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    Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of Living with Mental Illness

    By Karen Wolk Feinstein and Patrick J. Kennedy

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    Every year, one in four American adults suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder. In these true stories, writers and their loved ones struggle as their worlds are upended. What do you do when your father kills himself, or your mother is committed to a psych ward, or your daughter starts hearing voices telling her to harm herselfor when you yourself hear such voices? Addressing bipolar disorder, OCD, trichillomania, self-harm, PTSD, and other diagnoses, these stories vividly depict the difficulties and sorrowsand sometimes, too, the unexpected and surprising rewardsof living with mental illness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIn Fact Books
    Release dateJul 17, 2016
    ISBN9781937163266
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