What are your favorite books related to mental health?
What are your favorite books related to mental health?
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Brain on Fire!
On my tbr list ?
The movie was good too.
@Keri loved Brain on Fire!!
This may or may not be what you’re looking for, but Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle is an amazing memoir full of wisdom.
I will add this! Thank you!
I Know this Much is True and Love in the Asylum
I Know this Much is True is fabulous! Have not read the other.
@Barbara has several books that deal with various mental health issues.
Five of them, in fact. <3
The Promise Between Us by @Barbara! One of my favorite reads this year!!
@Beth Thank you. You have turned my grey Tuesday all sunny <3
Also, you guys know it’s Mental Health Awareness Month, right? At least it is for two more days…
Fiction: Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See.
Non-fiction: The Center Cannot Hold and He Wanted the Moon.
One of my favorites: THE LAST SEPTEMBER by Nina de Gramont. Can’t recommend it enough (one of the characters is schizophrenic.)
There are tons of great memoirs, depending on where your interests lie…
I’m willing to read anything ?
One of my favorites is HALDOL & HYACINTHS by Melody Moezzi. It’s a raw, honest–but always hilarious–memoir about bipolar illness.
DEVIL IN THE DETAILS is an oldie but a goodie about OCD.
NOWHERE NEAR NORMAL by Traci Foust is another great one about OCD. As is REWIND REPEAT REPLAY by Jeff Bell (also OCD).
Any book by @Barbara, and Outside the Lines, by @Amy.
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I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb is one of my favorites!
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
My all time favorite! <3 <3 <3
@Indra I keep trying. I know that I should like it, just doesn’t stick.
@Erik it’s a bit slow to start but once I got in I couldn’t put it down.
She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
yes!
The Forgotten Ones, by @Steena
The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell. Great book!
Crazy by Pete Earley
Kissing doorknobs
Dancing on Broken Glass is excellent.
The Weight of Zero.
The First Time She Drowned. All the Bright Places.
My lovely wife in the psych ward
Following
What she left behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Promise Between Us by Barbara Claypole White is very good. It’s about struggles with OCD.
Yes, I second this! I liked her book Echoes of Family also about bipolar,
Eat pray love
Barbara Claypole White’s books and Kathryn Craft also
Just a Pretty Face by @Cathy.
Oh, definitely @Barbara‘s books.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline. The Promise Between Us by Barbara Claypool White. Defending Jacob by William Landay.
The Body Keeps the Score…
The Last Time I Wore A Dress, The Silver Lining Playbook, The Good Luck of Right Now, We Need to Talk About Kevin, anything by Barbara Claypole White
I finally read We Need to Talk About Kevin this year. It’s been my favorite book of the year.
Gorilla and the Bird
Dancing on Broken Glass, by Ka Hancock – a recent read of our book club, and a 4.1. We really enjoyed it.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Girl in Pieces
In the fiction realm, @Sonja‘s All the Best People is excellent.
Thank you!
@Sonja added to my list!
Echoes of Family by @Barbara is an incredible book about bipolar disorder.
Thank you, honey. <3 I love how much you love that book, if that makes sense.
If anyone’s interested in autism, I maintain a list of Autism Reads. Both about it and by autistic authors, fiction and nonfiction, kids picture books to adult. Always taking suggestions for additions, too! http://www.carinoga.com/?page_id=2188
Here’s some. MG Rain Reign, YA Marcelo in the Real World, Memoir Switched On, Nonfiction The Aspie Girls Guide to Being Safe Around Men
Also, I like Anne Lamott’s books, too.
Nobody’s Child
The Promise Between Us by @Barbara
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Anything by @Barbara
All the Bright Places
Marcelo in the Real World
Look Me In The Eye
Sybil is a favorite.
…And I don’t want to live this life
Patty Duke s memoir
@Barbara‘s, The Unfinished Garden and The Perfect Son. No one does it like she does.
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