Real Life Diaries
Real Life Diaries: Living with Endometriosis
Awarded as one of Book Authority’s best books of all time, Living with Endometriosis offers 15 personal perspectives from women who live with endometrial disease, a chronic, invisible disorder affecting millions of women around the world yet remains a challenge to diagnose, treat, and manage. The collection of stories share intimate experiences, helpful remedies and useful resources, and offer firsthand insight into managing life and finding hope beyond the clinical perspective.
- ISBN: 978 1944328528
- RELEASED: July 2017
- 6 x 9 inch | 302 pages
- Retail: $15.95
Real Life Diaries: Living with Gastroparesis
Gastroparesis is a chronic disorder affecting thousands yet remains a challenge to diagnose, treat, and manage. What therapies works best? Can a cure be found? Is life without pain and nausea possible? Will I ever eat normal food again?
In Living with Gastroparesis, 15 women invite readers inside the misunderstood world of gastroparesis and other motility disorders. Answering candid questions and confessing firsthand emotions, fears, and hopes, the collection of stories offers refreshing insight into the challenges of living with motility disorders from nonclinical perspectives, and highlights the unexpected ways we find hope, strength, and courage to continue the fight.
- ISBN: 978 1944328801
- RELEASED: Aug. 2017
- 6 x 9 inch | 512 pages
- Retail: $16.95
Real Life Diaries: Living with Mental Illness
What really happens when someone is diagnosed with mental illness? What therapy works best? Can a cure be found? Will life ever return to normal? These are just a few of the questions that run through the minds of ordinary people and their loved ones when faced with mental illness.
In Living with Mental Illness, twelve ordinary people open up and invite readers inside their very own soul-searching journey to give honest—and sometimes profound—answers to common questions. Confessing firsthand emotions, fears, and hopes, the collection of heartfelt stories offers refreshing insight into the diversity of mental illness from nonclinical perspectives, and highlights the unexpected ways we find strength, courage, and hope.
- ISBN: 978 1944328504
- RELEASED: June 2017
- 6 x 9 inch | 302 pages
- Retail: $15.95
Real Life Diaries: Living with Rheumatic Diseases
Rheumatoid arthritis. Lupus. Polymyalgia rheumatica. Psoriatic arthritis. These are but a few of the over 100 rheumatic diseases that cause the immune system to attack a person’s joints, muscles, bones and organs. The pain and inflammation make simple tasks such as walking, getting dressed, and even brushing hair and teeth sometimes impossible.
What triggers a flare and how are they managed? What treatments work best? What caused it, and will a cure ever be found? In Living with Rheumatic Diseases, eleven men and women invite readers inside their rheumatic lives to give honest answers to common questions. Confessing emotions, fears, and hopes, the heartfelt stories offer refreshing insight from nonclinical perspectives, and highlight the unexpected ways we find courage and hope while living with an autoimmune disorder.
- ISBN: 978 1944328696
- RELEASED: Oct 2017
- 6 x 9 inch | 354 pages
- Retail: $15.95
Real Life Diaries: Through the Eyes of an Eating Disordere
What really happens when someone develops an eating disorder? What therapies work best? Can a cure be found? Will life ever return to normal? These are just a few of the questions that run through the minds of ordinary people and their loved ones when faced with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder.
In Through the Eyes of an Eating Disorder, ordinary women open up and invite readers inside their own secretive world to give honest—and sometimes profound—answers to common questions about their journey. Confessing firsthand emotions, fears, and hopes, the collection of heartfelt stories offers refreshing insight into the diversity of eating disorders from nonclinical perspectives, and highlights the unexpected ways we find strength, courage, and hope.
- ISBN: 978 1944328276
- RELEASED: July 2016
- 6 x 9 inch | 294 pages
- Retail: $15.95
Real Life Diaries: Through the Eyes of D.I.D.
Fear. Secrecy. Pain. These are just a few of the emotions affecting those who live with dissociative identity disorder. What is it like to live with dissociated parts of oneself? Who controls the chaos? What triggers a switch? How do they feel about integration?
In Through the Eyes of DID, ordinary people who live with dissociative identity disorder invite readers inside their world and open up to give honest—and sometimes profound—answers to common questions. Confessing struggles, fears, and hopes, the collection of heartfelt stories offers firsthand insight into the diversity of DID from nonclinical perspectives, and highlights the unexpected ways ordinary people find strength, courage, and hope even when bound by societal stigma.
- ISBN: 978-1 944328 31 3
- RELEASED: Jan. 2017
- 6 x 9 inch | 346 pages
- Retail: $16.95
