Love Disorder

The FULL TEXT of Sam Vaknin's classic, groundbreaking BIBLE of NARCISSISM and NARCISSISTIC ABUSE, now in its 10th edition. Tips and advice as well as the most complete clinical background. Narcissistic Personality Disorder and its effects on the narcissist, the psychopath and their nearest and dearest in a variety of settings: the family, workplace, in Church, the community, law enforcement, and politics. 100 frequently asked questions and two essays - a total of 730 pages! Reflects the NEW criteria in the recent fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM 5-TR). You are not...

Adults with ADHD can be successful, achieve their goals, and live out big dreams—and you can help. You can set boundaries to manage your own emotional and financial stress, too. In When an Adult You Love Has ADHD you will learn practical steps for helping your loved one accept and manage their disorder, and pursue paths in life where ADHD might not pose such a big problem. Dr. Barkley shows how to guide your loved one toward the right treatment.

Dr. Robert Glover has dubbed the "Nice Guy Syndrome" trying too hard to please others while neglecting one's own needs, thus causing unhappiness and resentfulness. It's no wonder that unfulfilled Nice Guys lash out in frustration at their loved ones, claims Dr. Glover.

Anger, frustration, and loneliness are the most destructive diseases on the planet - by far - and we are not adequately addressing their causes and solutions. Finally, in Real Love and Post-Childhood Stress Disorder, we can learn about why we're angry and lonely, along with the real reasons we have relationship problems, and we can learn to actually eliminate these conditions.

Life with a partner whose neurotype is different than yours is filled with moments that are surprising, unique, and sometimes challenging. If one of you is on the autism spectrum and the other is neurotypical, this Aspergers book is a helpful and inclusive guide to understanding the nature of your relationship and navigating its particular obstacles - while keeping your love for each other at the center of everything.

Do your emotions flip from calm to chaos in seconds? Do you find yourself loving someone desperately, then pushing them away without meaning to? Are you constantly told you're “too much”—too intense, too angry, too sensitive, too empty? This book doesn’t offer a cure. It’s not a program. It won’t tell you to “think positive” or “just breathe.”

El apego ansioso puede ensombrecer muchas relaciones, siendo a menudo la causa principal de los problemas de pareja. Por el contrario, las relaciones prósperas y duraderas se caracterizan por la ausencia de rasgos de apego ansioso. Este libro te ayudará a comprender el origen de tu estilo de apego ansioso, a superarlo recuperando la confianza en ti mismo con consejos prácticos y aplicables que puedes empezar a implementar hoy mismo y apreciar los progresos en ti y en tus relaciones.

Do you find it difficult to maintain a successful relationship with your partner? Despite your best efforts, does your romantic relationship seem stuck or constantly fluctuating? Are you confused by your partner's hot and cold behaviors, leaving you worried about the future of your relationship? Our partners' childhood experiences play a huge role in shaping their adult relationships. The bonds they formed as children with their caregivers profoundly affect how they react to intimacy and interact with you in your relationship. Fearful avoidant attachment is a pattern of behavior ...

Are you ready to heal from past traumas, manage PTSD, and break free from negative thinking? Your Somatic Therapy Toolbox is a transformative guide designed to help adults of all ages harness the power of somatic therapy to promote emotional and physical healing. This book is for everyone, regardless of your past experiences or current struggles. This workbook is not just a theoretical guide. It combines mindfulness, body-based practices, and self-compassion to take you on a practical journey to reconnect with your body and mind. It offers tools that you can use in your daily life to ...

Jenni Schaefer and Ed (eating disorder) are no longer on speaking terms, not even in her most difficult moments. In her best seller Life Without Ed, Jenni learned to treat her eating disorder as a relationship, not a condition - enabling her to break up with Ed once and for all. In Goodbye Ed, Hello Me Jenni shows you that being fully recovered is not just about breaking free from destructive behaviors with food and having a healthy relationship with your body; it also means finding joy and peace in your life.

This is a straightforward, non-judgemental approach to BPD. Borderlines will provide you with understanding and hope for the future.

PTLD - Post Traumatic Love Disorder, when your heart is still replaying pain. The constant reminder of the last time love left you hanging in the wind. Liberty and Kiss know this all too well. After dealing with cheating, controlling, mama’s boys’, Liberty has vowed to never make another man her sun, moon and stars. However, it’s a promise she won’t be able to keep when she meets her new neighbor. Handsome, direct and confident, Liberty has to put on her big girl panties to handle him. Will she wear them proudly or cower under the pressure of having to trust again? Kiss is just as ...

Bible Bedtime Stories for Adults is your invitation to step away from stress and enter the calm presence of God. These soothing, faith-filled stories are written to quiet your mind, comfort your heart, and help you drift off to sleep with peace and assurance. Instead of ending your day with anxiety, you’ll close your eyes surrounded by the promises of Scripture.

When Kurt Cobain died by his own hand in April 1994, it was an act of will that typified his short, angry, inspired life. Veteran music journalist Charles R. Cross fuses his intimate knowledge of the Seattle music scene with his deep compassion for his subject in this extraordinary story of artistic brilliance and the pain that extinguished it.

This book began as an act of witness—an attempt to capture what love looks like when it stretches beyond understanding, beyond diagnosis, beyond the neat definitions that so often fail real life. For more than half a century, Claire and Steven lived inside a marriage shaped by difference. What they did not know, for most of those years, was that Steven was on the autism spectrum—Autism Spectrum Disorder, Level 1. The late diagnosis reframed everything: the confusion, the distance, the loneliness, the love that endured anyway. This story is not a fairy tale. It does not promise perfect ...

We humans all need to have a secure emotional connection. For we women, this is the search for the anchor for our personal development as an adult. Here, we assume that all people around us are developing into maturity...In reality, there are people who don’t know how to process their own emotions and use their partner’s emotions to regulate themselves. They are people emotionally stuck in childhood issues of such severity that they can’t grow up and thus will engage in relations of power and control. For young women who are still learning the ropes of sexual connection, it can be ...

Named a Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. A romantic love triangle that will appeal to fans of Girl in Pieces and Thinspo--this compelling story explores insecurity and the power of words to hurt and to heal. When tall, gorgeous Brody asks Olivia to prom, she’s ecstatic—until he suggests she use the next two months to lose some weight. But how thin is thin enough? What starts as a few skipped meals spirals into a dangerous obsession—hours spent scrolling pro-ana and thinspo forums, tracking calories like a lifeline, and watching the number on the scale plummet. The ...

When bipolar disorder afflicts the person you love, you suffer too. How have other couples learned to manage the relationship strains caused by this illness? What can you do to provide your partner with truly helpful nurturance and support? No one cares more deeply about these questions than Dr. Cynthia Last, a highly regarded therapist/researcher who also has bipolar disorder.

David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his generation, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallace’s tormented, anguished, and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist as he fights off depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, Infinite Jest.

A riveting memoir and a fascinating investigation of the history, uses, and controversies behind lithium, an essential medication for millions of people struggling with bipolar disorder. It began in Los Angeles in 1993, when Jaime Lowe was just sixteen. She stopped sleeping and eating, and...