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This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to feel confident in discussing herpes and enjoy your love life in the context of sexual relationships. Genital herpes as a diagnosis is not a death sentence, but managing and coping with herpes will be an ongoing part of your life. Herpes is no small matter. One in five adults is estimated to have genital herpes, according to the American Social Health Association, and 80% are not aware they contracted the disease.

Learn how to use the power of your mind to forget about pain and disappointment. In order to change your mind set and let the past stay where it belongs, you need to do some exercises. Imagine your brain is like a muscle. If you want to improve and change it, you need to exercise it. Follow these easy steps to help you get over any traumas or painful events from the past.

As defined in psychoanalysis & psychotherapy, gaslighting is the act of trying "to cause another individual to doubt his/her own judgments and perceptions". The name is inspired by a famous Ingrid Bergman movie in which she is slowly driven insane by her husband. A common method of gaslighting is known as the "double-whammy", in which the gaslighter puts down the victim, waits for the victim's response, and then attacks the victim's judgment, perspective or questioning of the original attack.

This book contains proven steps and strategies to help you tackle binge eating and bulimia nervosa. It will also help you to develop a healthier relationship with food. Just like binge eaters, sufferers of bulimia nervosa go to great lengths to make up for overeating. Prolonged fasting, excessive exercising, self-induced vomiting, and taking unnecessary laxatives are all symptoms of the illness. Bulimia, more specifically known as bulimia nervosa, is an eating disorder that can if not addressed cause serious damage to the body and mind.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to successfully and comfortably live with someone with a mental illness in your home. Mental illness is stated as any of the various disorders in which a person’s thoughts, emotions, or behavior are so abnormal as to cause suffering to himself, herself, or other people or any other of the various disorders or diseases characterized by abnormal patterns of thought and behavior. So just talk to the person. You must learn about the illness if the person you care for has been given a diagnosis. This is one of the ways that can help you understand how it affects them and can help you feel more confident caring for them.

Most people know what anger is, and we've all felt it, whether as a fleeting annoyance or in full rage. Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, and human emotion. But when it gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problems - problems at work, in your personal relationships, and in the overall quality of your life. And it can makes you feel as though you're at the mercy of an unpredictable and powerful emotion.

Millions of Americans live with various types of mental illness and mental health problems. Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions - disorders that affect your mood; thinking, and behavior. Examples of mental illness include depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and addictive behaviors.

Overcoming jealousy is like changing any emotional reaction or behavior. It begins with awareness. Awareness allows you to see that the projected stories in your mind are not true. When you have this clarity, you no longer react to the scenarios that your mind imagines. Jealousy and anger are emotional reactions to believing scenarios in your mind that are not true.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to be mindful to help improve your well-being and live a better life. What is this thing called mindfulness... Has it been around for thousands of years... How can it help me? This book will answer these questions. Mindfulness is a time-honored way of improving your well-being, happiness and sense of fulfillment. It has been shown to reduce depression, anxiety, substance abuse and even pain.

Hypersexuality behavior is one of the more common aspects of an individual suffering from bipolar disorder, and causes the individual to continuously look to satisfy his or her sexual appetite. The condition can be a cause for tremendous amount of worry among loved ones of the individual that may fear for the person physical as we as sexual health. I've long said that society discusses human sexuality less in the bipolar disorder community.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to recognize substance abuse and addiction. Drugs are classified as legal and illegal. Medicines, cigarettes, and alcohol are considered legal drugs. But excessive drinking and smoking by adults, and by teenagers, also poses a threat for long addiction. Medicines that are taken with or without proper prescription are detrimental as well.

The pulp, or the fiber, is also known as roughage or bulk. These are the parts of the fruits/vegetables that your juicer retains behind when it separates the juices from the plant foods. There are two categories of fiber - soluble and insoluble fiber. Your body needs both of these. When consumed, these fibers do not get digested but pass through your digestive system unchanged. On its way to being eliminated from your body, it adds bulk to your stool and softens it, preventing constipation.

This book contains strategies on how to maintain your relationship and possibly keep your man from cheating. In marriages and committed relationships, most of us expect the obvious: commitment. Unfortunately, after vowing to forsake all others, many people cheat. Countless studies and real life experience tell us that men are more likely to cheat than women. That's no big secret! There are some things in life that you aren't sure you want to know.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to overcome rejection. What is rejection? Why is it so important that we don't get rejected? Many of us will go through our daily lives avoiding rejection because, simply put, it makes us feel bad. Who wants to be rejected, anyway? Most of us have unhealthy mind frames when it comes to dealing with rejection. Most often we avoid it at all costs.

Although at first it may seem simple to define what constitutes bullying behavior, it does not always fit the classic stereotype of the older boy beating up his smaller classmate. Bullying is a multifaceted behavior that shifts with the situation, the people involved, the time and place. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention defines bullying as "unwanted, aggressive behavior among school-aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to overcome codependency. Most people who are codependent are constantly in an emotional state of fear, anxiety, and pain or feel like they're losing their way of thinking.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to learn to forgive. Anger is a human emotion. It is strongly linked to rage, and all of us have experienced it in some form since we were children. We are taught as children that anger and rage are not okay, and so we learn very early on to hide our anger and our rage. Anger is also linked to fear. It is often a fear response that triggers an angry outburst, and is part of the fight or flight response.

Shoplifting addiction is a kind of mental illness where a person feels compelled to steal. Most of the time, a person suffering from kleptomania does this because it gives him or her thrills knowing that they got away with it and got something for free. Some feel that they need this kind of excitement in order to get them through the day. Others shoplift because they feel that they are entitled to it because their life has been hard, they seem to not let up from stress....

You're about to discover how to recognize the signs of depression in teens and what treatment will help them to combat their symptoms. Depression can cause a person to function at a low level, especially when the person is being affected by psychological depression that can lead to being sad and inactive, having difficulty in thinking, and not being able to concentrate; when the person shows a significant increase or decrease in appetite and spends a lot of time sleeping and feeling hopeless; and sometimes suicidal tendencies are all associated with depression.

This book contains the framework to understanding suicide, methods on suicide prevention, and causes of suicide. Suicide is not a new phenomenon. Strikingly, accounts of suicide across the last millennium catalogue the same factors associated with suicide as those revealed by modern scientific study in western cultures; serious mental illness, alcohol and substance abuse, co-morbidity, childhood abuse, loss of a love one, fear of humiliation, and economic dislocation and insecurity.