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Michigan Libraries for Life!

by iralax

On Monday, October 16, Michigan Libraries for Life! will be onsite at the Downtown AADL 10:00am to 2:00pm.

Since 2010, libraries across Michigan have participated in this simple and effective campaign to educate patrons about organ, tissue, and eye donation and to encourage them to join the Michigan Organ Donor Registry. This effort was originally spearheaded by the University of Michigan’s Taubman Health Sciences Library but has expanded to include public, academic, special, and hospital libraries across the state. This collaborative effort has inspired nearly 3,500 people to sign up as donors!

More than 95% of Americans support organ, tissue and eye donation. In Michigan, only 59% of adults have joined the state’s donor registry. That discrepancy is largely due to state residents not knowing how to join the donor registry, or having unanswered questions about donation. Michigan Libraries for Life helps to address that informational need.

We are excited to bring this life-saving event back in 2017! If you have questions, please contact us at MichLib4Life@umich.edu to receive more information. You can also find Michigan Libraries for Life on Facebook! www.facebook.com/ML4Life

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Public Event

Guided Meditation for Kids

Wednesday November 8, 2017: 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Pittsfield Branch: Program Room
Grade 1 - 5

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Public Event

Guided Meditation for Kids

Thursday December 14, 2017: 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room
Grade 1 - 5

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Lectures & Panel Discussions

Raw Vegan Winter Tips

Tuesday December 12, 2017: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Westgate Branch: West Side Room

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Lectures & Panel Discussions

Conquering Food Cravings with a Raw Diet

Tuesday November 14, 2017: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Malletts Creek Branch: Program Room

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Lectures & Panel Discussions

Raw Vegan Fall Detox

Tuesday October 10, 2017: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting Room

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Feeling Anxious?

by Lucy S

The following memoirs are all unflinchingly honest and personal accounts of those grappling with anxiety and panic disorders.

In My Age of Anxiety : Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind, Scott Stossel reports with candor on his constant and continued battles with severe anxiety in many forms. Accessible, readable, funny, forthright and extremely well researched, Stossel’s book offers alternating personal accounts with examinations of anxiety as seen in past and present science and philosophy. Daniel Smith also looks at how writers, scientists and other thinkers have considered anxiety while delving deeply into his own in Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety. Like Stossel, Smith allows readers a very close look at his daily fears, and like Stossel bravely tackles the subject with much humor.

Andrea Petersen was a student at the University of Michigan when she suffered her first panic attack. In On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety, she recalls how she went from doctor to doctor, one misdiagnosis after another to realize that her physical pain was caused by debilitating anxiety. She was eventually diagnosed with several different anxiety disorders.

Petersen chronicles her anxiety on a very personal level, but also takes us through myriad treatments, both past and present, as well as the physiology and genetics of anxiety disorders.

These accounts of crippling anxiety mixed with studies of this common and misunderstood mental illness have the potential to offer considerable help to anyone suffering from anxiety or close to someone who is.

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Public Event

Still Mountain Meditation

Saturday November 11, 2017: 9:30am to 12:30pm
Traverwood Branch: Program Room
Adults

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Public Event

Introduction to Insight Meditation with Still Mountain Meditation

Saturday October 21, 2017: 9:30am to 12:30pm
Pittsfield Branch: Program Room

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The S-Word Film Screening and Panel Discussion

by Sunny29

September is national Suicide Prevention month. In an effort to lessen the stigma associated with those that suffer from depression and suicidal thinking, the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program, and the University of Michigan Depression Center in collaboration with the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, will host a screening of the documentary The S Word, on Sunday, September 10th.

Following the screening, a panel discussion will talk about suicide signals, prevention strategies, and education featuring:

Lisa Klein, Filmmaker and U-M Alumna; Melvin McInnis, M.D., Research Director, Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program
Cheryl King, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, U-M Depression Center Faculty
Julie Kaplan, embedded CAPS Counselor at Ross
Spencer Walz, Student & Volunteer with NAMI Washtenaw County
Sam Orley, Executive Director, Wolverine Support Network; member of Mental Health America's Collegiate Mental Health Innovation Council

This event is free of charge and open to the campus community and the public, but pre-registration is required.