In The Opiate Cure: Pain and the Bipolar Spectrum, Robert T. Cochran makes this claim: “I have, with opiate therapy, relieved mood-shifting bipolarity, narcolepsy, attention deficiency, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic... Read More

“I often use creative visualization to get inmates to look at personal issues,” writes correctional deputy Carla Wilson. She believes in helping inmates, not just supervising them. As Wilson writes about the development of her... Read More

Joe Wise has been sober for more than twenty-two years—but has suffered serious medical consequences as a result of his drinking. In I Want to Go to Heaven … But Not Yet, Wise tries to help readers cope with adversity. He shares... Read More

When Jeanne Byrns was a young girl she announced that she wanted to tell her teacher that she was being sexually abused by her father. Her stepmother responded with, “If you do that, your daddy will go to jail.” The stepmother... Read More

“I have flashbacks of excessively painful memories that never leave me,” Cherylann Thomas writes. Thomas’ malignant, narcissistic mother destroyed her self-esteem, and Thomas’ severe fear of her mother continued in adulthood.... Read More

"The Danny Diaries" is a cautionary tale for any parent dealing with a case of suspected mental illness in a child. Author Ann Cluver Weinberg, who calls herself Lucy in this memoir, is Danny’s mother. She also uses fictitious names... Read More

Author Richard Kownacki uses the term “eldster” to refer to people who defy society’s expectations for seniors by staying healthy and active or by functioning well in spite of disabilities. The famous artist Grandma Moses started... Read More

Rose Ludwig watched in horror as her intoxicated father brutally beat her mother. This weekly battering was in stark contrast to his gentle personality when sober. The mother displaced her anger by beating her children, especially Ludwig... Read More