of a couple who love each other truly, but face many obstacles in their relationship, just like any other couple. The difference is that in addition to couples therapy, they can also rely on dwarfs and fairies in a pinch.
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