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Book 1: Emotional Swing of War. Reflections of a psychotherapist on war

There is no life that has not changed completely since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine. Not only our everyday life has changed, but also our emotional reactions. Everything from fear, anxiety, and anger to guilt and sadness is so intense that it is sometimes difficult to imagine how to deal with these emotions at all. Because if we used to have certain patterns of how to behave in every situation, how to react, now all these patterns are broken, and our minds are in chaos; every day we see things that should not exist in the civilised world."

Any emotional reaction is a normal response to the abnormal circumstances of war, says psychotherapist Volodymyr Stancyshyn. We have the right to feel rage, we have the right to want revenge, we can turn on black and white thinking and not feel guilty. We can be sad, we can cry as much as we need to. This is a book about the emotions of civilians on the home front: those who stayed in Ukraine and those who were forced to leave their homes, all those who volunteer, donate and wait for their loved ones from the front, all those who start their day with the news and wake up to air raid alerts. We did not choose to live in a time of historical change, but war is something that cannot be abstracted from, so our task now is to learn to cope on our personal level, to live to win this war.

Book 2. Walls in my head. Living with anxiety and depression

Imagine that you are waiting for your dream date, but you are not a very confident person. You know that your partner is the pinnacle of all your dreams, so you need to be in the best shape of your life. Does this situation bother you? If not, close this book and buy the How to Learn Not to Lie guide. If you do, welcome to the club of anxious patients.

The Walls in My Head by Vladimir Stanczyshyn is dedicated to anxiety, depression, social phobias, and various mental disorders that affect a person's usual way of life in society to a greater or lesser extent. It will not cure you of unpleasant conditions, but it will help you understand that it is possible to live with them. According to the author, we all have anxiety, and there is nothing unusual about it. The main thing is to understand that anxiety accompanies us all our lives and plays an important role in our existence.