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July 22, 2018
HOW TO SURVIVE BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER (BPD) audiobook
Narrator’s Note on HOW TO SURVIVE BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER (BPD) audiobook
Beloved Listeners!
Thanks for taking the time to listen to another one of Stephanie’s incredibly touching books on mental illness!
I truly am honored to have narrated so many of her inspiring pieces and love being a part of spreading the word about mental illness.
For those who suffer from BPD or other mental illnesses, God bless you and may you get the help you need and recover from it which you truly can using Stephanie’s incredible example and guidance.
How amazing for all of us to understand more about mental illness from her. I have gained so much insight and empathy into the challenges that people with mental illness face and I truly hope with Stephanie’s help we can spread understanding to decrease the ugly stigma that exists surrounding mental health.
Love to you all!
Holly Holt
Check out all my books here... www.amazon.com/author/allenstephanie
Beloved Listeners!
Thanks for taking the time to listen to another one of Stephanie’s incredibly touching books on mental illness!
I truly am honored to have narrated so many of her inspiring pieces and love being a part of spreading the word about mental illness.
For those who suffer from BPD or other mental illnesses, God bless you and may you get the help you need and recover from it which you truly can using Stephanie’s incredible example and guidance.
How amazing for all of us to understand more about mental illness from her. I have gained so much insight and empathy into the challenges that people with mental illness face and I truly hope with Stephanie’s help we can spread understanding to decrease the ugly stigma that exists surrounding mental health.
Love to you all!
Holly Holt
Check out all my books here... www.amazon.com/author/allenstephanie
July 13, 2018
FREE EBOOK of How to Survive Depression
Get your free ebook copy of How to Survive Depression now!!! Hurry this deal ends July 17th 2018!
Also available are:
My Mental Madness Memoir
How to Survive Bipolar Disorder
How to Survive Schizophrenia
How to Survive Anxiety
How to Survive Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
All books are available in ebook, paperback, and audiobook versions!
Stephanie Anne Allen
Also available are:
My Mental Madness Memoir
How to Survive Bipolar Disorder
How to Survive Schizophrenia
How to Survive Anxiety
How to Survive Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
All books are available in ebook, paperback, and audiobook versions!
Stephanie Anne Allen
June 21, 2018
HOW TO SURVIVE BPD
Friends, I'd like to introduce my 6th book to the GoodReads' world! How to Survive Borderline Personality Disorder offers insight and inspiration. The book contains the following:
*Introduction
*BPD defined
*Symptoms
*Causes
*My own personal struggle
*How to cope
*Recovery and outcome
*Inspirational quotes
*Author's note
I have also written:
*My Mental Madness Memoir
*How to Survive Depression
*How to Survive Bipolar Disorder
*How to Survive Schizophrenia
*How to Survive Anxiety
Please check out my author page!
www.amazon.com/author/allenstephanie
Also take a peek at my mental health blog!
www.stephanieanneallen.blogspot.com
*Introduction
*BPD defined
*Symptoms
*Causes
*My own personal struggle
*How to cope
*Recovery and outcome
*Inspirational quotes
*Author's note
I have also written:
*My Mental Madness Memoir
*How to Survive Depression
*How to Survive Bipolar Disorder
*How to Survive Schizophrenia
*How to Survive Anxiety
Please check out my author page!
www.amazon.com/author/allenstephanie
Also take a peek at my mental health blog!
www.stephanieanneallen.blogspot.com
June 8, 2018
EMERGING AUTHOR UPDATE!
Hello Friends,
I now have 5 books out on overcoming mental illness. One is a memoir & four are self help books. You may be wondering why you should read my books over other authors' on this topic. Well, not only do I have professional experience, I also have extensive personal experience. I have a BA in clinical psychology, I am a former case manager for the mentally ill, and I have 25 years of personal experience to top it all off!! Not only do you get the knowledge you need when you read my books, but you get compassion and empathy also! So, please start with My Mental Madness Memoir, and then read any of the How to Survive Books that may interest you!
www.amazon.com/author/allenstephanie
I now have 5 books out on overcoming mental illness. One is a memoir & four are self help books. You may be wondering why you should read my books over other authors' on this topic. Well, not only do I have professional experience, I also have extensive personal experience. I have a BA in clinical psychology, I am a former case manager for the mentally ill, and I have 25 years of personal experience to top it all off!! Not only do you get the knowledge you need when you read my books, but you get compassion and empathy also! So, please start with My Mental Madness Memoir, and then read any of the How to Survive Books that may interest you!
www.amazon.com/author/allenstephanie
April 21, 2018
UPDATE on AUDIOBOOK!
How to Survive Bipolar Disorder is now available as an audiobook!!! Narrator Holly Holt does an amazing job bringing this incredibly informative and inspiring book to life. As a team the author and narrator will keep the listener engaged from the very beginning to the very end!
How to Survive Bipolar Disorder: Book #2 in How to Survive Series
How to Survive Bipolar Disorder: Book #2 in How to Survive Series
March 30, 2018
The Never Ending UPS and DOWNS
Blurb from How to Survive Bipolar Disorder
by Stephanie Anne Allen
You can recover from bipolar disorder. I am living proof. I want to be your role model and your example. I want to help you find what you need to conquer this illness. And I am about to provide you with tips I have personally learned and used to overcome my great obstacle of bipolar disorder. I am not going to quote you textbooks or literary magazines. I am giving you my insight into this illness and a look at what has helped me in my journey of resilience and recovery.
How to Survive Bipolar Disorder: Book #2 in How to Survive Series
by Stephanie Anne Allen
You can recover from bipolar disorder. I am living proof. I want to be your role model and your example. I want to help you find what you need to conquer this illness. And I am about to provide you with tips I have personally learned and used to overcome my great obstacle of bipolar disorder. I am not going to quote you textbooks or literary magazines. I am giving you my insight into this illness and a look at what has helped me in my journey of resilience and recovery.
How to Survive Bipolar Disorder: Book #2 in How to Survive Series
Living in Darkness really sucks!
Blurb from How to Survive Depression
by Stephanie Anne Allen
“How to Survive—Depression” is the first book in the “How to Survive Series”. This is a collection of books that I am creating to educate, motivate, and bring inspiration to those who are going through difficult things, and times, in their lives.
I hope that these books will inspire people to want to conquer their fears and their problems. I want to offer encouragement and help people realize they are not alone in their battles. And they can come through, just like others have. But not only can they pull through their conflicts, but they will come out on the other side a much better person—a person who has gained strength and wisdom and has acquired a much better attitude and overlook on life.
Life is a beautiful thing and sometimes we can’t see that because our hardships blind us from all the splendor that life has to offer. Sometimes we just want to sit back, stop fighting, and give up. But I am writing this series to reassure you that life does get better. And when you are rock bottom, the only way for it to go is up!
In this series, I will touch on different issues, and show you how to survive each of them in a very unique way. I will give you self-help techniques that I have used or helped others use. These techniques have been proven to work for me and others, because we put in the effort. We worked hard on self-transformation and acceptance. We learned to love ourselves enough to fight, to get beyond our problems. And self-love my friends is where it all begins!
Please remember this common statement. “God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” This is the serenity prayer by Reinhold Neibuhr. And even if you don’t believe in God, it still applies to you. You can still turn your life around. You can still change if you choose to do so.
The sad truth is that with life there is also inevitable suffering. There is no way around that. Some people believe suffering comes from the devil, others even believe it comes from God. I don’t think anyone really knows the source. But you do not need to know where your pain is coming from to do something about it.
I have suffered greatly in my own life from much heartache, emotional pain, trauma, chaos, etc. I have been at the point where most people do not survive! The statistics were very much in favor of me ending my own life. But I didn’t succeed at terminating it. I took the battle head on. This time I wasn’t going to run away from the fight for my life. The good news is that I won the war within my own mind! And I came out of it a much better person. I gained strength. I acquired insight and wisdom. And now I am very much able to empathize completely with others who are going through similar problems.
Would I take back all that my past entailed? No. There should not be any regrets and remorse in this life. Everything happens for a reason. And every human being has a purpose on this Earth. We should just strive each and every day to become a better person than we were the day before.
Suffering is just a part of life. And you are in control of what you chose to do with that suffering. Do you let it break you or do you let it make you? I am hoping you chose the second option.
And so, I present this series to you. Let it bring you hope, encouragement, and inspiration. And please “spread the love” by passing on this book to someone you know who could really use a boost in life!
How to Survive Depression: Book #1 in How to Survive Series
by Stephanie Anne Allen
“How to Survive—Depression” is the first book in the “How to Survive Series”. This is a collection of books that I am creating to educate, motivate, and bring inspiration to those who are going through difficult things, and times, in their lives.
I hope that these books will inspire people to want to conquer their fears and their problems. I want to offer encouragement and help people realize they are not alone in their battles. And they can come through, just like others have. But not only can they pull through their conflicts, but they will come out on the other side a much better person—a person who has gained strength and wisdom and has acquired a much better attitude and overlook on life.
Life is a beautiful thing and sometimes we can’t see that because our hardships blind us from all the splendor that life has to offer. Sometimes we just want to sit back, stop fighting, and give up. But I am writing this series to reassure you that life does get better. And when you are rock bottom, the only way for it to go is up!
In this series, I will touch on different issues, and show you how to survive each of them in a very unique way. I will give you self-help techniques that I have used or helped others use. These techniques have been proven to work for me and others, because we put in the effort. We worked hard on self-transformation and acceptance. We learned to love ourselves enough to fight, to get beyond our problems. And self-love my friends is where it all begins!
Please remember this common statement. “God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” This is the serenity prayer by Reinhold Neibuhr. And even if you don’t believe in God, it still applies to you. You can still turn your life around. You can still change if you choose to do so.
The sad truth is that with life there is also inevitable suffering. There is no way around that. Some people believe suffering comes from the devil, others even believe it comes from God. I don’t think anyone really knows the source. But you do not need to know where your pain is coming from to do something about it.
I have suffered greatly in my own life from much heartache, emotional pain, trauma, chaos, etc. I have been at the point where most people do not survive! The statistics were very much in favor of me ending my own life. But I didn’t succeed at terminating it. I took the battle head on. This time I wasn’t going to run away from the fight for my life. The good news is that I won the war within my own mind! And I came out of it a much better person. I gained strength. I acquired insight and wisdom. And now I am very much able to empathize completely with others who are going through similar problems.
Would I take back all that my past entailed? No. There should not be any regrets and remorse in this life. Everything happens for a reason. And every human being has a purpose on this Earth. We should just strive each and every day to become a better person than we were the day before.
Suffering is just a part of life. And you are in control of what you chose to do with that suffering. Do you let it break you or do you let it make you? I am hoping you chose the second option.
And so, I present this series to you. Let it bring you hope, encouragement, and inspiration. And please “spread the love” by passing on this book to someone you know who could really use a boost in life!
How to Survive Depression: Book #1 in How to Survive Series
A TRUE EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER!
Blurb from
MY MENTAL MADNESS MEMOIR
by Stephanie Anne Allen
This book is dedicated to all those individuals inflicted with mental illness, the people in their lives, and to all the mental health care providers that treat them. It is intended not only for entertainment purposes, but for informative ones, as well.
Anyone, who believes and literally can justify in his or her mind that he or she is the next Jesus Christ, is obviously suffering from a major delusion. But probably he or she is having an all-out severe psychotic break. A person having this belief would be defined by ignorant people as being “crazy”. But I want to stress, that I do not believe it is appropriate to place labels on the mentally ill, and bring undo judgment upon them. They are people too. They are people who have had to endure intense scrutiny over having such an illness, that is in no way their faults.
That was me. I was the one who believed that I was, what my voices called, “the second-coming of Christ.” I thought I was all powerful. I assumed I had psychic and telekinetic powers. My delusional state was even so extreme that I believed I had the authority to end the world, at any time, using my own commands and the power I believed I shared with the Almighty God.
My Mental Madness Memoir: The Provocative True Journey Through My Struggles with Mental Illness
MY MENTAL MADNESS MEMOIR
by Stephanie Anne Allen
This book is dedicated to all those individuals inflicted with mental illness, the people in their lives, and to all the mental health care providers that treat them. It is intended not only for entertainment purposes, but for informative ones, as well.
Anyone, who believes and literally can justify in his or her mind that he or she is the next Jesus Christ, is obviously suffering from a major delusion. But probably he or she is having an all-out severe psychotic break. A person having this belief would be defined by ignorant people as being “crazy”. But I want to stress, that I do not believe it is appropriate to place labels on the mentally ill, and bring undo judgment upon them. They are people too. They are people who have had to endure intense scrutiny over having such an illness, that is in no way their faults.
That was me. I was the one who believed that I was, what my voices called, “the second-coming of Christ.” I thought I was all powerful. I assumed I had psychic and telekinetic powers. My delusional state was even so extreme that I believed I had the authority to end the world, at any time, using my own commands and the power I believed I shared with the Almighty God.
My Mental Madness Memoir: The Provocative True Journey Through My Struggles with Mental Illness
2 EXCITING UPDATES!
How to Survive Bipolar Disorder will soon be available as an audiobook! And How to Survive Schizophrenia will soon be out in ebook & paperback editions!
www.amazon.com/author/allenstephanie
www.amazon.com/author/allenstephanie
March 17, 2018
INSIGHT & INSPIRATION into INSANITY
Mental illness and insanity are not the same. While mental illness affects our moods and thoughts, insanity is a condition in which a person (who may or may not have mental illness) is not touch with reality. They are not in control of their actions and their behaviors can become “socially unacceptable” or even “criminal” without the insane person’s awareness. A person with mental illness may never experience “true insanity”. Just as a person who is considered insane may have no history of mental illness. But there are a handful of people who experience both insanity and mental illness.
A mentally ill person may experience symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations, but this is not “true” insanity. True insanity is when a people loses “touch with reality” and has absolutely no awareness of what is happening around them, and no control over their behaviors. These insane people may commit crimes, and they will not even be knowledgeable of what they had done and will certainly have no awareness while committing the crime.
We have seen it all over the news lately with people blaming crimes on mental illness. No, these crimes do not occur because someone has a mental illness. Some of the crimes may occur as a result of actually insanity, but that is rare. Most of these crimes are committed by people who have full use of their faculties. They are committed by people who are truly criminal and no regard for society, decency, and morality.
There are only a few actual people who commit crimes due to insanity! These are good people who lost touch with reality and had no idea what was going on around them. These are decent, kind, and respectable people who have broken the law, because they were “insane” and had no understanding, whatsoever, of what they were doing. People in this category often receive a Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity ruling during their criminal trials. They are then committed to a state forensic hospital for a term of incarceration.
Is there hope for those who suffer from insanity? Can we “reform” them back into productive members of society? Are they capable of fully recovering? Yes, it is certainly possible, as I myself am an example. I fought the hard battle with bravery and persistence. I emerged from this insanity, and I feel that I have become a much better person due to all the adversity that I had endured.
I was successfully treated for my severe mental illness and insanity. I put into use my “survival skills” and I transformed what was a “bad situation” into one that is hopeful and offers inspiration to others in similar situations. I went through hell, in order for me, to become the person I am today. I was never a bad or evil person at all, but going through this hell helped change me into a much better person than I ever was. I gained insight. I gained strength, courage, and faith. I became a much more empathic and compassionate person. I became grateful for things I had always taken for granted. Using coping skills, I was able to emerge from my disturbing world and find the light once again.
It is possible to recover from both insanity and mental illness. It is doable. And I promise you that it will be worth it in the end. Each life was created for a purpose, and you will find yours. Mine was to spread love and inspiration to all who suffer from mental illness and insanity. I embrace this as my reason to exist in this very world. And I hope that you shall pull through your problems and reach out and take control of your world, too!
Stephanie Anne Allen
A mentally ill person may experience symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations, but this is not “true” insanity. True insanity is when a people loses “touch with reality” and has absolutely no awareness of what is happening around them, and no control over their behaviors. These insane people may commit crimes, and they will not even be knowledgeable of what they had done and will certainly have no awareness while committing the crime.
We have seen it all over the news lately with people blaming crimes on mental illness. No, these crimes do not occur because someone has a mental illness. Some of the crimes may occur as a result of actually insanity, but that is rare. Most of these crimes are committed by people who have full use of their faculties. They are committed by people who are truly criminal and no regard for society, decency, and morality.
There are only a few actual people who commit crimes due to insanity! These are good people who lost touch with reality and had no idea what was going on around them. These are decent, kind, and respectable people who have broken the law, because they were “insane” and had no understanding, whatsoever, of what they were doing. People in this category often receive a Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity ruling during their criminal trials. They are then committed to a state forensic hospital for a term of incarceration.
Is there hope for those who suffer from insanity? Can we “reform” them back into productive members of society? Are they capable of fully recovering? Yes, it is certainly possible, as I myself am an example. I fought the hard battle with bravery and persistence. I emerged from this insanity, and I feel that I have become a much better person due to all the adversity that I had endured.
I was successfully treated for my severe mental illness and insanity. I put into use my “survival skills” and I transformed what was a “bad situation” into one that is hopeful and offers inspiration to others in similar situations. I went through hell, in order for me, to become the person I am today. I was never a bad or evil person at all, but going through this hell helped change me into a much better person than I ever was. I gained insight. I gained strength, courage, and faith. I became a much more empathic and compassionate person. I became grateful for things I had always taken for granted. Using coping skills, I was able to emerge from my disturbing world and find the light once again.
It is possible to recover from both insanity and mental illness. It is doable. And I promise you that it will be worth it in the end. Each life was created for a purpose, and you will find yours. Mine was to spread love and inspiration to all who suffer from mental illness and insanity. I embrace this as my reason to exist in this very world. And I hope that you shall pull through your problems and reach out and take control of your world, too!
Stephanie Anne Allen
