I’m in the mood for a book with a Mental health topic. Any recs?
I’m in the mood for a book with a Mental health topic. Any recs?
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I’m in the mood for a book with a Mental health topic. Any recs?
My Heart and Other Black Holes – Jasmine Warga
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock….When We Collided…Made You Up…It’s Kind Of A Funny Story…Every Last Word…We Are The Ants…All The Bright Places… My Heart And Other Black Holes
In this way I was saved
Girl, interrupted
compulsion by keith ablow
If you ever want to get inside the mind of a narcissistic sociopath, read You by Caroline Kepnes. I just finished the sequel and am baffled by how it stays on my mind.
Old one but tell me ur dreams by Sydney Sheldon.
Brain on Fire.
The Night I Disappeared by Julie Reece Deaver
I read this in 8th grade and it is still one of my favorite books of all time.
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Buddha and the Borderline
Nocte by Courtney Cole, if you decide to read it come back here and tell me how your brain feels lol
Highly Illogical Behavior
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kestrel_for_a_Knave “Legend!”.
Alzeimer’s – Still Alice by Lisa Genova, The House on Beartown Road by Elizabeth Cohen, a memoir.
Autism – Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin, a memoir. House Rules by Jodi Picoult, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.
Down’s Syndrome: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards, Like Normal People by Robert Meyers, Expecting Adam by Martha Beck, a memoir.
Reclaiming the sand and Chasing the tide
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a classic or there’s Girl Interrupted
The Museum of Intangible Things.
‘Veronika Decides to Die’ by Paulo Coelho. You can easily download it on PDF via internet. Dear Baylin you have to read this extraordinary book. Its an ORDER not a recommendation. I’ll check on you after a week whether u read it or not.
The memory book by Lara Avery
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
– The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli- the main character has anxiety
– Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall – the main character has OCD and is agoraphobic (trigger warning for self harm!)
– Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley – main character is agoraphobic
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
What Alice Forgot- by Moriarty
Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella & either Jennifer Niven books 🙂
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
pillow book of the genji
Elizabeth is missing by Emma Healey. Written from the perspective of someone with dementia/alziehmers. Very good read
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
When We Collided was SO GOOD! I don’t normally read anything other than Fantasy and SciFi, but this one was worth breaking out of my comfort zone.
Inside I’m screaming.
It took me about 15 secs to realize you weren’t expressing yourself. ?
lol. Well…. I don’t actually tell people if I’m screaming inside 😉 Catchy title of a book, and it was certainly the name that attracted my attention first. Sorry……. i usually do put titles in quotation marks!
It was funny!
🙂
Koontz: False Memory
Letting Ana go
Romancing the dark in the city of light. Great book
The glass castle, running with scissors, anything by torey L. Hayden (I believe). I like memoirs when it comes to mental Health books.
Perks of Being a Wallflower, Girl Interrupted, Crank by Ellen Hopkins, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, I have more, but I don’t want to bombard you with titles since you have a nice list going on in this thread. I did write a paper in undergrad about mental illnesses in YA literature, so I have several more if you want more.
The Idea of You by Amanda Prowse
Crazy by Han Nolan or Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan
A Quiet Kind of Thunder, Am I Normal Yet?, A Tragic Kind of Wonderful, Under Rose-Tainted Skies, Mosquitoland
Good to see so very many titles…I shall have to look a few of these up myself. I read also ‘Gone Girl’ about a month ago, and it is a bit of a shocker but I was also thinking that it is quite a study into a high functioning sociopath.
Bedlam’s Door