Posted by shar on August 22, 2000, at 1:57:11
In reply to Re: Favorite Self Help books, posted by Oddzilla on August 21, 2000, at 9:10:12
Odd,
I read the coming plague also, and Wow! it is amazing what's out there; I just am stunned sometimes that we are still around!Somehow Plague didn't grab me in the same sense that Zone did. Maybe because it went over so many different things, it couldn't get much said about all the peripheral aspects of these things (the politics, etc.). In the Zone, with basically just one virus, I could follow it pretty well.
Interesting we have that in common.
Shar
> This is a very interesting thread.
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> My favorite practical self-help books I guess are
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> Feeling Good which is user friendly cognitive therapy.
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> Falling Apart:Avoiding coping with and Recovering from Stress Breakdown Practical coping strategies
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> The Depression Workbook:a Guide for living with Depression and Manic Depression
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> My favorite making some sense of it books would include
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> Denial of Death Becker
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> The Earthsea Trilogy Ursula leGuin
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> The Glass Bead Game and Journeyers to the East Hesse
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> Psalms Ecclesiastes and John from the Bible
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> Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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> I think one of the best books about what mental illness is really like for lots of people is Is There No Place on Earth for Me? Did anyone ever read an update about Sylvia Frumpkin? This book was published before the new antipsychotics came out and I wondered if they helped her and what happened to her if her parents died. I tried searching as best I could but couldn't find anything. (sorry, I'm getting off topic)
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> shar, I'm like you in that I try to avoid most "self-help" books these days. I read Hot Zone too and also
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> The Coming Plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance
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> In fact I read that one twice. I can't quite explain it's appeal to me. But maybe it is the change in perspective.
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> I'm going to look for some of your favorites. Thanks for the inspiration. (Cam I did a web search for existentialism yesterday after I read your list and read Metamorphosis on line! That wasn't on your list but I'm not sure if I'm up to full volumes yet.) I must be feeling better if I can think about something besides how I feel! Well how I do run on!
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> Thanks everyone
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> Oddzilla
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