MOODSTRControl Your Mood – Control Your Life

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Let's face it: life gives you plenty of reasons to get angry, sad, scared, and frustrated-and those feelings are okay. But sometimes it can feel like your emotions are taking over, spinning out of control with a mind of their own. To make matters worse, these overwhelming emotions might be interfering with school, causing trouble in your relationships, and preventing you from living a happier life.Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens is a workbook that can help. In this book, you'll find new ways of managing your feelings so that you'll be ready to handle anything life sends your way. Based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a type of therapy designed to help people who have a hard time handling their intense emotions, this workbook helps you learn the skills you need to ride the ups and downs of life with grace and confidence. This book offers easy techniques to help you: Stay calm and mindful in difficult situations Effectively manage out-of-control emotions Reduce the pain of intense emotions Get along with family and friends

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When you have bipolar disorder, it can sometimes seem like mood swings are keeping you from being the person you want to be. You may alternate between feelings of depression and overexcitement even though what you really want is to find a healthy balance between the two. This easy-to-use workbook presents a set of skills you can learn that will help you find that balance, become more independent, and stay focused on the big-picture goals that are most important to you.The Bipolar Workbook for Teens includes exercises and worksheets that will help you learn skills drawn from a special technique called dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). DBT skills can help people with bipolar disorder improve their relationships with friends and family and calm themselves when their emotions get really overwhelming.Working through this book will help you:Recognize and respond to your emotional triggers Create a crisis plan and find supportGet a handle on addictive behaviorMaintain friendships and get along with your family

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Show em' how you're feeling! Feeling hysterical? Or frustrated? Or maybe just overwhelmed! Now you can let everyone know with this one-of-a-kind item. Based on the best-selling "FEELINGS" poster, Mood Swings' thick board covers flip open to create a sturdy free-standing desk easel that allows for easy display anywhere. Just choose from 30 expressive faces drawn by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jim Borgman, and flip to the one that best represents your mood. Whether you're feeling disgusted, exhausted or just downright mischievous, Mood Swings is the perfect book for getting your point across.

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• Based on the How Are You Feeling Today? Poster, this flipchart helps kids understand and name their feelings.
• The thirty different feelings depicted (from Exhausted to Ecstatic, Embarrassed to Smug) are the perfect way to help kids and teens understand that what they feel affects how they think and act.
• The sturdy free-standing flipchart lets the world know your mood swings (includes one blank to create your own feeling!).

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Can you eat yourself into a good mood? For centuries, food has played an important role in health and healing, but what about feeling? Can what you eat really affect how you feel? It certainly can! In fact, certain foods can have a profound affect on the "feel good" chemicals produced by your brain so you really can eat yourself into a good mood. This book shows you how different nutrients affect your mood and gives you the low down on the top "mood boosting" foods as well as some delicious recipes you can use them in. These recipes are easy to make and include ingredients that are easily found in your grocery store. It's never been easier to feel good all day!

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Mood swings may be a part of your life, but the struggle to control them doesn’t have to dominate it. Together with the right course of medication, The Bipolar Workbook can put you back in control. Dr. Monica Ramirez Basco has assembled a versatile toolkit of proven self-help strategies designed to help you recognize the early warning signs of relapse, resist the seductive pull of manic episodes, and escape the paralysis of depression. Whether you’re new to the diagnosis (and not quite sure it fits) or want to enhance your current treatment, this simple program puts you in charge. Easy-to-follow guidelines and worksheets help you identify problem areas and minimize their impact, including ways to: *Reduce the recurrence and severity of your symptoms.*Slow things down and get the sleep you need when mania strikes.*Keep motivated and avoid procrastination when you’re depressed.*Fine-tune medical treatments to maximize your gains.*Rein in emotional reactions.*Stay focused and achieve your goals. Since every individual’s experience with bipolar disorder is unique, Dr. Basco encourages you to customize a plan that suits your needs. So take charge and make a better life.

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More than 100,000 copies later, this breakthrough program is more effective than ever-substantially revised and updated to include the author's latest clinical research. For the more than 160 million overweight Americans, dieting is a failure. Based on more than twenty years of proven clinical results, The Diet Cure's revolutionary approach curbs food cravings and restores the brain's mood and appetite chemistry in twenty-four hours. Beginning with her 8-Step Quick Symptom Questionnaire, celebrated nutritional psychotherapist Julia Ross helps readers identify their unique underlying biochemical imbalances and provides targeted strategies to correct those imbalances using nutritional supplements to jump-start the dietary overhaul. Readers then create their own safe, easy-to-follow plan to end low-calorie dieting and food obsessions for good.

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Let's face it: life gives you plenty of reasons to get angry, sad, scared, and frustrated&mdashand those feelings are okay. But sometimes it can feel like your emotions are taking over, spinning out of control with a mind of their own. To make matters worse, these overwhelming emotions might be interfering with school, causing trouble in your relationships, and preventing you from living a happier life.Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens is a workbook that can help. In this book, you'll find new ways of managing your feelings so that you'll be ready to handle anything life sends your way. Based in dialectical behavior therapy, a type of therapy designed to help people who have a hard time handling their intense emotions, this workbook helps you learn the skills you need to ride the ups and downs of life with grace and confidence.This book offers easy techniques to help you: Stay calm and mindful in difficult situations Effectively manage out-of-control emotions Reduce the pain of intense emotions Get along with family and friends

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Seventeen million people in the United States suffer from clinical depression, and more than fifty million people find themselves in prolonged emotional lows. Now, for every sufferer, there is hope. Not only are effective counseling methods available to treat depression, but also researchers have made great strides in understanding the chemical makeup of the brain. Mood Swings helps readers understand the causes of "bipolar-related disorders"-and find effective ways to treat the problem, recover the joy they've lost, and return to a far more normal, balanced perspective on life. The doctors discuss the extremes and the in-betweens of depression, and show how the highs and lows of uncontrollable mood swings trap the sufferer in a cycle of dysfunction.Mood Swings offers hope to everyone who suffers depression and helps those who love them understand and treat this troubling problem.