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What books have helped you with your mental health?
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@icecream Thank you for sharing your recommendation, that book sounds very interesting.
@Tigger.co.uk I am so sorry to hear about your father. As you said, it is good that mental health services are becoming more humane and informed. Hopefully the NHS will continue down this road. Thank you for sharing 
Do any other members have a book that helped them or made an impression on them? Please share :)
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Josephine, Community Manager
Hello everyone,
How are you doing? 
Have you read any of the books mentioned here? What books have helped you with your mental health?
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Feel free to share here, we're all here to help and support one another!
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Courtney
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It's not a sales pitch, but has anyone else read the above book by Bessel Van Der Kolk ? I found it extremely useful in describing what is going on within our brians and bodies to cause mental illness, particularly PTSD and depression and anxiety, and why the symptoms and behaviour we express are happening.
I suppose someone would have to be comfortable reading some biological and other technical terms, and some harrowing case studies, to get the most of it, but it does offer a lot of information on what has helped people and why. Some really amazing, actual, cures too, especially from EMDR. That has helped me a lot too.
Medication is treated as necessary sometimes, but considered too hit and miss, and too easiy resorted to by the medical profession, hence the book really, looking deeper. Some might think some of the suggestions are too ''new agey'', and that's also understood to be fine, as different personalities respond to different approaches, but the book covers the reasons why the suggestions have worked, through lengthy case studies, for some people, thus offering the reader the insight needed if they were to find something that worked on the brian / mind and body in a similar way.
One quote I read today, '' It's like a log-jamb in a river, one you can remove one big log, the rest gradually falls apart, allowing the river to flow freely'', was an 'aha' moment for me, as I had my first real, commited, congruent, counselling session in 45 year last week and was feeling progressively better, one and a half steps up and only one down, a day, in mood and outlook. I still cry about the past and panic about the future, but I can feel that is coming from the goodness in me, so slowly I start to feel better in myself, knowing that good is there, that I am not my mistakes or my ilness.