Can you suggest interesting books on mental health both fiction and non fiction ?
Can you suggest interesting books on mental health both fiction and non fiction ?
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Can you suggest interesting books on mental health both fiction and non fiction ?
The Asylum For wayward Victorian girls. It’s free on kindle unlimited. Very interesting insight on modern mental health and treatment and also Victorian treatment 🙂 i couldn’t put it down read in in 2 dys 🙂
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
If you like audiobooks, get that version for this book- the author narrates and it’s hilarious!
Her other book is amazing as well!
I second both of her books as well and would also recommended the audio versions!
Brain on Fire (non-fiction), The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (non-fiction), The Book of Lost Things (fiction)
@Taylor the I ave The Man who Mistook… waiting for me. Looking forward to it
@Taylor brain on fire was great
Girl Interrupted
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb involves a character with mental illness.
@Janie She’s Come Undone deals with depression, too. Also Wally Lamb.
@Lisa Yup. Another one of my all-time faves.
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
The show has a lot of controversy surrounding it, but Thirteen Reasons Why is a very interesting book.
Furiously happy by Jenny Lawson! ❤️
@Jenna I absolutely second this. I devoured it in one go.
@Saee same! Lay in bed laughing out loud trying not to wake up my housemates so I could finish it ??
@Jenna same! But I was at work and I had about twenty people shooting me dirty looks.
@Saee only cure then is to recommend the book ?
@Jenna Absolutely. I recommend it to anyone and everyone.
@Saee same!
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk;
First We Make the Beast Beautiful by Sarah Wilson;
It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn;
Quiet by Susan Cain
Neverland – Margot McGovern
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
In my TBR I have a book called Show Me All Your Scars. It describes the lives of people with mental illness and their daily struggles. I have not read it yet but one of the mental illness is one that a family member has experienced. Hope you find what you are looking for!
All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven is a work of art
I read this over the weekend. Amazing x
@Michele so good!
Turtles all the way down by John Green
Turtles All the Way Down – anxiety, Glass Castle – family system, I second Brain on Fire (very good). On my TBR Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing my Mind, and the Beckoners
Reasons to stay alive by Matt haig
The Astonishing Color of After is a ya novel about suicide and mental health!!
Challenger Deep…can’t remember the author. Offers an interesting perspective on schizoaffective disorders and going through different methods of treatment. Also, has resources in the back.
@Jessica Neal Shusterman
The bell jar Sylvia Plath
Girl, Interrupted
The bitch goddess notebook.
The moth diaries.
My lovely wife in the psych ward
Holding up the Universe by Jennifer Niven (?)
Bipolar, Not So Much: Understanding Your Mood Swings and Depression.
This book helped me understand myself a bit more.
A bit outdated, but when I took my Mental Health Technician course, the recommended books were Angel Unaware by Dale Evans Rogers (for understanding mentally challenged residents, especially those with Down Syndrome) and I Never Promised you a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg(for mentally ill patients).
One that is on my TBR is First, We Make the Beast Beautiful by Sarah Wilson
1) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
2) To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World – The Life of Freida Fromm-Reichmann
3) Girl, Interrupted
4) Ordinary People
5) The Bell Jar
It’s kind of a funny story
Deals with anxiety
The Sky is Falling by Raeann Dumont. I read it in Psych in high school. It’s about phobias, panic disorders and OCD.
Reasons to stay alive and Notes on a nervous planet. Both by Matt Haig.
I’m reading furiously happy by Jenny Lawson right now and it’s great.
Reasons to Stay Alive
Nonfiction – Education, Brain on fire
The Bell Jar, Girl,Interrupted, Prozac Nation
The glass castle
Without Merit by Colleen Hoover
Furiously Happy, Perks of Being a Wallflower
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
Because We Are Bad by Lily Bailey… the most accurate and honest portrayal of OCD I’ve ever read.
Project Semicolon by Amy Bleuel
Hyperbole and a half
Following
All the Bright Places (BPD/Depression/PTSD), Little and Lion (BPD), The Impossible Knife of Memory (PTSD), Challenger Deep (Schizophrenia)
Calvin by Martine Leavitt
F
An Unquiet Mind
All books from Laurent Gounelle!
She Comes Undone
Middlesex
All the Bright places,The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
Rachel’s Holiday (about addiction which is sort of mental health – and the psychoanalysis is interesting)
The way I see it by @Lucy
22 Scars by CM North is pretty dark… Just read it and it had me in tears, hit way too close to home.
reasons to stay alive by matt haig… a beautiful read
and his other one – notes from a nervous planet:)
its kind of a funny story by ned vizzini
Nonfiction: The noonday demon: an atlas of depression by Andrew Solomon – a very thorough examination of depression weaving first person accounts of people with depression and his own experience with science.
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Set this house in order. One of my all time faves.
Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon.
The moth diaries by Rachel Klein.