Product Description

Mood mapping simply involves plotting how you feel against your energy levels, to determine your current mood. Dr Liz Miller then gives you the tools you need to lift your low mood, so improving your mental health and wellbeing. Dr Miller developed this technique as a result of her own diagnosis of bipolar disorder (manic depression), and of overcoming it, leading her to seek ways to improve the mental health of others.

This innovative book illustrates:

* The Five Keys to Moods: learn to identify the physical or emotional factors that affect your moods

* The Miller Mood Map: learn to visually map your mood to increase self-awareness

* Practical ways to implement change to alleviate low mood

Mood mapping is an essential life skill; by giving an innovative perspective to your life, it enables you to be happier, calmer and to bring positivity to your own life and to those around you.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2989 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
'A gloriously accessible read from a truly unique voice.' --Mary O'Hara, The Guardian

'It's great to have such accessible and positive advice about our moods which, after all, govern everything we do. I love the idea of MoodMapping.' --Dr Phil Hammond

'MoodMapping is a fantastic tool for managing your mental health and taking control of your life.'
--Jonathan Naess, Founder of Stand to Reason

'Two weeks in and my anxiety levels dropped. Mood Mapping made me feel as if I was getting to know myself. It's good to know there is a tool out there that's at once diagnostic and uplifting.'
--Red Magazine

About the Author

A trained neurosurgeon, Dr Liz Miller currently works as an Occupational Health Physician. She has been published widely, and has appeared on TV and radio discussing mental health issues. Most recently she was voted MIND Mental Health Champion of the Year 2008.

Customer Reviews

buy it you won't be disappointed
I have read many self help books in my time, to help me through my journey in life. Many of them churn existing ideas around, and offer little in the way of anything new, other than a different perspective in life. Once in a while, a book comes along with a totally different set of ideas, and a radically new approach. I would put Anthony Robbins 'Awaken the Giant Within' and Richard Bandler's NLP in that class. Mood Mapping is a book that is in the same class. I truly hope that it becomes a classic in the same way as the other books has and Liz Miller gets recognized for her contribution towards human understanding of psychology. This has all ready started to happen when she was made Mind Personality of the Year.
Jung and Freud never did much for me, but the ideas set out in the book do. Her ideas of Mood Mapping allow me to plot out my moods, in a way I never have done before. This has the knock on effect of me being able to behave appropriately whatever the situation. Knowing what state I am in, I can sort of nudge myself towards the state I would like to be in. For this customer, Mood Mapping will be much read, much loved, and much used.
She sets out a book as a self help course, and suggests we should plot our moods over 14 days, Well it will take me longer than that, and I'll find a way that suits me, using her method as my starting point. I can't be bothered to go out and buy a spiral notebook as she suggests, (p32) I'll use bits of A4 paper stuck to the wall around the house, to be filed as and when, but that's me not her. But I will become aware (p30)I'll probably miss the suggestions on exercise, I don't even run for a bus these days,but may be I'll get around to these suggestions when I am ready.
Many people would benefit from this book, not least well meaning mental health professionals, who treat their patients with outdated methods, that sometimes do more damage than good. I guess that is too much to hope for, that it is put on their reading list, but hopefully in the not too distant future it will happen.
I wish Dr Miller every success with her book, and hope she persuades many other mental health professionals, that her way is the right way forward, and the world will be a much better place for it.

A Practical Self Help Book That Works!
How many self help books promise the answers, and then leave you to work them out for yourself? Finally, a book that is written by someone who is clearly an authority, yet is reassuringly easy to read and follow. Dr Liz Miller writes with warmth, humour, and an openness that is so refreshing and encouraging. As a therapist myself I encourage anyone who is looking for a way to manage their moods, rather than have their moods mange them, to look no further. Here you will find a system that is clearly explained and simplified to help you every step of the way. Excellent book!

Great Book by a very brave lady - should win the Nobel
Dr Liz Miller was once 'the brightest young neurosurgeon in this country'. Due to the pressures of her job, she had a breakdown. She recovered and retrained as an A&E surgeon, and again the pressure of her work drove her into mental collapse.
She comes from a medical family, I believe, and would have preferred to train as an artist. However, her parents pressurised her into medicine, although she has a first degree in Divinity.
She was eventually sectioned and admitted to the Royal Bethlem & Maudsley unit for health workers, when psychiatrists diagnosed her with bipolar disorder - a diagnosis that I believe was erroneous.
Through all her trials and tribulations Liz Miller has continued to practise patient centred medicine of the highest quality - I know this because I met her when I edited my one and only edition of Pendulum, the newsletter of the then MDF, know known as the Bipolar Association, I believe. She was a constant voice of sanity and reassurance on the phone as I struggled to cope with service users, employees of the MDF, and psychiatrists - some of whom sounded disconcertingly like their patients.
I consider myself privileged to know her. I've had her book for weeks and already it is dog-eared - leant to I do not know which friend.
Mike Sharples, professer of learning technology or something at Nottingham, once told me that many writers have manic depression. Liz is one who has been through the mill and emerged triumphant. Every writer in the world should buy this book.
And so should every politician.