Disability Pride Month

"Este libro brinda de manera exhaustiva el primer paso para el cambio: informacion. Que son, que diferencia hay entre el estres y la ansiedad, entre la ansiedad y el miedo, cuando estamos frente a una fobia, como se manifiestan, cuando detectar una señal de alarma, como proceder ante los primeros sintomas, cuando pedir ayuda profesional."-- Provided by publisher.

"El antídoto contra los libros tradicionales sobre TDAH. Vives en un mundo que no fue diseñado para ti. Un mundo donde se espera que te quedes quieto, en silencio y concentrado. Debido a lo forma en que tu cerebro está configurado, a veces puedes sentir que está fracasando en la vida. Pero no está fracasando. Eres increíble. Los autores de este libro, Kim y Penn Holderness, tienen una misión: cambiar la forma en que pensamos sobre...

Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference.

"This is a moving cultural history of disability-and a powerful call to action to change how our medical system and society supports those with complex chronic conditions. From lupus to Lyme, invisible illness is often dismissed by everyone but the sufferers. Why does the medical establishment continually insist that, when symptoms are hard to explain, they are probably just in your head? Inspired by her work with long Covid patients, medical anthropologist...

Seventeen-year-olds Daisy, a talented violinist with cerebral palsy, and Noah, a great cellist with severe anxiety, plan to use the holiday concert to land a Julliard audition, but when they are chosen to play a duet, they worry their differences will sink their chances.

"In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen years old and autistic, must try to find her missing sister and also help her neglectful, undependable mother safely aboard a spaceship"-- Provided by publisher.

"A classic of psychology and eating disorders, now reissued with an important and perhaps controversial new afterword by the author, Wasted is New York Times bestselling author Marya Hornbacher's highly acclaimed memoir that chronicles her battle with anorexia and bulimia. Vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching, Wasted is the story of how Marya Hornbacher willingly embraced hunger, drugs, sex, and death--until a particularly horrifying bout with...

Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry, and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Law School, yet she has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life, and still has ongoing major episodes of the illness. The Center Cannot Hold is the eloquent, moving story of Elyn's life, from the first time that she heard voices speaking to...

Challenges cultural beliefs about anxiety from the perspectives of medical and spiritual leaders to explore how the condition needs to be viewed less as a burdensome affliction and more as a source of divine growth.

An engaging portrait of an autistic young woman who became, through timely mentoring and sheer force of will, one of America's most remarkable success stories.