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Table of Contents:

• Mental health services and me : what worked, and what didn't / Janet Christmas
• Coping with depression : positive advice for Aspies / Debbie Allen
• My fur-lined bucket : alternative methods of dealing with mental health issues / E. Veronica Bliss
• This Aspie life : the undiagnosed Aspie experience / 8ball
• A colourful rainbow : embracing autism as a neurological difference, rather than a mental health disorder / Melanie Smith
• Getting the right diagnosis, and its impact on mental health : is this the best the NHS can do? / Cornish
• Positive mental attitude: coping with setbacks, knowing your own strengths, and finding happiness any way you can / Dean Worton
• "It's all in your head" : the dangers of misdiagnosis / Neil Shepherd
• A fairytale life it isn't (AKA Chapter 9) : alcohol, self-harm, and the benefits of exercise / Alexandra Brown
• "Getting my life back" : a mother's struggle to get mental health services for herself and her son / Anne Henderson
• A week in the life of : strategies for maintaining mental health as an Aspie / Steve Jarvis
• My plastic bubble : dealing with depression, anxiety, and low self-confidence / Wendy Lim
• The art of being content : Asperger syndrome, buddhism, and me / Chris Mitchell
• A journey looking for answers about the way I am / Anthony Sclafani
• A label that fits : diagnoses, self-harm, and mental health / Natasha Goldthorpe
• Through the looking glass into Lynette land : making humour work / Lynette Marshall
• Mental health and the workplace : dealing with criticism, coping with stress, and taking control of your environment / Christopher Wilson.

Contributors:

Beardon, Luke

Worton, Dean

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Adults speak out about Asperger syndrome series

Subjects:

Asperger's syndrome — Patients — Biography

Asperger's syndrome — Patients

Asperger's syndrome

Genres:

Biographies

Physical Description:

192 pages ; 23 cm.

Call Numbers:

RC553.A88 A797 2011

ISBNs:

9781849051521 (alk. paper)
1849051526 (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2010041573

OCLC Numbers:

669122327