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Pills, Skills, and Will

by Stephen, Jr. Luce
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781647507428
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Austin Macauley
  • Publisher Imprint: Austin Macauley
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 184
  • Original Price: USD 12.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 268 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Mental Health and Psychotherapy / Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

My psychologist, Dr. J. Mark Pratt, says "What you do most is what you do best." Certainly, full-time paid employment takes up most of my time, and I am so grateful for that. Coming in close second, however, is mental health treatment. Appointments with psychiatrists/psychologists, mental health support groups, obtaining required blood work from the lab, filling pharmacy prescriptions, going to church, reading literature, and praying/meditating. Also common is doing volunteer work, helping friends and family with tasks, and listening to them when they are troubled. These activities give me positive thoughts that I am contributing to society and help keep me away from the negativity that has been a hallmark of my mental illness.


Thus it has become a life that I truly believe is one worth living. In the early stages of recovery (the late 1990s) I did not share this view. But I survived those tumultuous days and have now entered into an expansive place where peace, even joy, is a common experience.


The psychiatric and psychological treatments that have made this possible cost my mom, Gwen, a lot of money. Although, I have been able to remove this burden from her more recently. It occurred to me that if I could write a book delineating the various aspects of my treatment program, I could share these helpful concepts with others, virtually for free. That is the spirit in which this book is published, and I hope you can utilize it for increased mental health and well-being!

Luce, Stephen, Jr.: - Stephen Luce Jr. lives and works in Silicon Valley, California. He has been most fortunate to have been treated for mental illness by psychopharmacologist Dr. Reed Kaplan, and psychologist Dr. J. Mark Pratt for most of the past 25 years. Also, he benefitted greatly from La Selva, a residential mental health treatment program at which he lived for more than six months. He is thankful to his mom, for working so hard to pay for this top-notch treatment until his full-time employment was able to take this load off her strong shoulders in about the year 2012! Stephen has a law degree from Pepperdine University, but realized he was never going to be able to become a lawyer so thereafter went to De Anza Community College for A.A. paralegal degree. Unusual career path, yes, but it enabled Stephen to first get his foot in the door in the legal industry as a paralegal, and ultimately as a "knowledge manager" at a legal recruiting/headhunting firm where he has worked fulltime since 2006. Stephen very much enjoys having employment in the legal sector, and is most grateful for how his career has evolved to date. While he tries to plan and stay ahead and be strategic, he also sometimes feels like Paul Newman's character in Cool Hand Luke "I never planned anything in my life!"

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