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Book 1: Being Okay. What you need to know about your mental health

It is important for us to «be okay». After all, our physical condition, ability to take care of ourselves, to be successful in our profession and satisfaction with life in general depend on our mental health. In Ukraine, it is still a shame to talk about mental health, it is scary to think about it, it is expensive to see a doctor, and it is not even known how to find one.

In the book «Being Okay: What You Need to Know About Mental Health, you will find not only basic information about mental health with links to medical protocols, but also a certain system of guidelines. The author focuses on the Ukrainian context: what is said about what, what stereotypes exist, what problems arise, what causes them, and what are their possible consequences.

The first part contains general information about the mental state of a person, its connection with the physical state, and describes the principles of brain functioning and emotions. The second part deals with the most common mental disorders. The book ends with &Being Okay» by considering historical trauma as a factor affecting collective mental health.

This book was published with the support of the Institutional Support Grant provided by the Ukrainian Book Institute.

Book 2. You can do it! 7 components of a healthy lifestyle

This is a guide to a conscious attitude to life and improving health. It contains recommendations on diet, weight and sleep management, physical activity and medical examinations. All the theses and conclusions are based on modern scientific data, medical recommendations and diagnostic and treatment protocols. The author explains in detail how to take a balanced and conscious attitude to your own health and lifestyle, not to go to extremes, not to believe in magic pills, magical thinking and not to resort to strict restrictions. In addition, the book is written for and about modern Ukrainians, with a deep understanding and empathy for their daily challenges. The book is illustrated by the artist Olga Degtyarova.

This is also the first book in the Optimistic About Health series, and the next book will focus on mental health.

This book was published with the funds of the Institutional Support Grant provided by the Ukrainian Book Institute.

Book 3. A book for adults. How to grow older without getting old

Realistically about growing older in Darka Ozerna's new book "A Book for Adults. How to grow older but not grow old", which became the third in the series "Optimistic about health."

In fact, in our information space, the life of all people over 35 is hardly noticeable. What do "adults" do? Is it true that older people are all sick, boring, outdated, don't want sex and don't like themselves in the mirror? No, it's not true. It's high time we reconsidered our attitudes to age, ageing, aging, and chronic illness. And not just to "stop being sick", but to understand what is happening to us, what are the risks and opportunities at each age, and to continue to grow older and not age.

"A book for adults. How to grow older without growing old" will help you do that. It deals with factors that slow down or accelerate aging, prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer, living with diabetes and lung and intestinal diseases, taking care of the body from the eyes to the bones, mental well-being, general and specific nutritional advice, menopause, erection, sex, and how to live happily ever after. Only without magic and magic pills.

Darka Ozerna, as always, easily, scientifically and evidence-based, with quotes from Oksana Zabuzhko, Yevhenia Kuznetsova, Serhiy Zhadan, Yuri Izdryk, Patriarch Yuri Andrukhovych, Ivan Semesyuk and Les Podervyansky, gives answers to unexpected and provocative questions:

• Is there a basis for the meme about the "glass of water in old age" and what connection can there be between dehydration and delirium?
• Which wrinkles can be prevented and which ones can be smoothed out as you want?
• Why is it very good to be sweet cakes after seventy?
• Why is it worth giving your parents a few sex toys?
• Do crosswords save you from dementia?
• Why does a very old neighbour think you are a prostitute? Why is giving a bottle of red wine sexy, but a box of chocolates is not?