Hearing Voices: How An Audiobook Brings a Story to Life

Hearing Voices: How An Audiobook Brings a Story to Life by @jhermankleiger #audiobook #books #audio #reading

Today, I’m not talking about hearing voices as in auditory hallucinations, but hearing one’s characters come to life in the spoken words of an audiobook. Characters are born in writers’ minds who imagine them in exquisite detail, envisioning their appearance, life histories, quirks and vulnerabilities, and, most importantly, how they speak. Creating interesting characters with…

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The Great Pretender: How To Outrun The Impostor At Your Heels

The Great Pretender: How To OutRun The Impostor At Your Heels by @JHermanKleiger #impostersyndrome #mentalhealth #psychology

In the quiet of the night, we hear the whisper inside our heads, telling us we’re nothing but…  “Frauds,” “Pretenders,” and “Impostors.”   At least 70% of us have heard this voice quietly proclaim that even our most heralded achievements are fraudulent. We live in fear that we’ll be found to be impostors who have fooled…

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Nurturing Understanding: An Exploration of Less Common Forms Of Mental Illness

Nurturing Understanding: An Exploration of Less Common Forms Of Mental Illness by @jhermankleiger #mentalillness #understanding #mentalhealth #psychology

Most people are familiar with common categories of mental health conditions. Symptom features of many of these conditions exist on a continuum ranging from the occasional occurrences in the “normal” population to more severe forms of diagnosable mental illnesses. For example, depression and anxiety are common emotional experiences familiar to most of us at different…

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Demystifying Psychosis: What It Is and How To Treat It

Demystifing Psychosis: What it is and How to Treat It by @jhermankleiger #psychosis #mentalhealth #psychology

When Nick Lotz began college, he felt increasingly awkward and out of place. He tried to make friends; and when they stopped returning his texts, he became consumed by anxiety and gripped by paralyzing self-consciousness which he just knew by their glances, everyone could see. So he withdrew, stopped attending classes, drank heavily, snorted Focalin…

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