Bøger om Illness

I suffer from bipolar disorder. This collection is a description of my life in the psychiatric system. It is a description of sorrow and of the darkest corners in a mental hospital. A description of failure, but also of small victories appearing from the cold earth, where they are least expected. I have painted pictures of a world viewed through glasses of a manic depressive. They are mood pictures from my life describing how my illness has shaped me to the person I am today. I have a good life today and I have learned to live with my illness. I just have to take care of myself. Sometimes more than I think necessary.

From the moment Anjee's husband is diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, the couple's life is catapulted onto a new trajectory. They are unwittingly forced onto a long and difficult journey. This period is filled with pain as well as love, and they experience all the intensity and beauty of living daily with life and death. In all the intimacy and tenderness of their relationship, it becomes starkly evident that they are each on a different path: as Gunnar faces his approaching death, Anjee faces a life of living without him.During this experience, Anjee searched in vain for a book for relatives to a person about to die. So she decided to write a book about living with a life-threatening illness, and about letting go. An unusually honest and open book about death, reflecting on and presenting all its aspects.

What do you do if your left leg is 1 inch shorter than your right leg and has only a fraction of the power of your right leg? According to Bjørn Rasmussen you train harder.Bjørn got polio (infantile paralysis) in 1941, when he was only a week old. The polio attack was so violent that the doctors asked for permission to let him die. "But my parents wanted me to live" says Bjørn. "Therefore I can write this book."This is a book about a boy who could barely walk up the stairs when he was in school, but later in life completed an Ironman - a triathlon - consisting of 3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and a marathon of 42 km.

Although this book deals with the story of Mike's mother dying of breast cancer it is still a life-affirming story, in which you will follow her mother's illness and death from a child's point of view. Although what we are most sure of in life is death, many adults find it difficult to relate to death lesser talk about death. As if that were not enough, then adults almost turn traumatic when they are going to tell children about serious illness and death. They dance like the proverbial cat around the warm porridge. Although this book deals with the story of Mike's mother dying of breast cancer when it is still a life-affirming story, which will follow her mother's illness and death from a child's hand. Although we are most sure of in life is death, so many people on our adults find it difficult to relate to it let alone talk about death. As if that were not enough, then adults almost turn traumatic when they are going to tell children about serious illness and death. They dance like the proverbial cat around the warm porridge.

8-year-old Beate is standing next to the lectern in the big auditorium at the hospital wearing only her underpants. The attending medical students sit and look at her frail body, while the professor points with a stick at her protruding chest. Body part by body part he explains about the classic signs of CF and concludes with Beate’s ’drumstick fingers’. She quietly clenches the hand he does not touch with a pointer, into a fist.Today Beate Wallentin is 49 years old. She was born with cystic fibrosis. neither doctors nor her relatives expected her to live this long, to enjoy the good life, to take an education and eventually get a job at SAS as a stewardess. Beate has constantly fought against being seen as an appendage to her weak lungs – she is not an accessory to her illness – but a whole person – and she has found her own way to defy the daily challenges.a life with a chronic disease has many mental challenges. This book gives you the tools to create a dynamic of balance in your family or your relationships, despite illness. The tools may provide you with a fresh view of addiction, guilt, loneliness, the victim role, and what it means to find the courage to love another human being.