Dear Patrons,
Since 1949, the month of May has been observed as Mental Health Month in the United States and many national organizations such as
NAMI
,
Mental Health America
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and other affiliates spotlight mental health to raise awareness about its importance and to stop the stigma associated with mental health conditions.
Thank you to Karen Gross of
NAMI High Country
for this wonderful partnership opportunity.
Take care everyone
Monica Caruso
County Librarian
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NAMI grant Read & Share: Book Review by Monica Caruso
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Marbles, Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me : A Graphic Memoir
, by Ellen Forney
This book is one of the Read and Shares that will be distributed in the community, and it is also available as an e-book in Overdrive. Ellen, the author, is also the illustrator, and her cartoon-like pictures speak volumes about how she is feeling throughout the book. The book depicts her early life as she is diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. It describes not only meeting regularly with her therapist and trying to find the right combination of medications, but also her frantic feelings about losing herself, especially her creativity and talents in the midst of being medicated. Ellen manages to keep her sense of humor through it all. I am not quite finished with the book but am rooting for Ellen. A very memorable, funny book that will likely not be forgotten.
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NC Department of Health and Human Services Helplines
The Hope4NC Helpline (1-855-587-3463)
This helpline "connects North Carolinians to additional mental health and resilience supports that help them cope and build resilience during times of crisis. Available 24 hours per day, seven days a week to speak to a live person."
The Hope4Healers Helpline (919-226-2002)
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This helpline "provides mental health and resilience supports for health care professionals, emergency medical specialists, first responders, other staff who work in health care settings and their families throughout the state who are experiencing stress from being on the front lines of the state’s COVID-19 response." Available 24 hours per day, seven days a week. Callers will be contacted quickly by a licensed mental health professional for follow-up.
NAMI High Country
President
Mike Tanner
invites you to explore other ways to give and receive support, communicate, and connect.
His message
includes a guidance and resource page, several online groups, and a help line. The web page also includes a menu of resources.
Center for Disease Control:
Specific guidance for a variety of audiences, this guide offers tactics for managing stress and for caring for ourselves and our communities. Written in clear and concise language with multiple languages available.
American Psychiatric Association Foundation's Center for Workplace Mental Health:
This article from the APA provides guidance for those telecommuting, aka working from home, due to the COVID-19 crisis. It addresses the unique stressors which may accompany a complete change in routine and the issue of social isolation. Includes guidance for employers and a list of vetted resources for further reading.
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We are adding new e-books as quickly as possible to keep up with our avid readers. Here is a spotlight on two recent additions; there are many more!
Jonathon Bridge has a corner office in a top-tier law firm, tailored suits and an impeccable pedigree. He has a fascinating wife, Adalia, a child on the way, and a string of pretty young interns as lovers on the side. He’s a man who’s going places. His world is our world: the same chaos and sprawl, haves and have-nots, men and women, skyscrapers and billboards. But it also exists alongside a vast, self-sustaining city-state called The Fortress where the indigenous inhabitants–the Vaik, a society run and populated exclusively by women–live in isolation.
When Adalia discovers his indiscretions and the ugly sexual violence pervading his firm, she agrees to continue their fractured marriage only on the condition that Jonathan voluntarily offers himself to The Fortress as a supplicant and stay there for a year. Jonathon’s arrival at The Fortress begins with a recitation of the conditions of his stay: He is forbidden to ask questions, to raise his hand in anger, and to refuse sex.
Jonathon is utterly unprepared for what will happen to him over the course of the year–not only to his body, but to his mind and his heart. This absorbing, confronting and moving novel asks questions about consent, power, love and fulfillment. It asks what it takes for a man to change, and whether change is possible without a radical reversal of the conditions that seem normal.
A Room with a View
is a romance and a social critique of Edwardian society. A young woman is chaperoned to Italy by her bitter aunt. There she meets an intriguing, but eccentric young man. Back in England she finds herself respectably engaged to a proper gentleman, but is thrown into a muddle when her young man from Italy moves to her English town. The novel celebrates the chaotic, unsure muddle of feelings over a kind of lifeless acceptance of the way things are.
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Highlight on Ancestry Library
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Good news for genealogical sleuths!
One of our most popular databases, Ancestry Library, is now available at home for library cardholders throughout May.
Discover your family’s story through this wealth of records, such as: family trees; birth, marriage, and death certificates; and census reports! To begin access to Ancestry Library:
-Click “Online Resources”
-Click “Ancestry Library”
-Enter in your library card number and pin (your pin is the last four digits of your phone number associated with your account).
-Happy digging!
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If you look at our web site, you will see that we offer eBooks, and many other wonderful online resources. For many of these, you will need a library card.
Don’t have a library card? We’ve got you covered.
(This last step is optional, but library card will expire after ‘stay at home’ order ends and you will need to bring your photo ID to the library to re-activate your card)
Our staff will contact you to let you know that your card has been created. Glad to have you on board!
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Watauga County Public Library
140 Queen Street
Boone, NC 28607
(828) 264-8784
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