Hi! I’m looking for recommendations on books about mental health.
Hi! I’m looking for recommendations on books about mental health.
Thanks!!! ❤
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Hi! I’m looking for recommendations on books about mental health.
Thanks!!! ❤
Maybe Falling into the Fire? I haven’t read it yet but I have it and it seems really interesting.
The Noonday Demon: an Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon is excellent
Memoir/autobiographies on mental health: Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. Prozac Nation.
Sickened by Julie Gregory
It’s not out yet, it will be out on December 11, but a therapist I follow on YouTube just wrote a book about mental health. It’s called “Are U Okay” by Kati Morton. I haven’t pre-ordered it because I’m hoping I’ll get it for Christmas.
Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker, a good one to read first
Freedom from the known by Krishnamurti
I second this.
@Gwendolyn what is this one about?
@Diana it is a young adult novel about a girl struggling with mental illness.
I liked this one. Gave it 4 stars I think
Steve Price on Amazon.
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Keasey.
this one is on my 50/50 list. Hope to get to it in 2019 or 2020
The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn Saks, Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, and my personal favorite, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
”Let’s pretend this never happened” and “Furoisly happy” by Jenny Lawson.
Anything by Joan Didion, Anne Lamott, Brene Brown, Irvin Yalom
non fic：Born on a Blue Day by Tammet, My Lobotomy by Dully.
Matt Haig books
Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff
I hate you don’t leave me
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and The Bell Jar
When Rabbit Howls
Challenger Deep.
Darkness Visible – William Styron
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
I loved 10 days in a madhouse , written in 1887
House Rules.
The Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns
Wayne Dyer books.
The Road Less Traveled by M Scott Peck goes, “Life is difficult”.
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb, The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks, and Brain on Fire by Susan Cahalan, and A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nassar
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn is also good. It’s fiction but accurately depicts agoraphobia
can you narrow down to more specific area?
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia (general anxiety) and Every Last Word by Tamera Ireland Stone (OCD).
loved both of those too
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
The Quiet Room, Behind the Gates of Gemmorah
I Don’t Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz
One of my all time favorite books is She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Secondly, there is What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman. Third/Fourth would be The Glass Cadtle by Jeanette Wells and Educated by Dr. Tara Westover. Fifth would be Secret Storms by Julie Mannix.
Fire Your Shrink by Michele Weiner-Davis.
“Girl, Interrupted,” by an author whose name escapes me.
Loved this one too
Educated
The bell jar
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. Hay
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson and Esucated by Tara Westover
The Center Cannot Hold
Autobiographical account of a woman with schizophrenia during (I think) the 70s
My favorite book dealing with this suicide and depression is All The Bright Places by Jeniffer Niven . It is a must read
@Sydney This book seriously did me in. It’s the kind of book that stays with you. I LOVED it.
The Noonday Demon
Divided minds
Comeback
An unquiet mind
I know this Much is true
But inside I’m screaming
The Transparent Self
Quiet: The Power of Introverts…
The Body Keeps the Score
The Dance of Anger
I Know This Much To Be True by Wally Lamb. It is fiction, not sure if that is what you are lookin for.
Girl Interrupted
Kay Redfield Jamison books-
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament and An Unquiet Mind
Also, The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness by Pete Earley
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Brain on fire
Loved this one
I have a list of 31 books that I’d like to read on mental health. Sorry I haven’t read any of these but want to https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6032642-mom2triplets04?order=a&shelf=mental-health&sort=date_read
The Silver Lining Playbook by Matthew Quick (fiction) Darkness Visible by William Styron (autobiographical story of his hours with depression).