I am looking for any suggestions regarding fiction dealing with Mental health issues.
I am looking for any suggestions regarding fiction dealing with Mental health issues. I have read some interesting non fiction in this area, and all fiction I seem to have read in relevance to this, has been YA. So, looking for more suggestions in the adult-fiction genre. 🙂
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir
by Mark Vonnegut M.D. This book is non fiction as well, but very interesting and insightful.
Which books have you read on mental health, please share.
non fiction but a super good book.
A Faint Heart by Dostoyevsky
Some non fiction I have read in this area, spans various mental health issues.
‘An unquiet mind’ by Kay redfield jameson
‘Furiously happy’ by Jenny Lawson
‘The man who mistook his wife for a hat’ by Oliver Sacks
‘The man who couldn’t stop’ by David Adam
‘Reasons to stay alive’ by Matt Haig
‘The sociopath next door’ by Martha Stout (this one is about sociopaths, and is an interesting read)
Thank you
Furiously Happy is great!
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach
I’m going to read The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah for this prompt on the PopSugar challenge.
The Glass Castle
My Lobotomy
Non fiction, an unquiet mind, is awesome.
Yeah. Read this, one of my favourites.
An amazing book on MH & how it was treated in the Victorian age is life in the Victorian asylum, the book is written from. The point of view with you as the inpatient. I’m currently reading it to help with my MH studies
The Professor and the Mad Man.
The Bell Jar is a must read
I keep wondering why I still haven’t read this. High time then ?
Yes. The Bell Jar is a must!
The Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant might be a good one.
The bell jar ?
Ordinary People by Judith Guest. I read this when I was much younger by about 40 years. Fiction dealing with family dynamics in the aftermath of the drowning death of one child and the subsequent guilt and depression of the other child. The book really touched me and the movie was very good too
Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell.
The dumb house. It was fascinating to me. Read the description and see if it’s anything close to what you are looking for.
I just finished Henry’s sisters by Cathy Lamb- siblings with mental health issues- very dysfunctional family after difficult childhoods, really liked it
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon and The Address by Fiona Davis are the first two I thought of. Then I remembered The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian.