What’s a book that, in your opinion, speaks truthfully about mental illness?
What’s a book that, in your opinion, speaks truthfully about mental illness?
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What’s a book that, in your opinion, speaks truthfully about mental illness?
The girl on the train -_- and all Edgar Allan poe ‘s short stories :’)
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson.
Hardcore self help: F*ck depression.
Hardcore self help: f*ck anxiety
Both by robert Duff
Gorilla & the bird. It’s excellent
Any specific mental illness?
Just in general
I was just talking about this, and here are some books I mentioned- It’s Kind Of A Funny Story (my fave one and the one I related to the most), All The Bright Places, Turtles All The Way Down, The Bell Jar, Veronica Decides To Die, Girl In Pieces, Perks Of Being A Wallflower, and a fact-book/autobiography called Reasons To Stay Alive 🙂
Eliza & Her Monsters
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Turtles All The Way Down by John Green. I know everyone isn’t a big fan of his books but TATWD does a great job of speaking truthfully about mental illness. It’s one of the most authentic books I’ve read about mental illness.
The pause by John Larkin
Girl, interrupted
The Bell Jar, Furiously Happy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Actually there’s criticism about this book and it’s portrayal of autism.
http://disabilityinkidlit.com/2015/04/04/review-the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time-by-mark-haddon/
Her by Felicia Johnson
Eliza and Her Monsters
Crazy by Amy Reed
Do you mean actually speaks truth about mental illness or portrays mental illness is a realistic way through the characters?
Whichever you prefer but I am curious about characters who are written with mental illness in a realistic way
Challenger deep by neal shusterman
@Catie I just got this from the library.
Turtles all the way down
Kinda go ask Alice like personality and how she views herself not the drug use though
One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Wally Lamb she’s come undone and I know this much is true
Of Mice and Men? Or is that more disability?
@Amanda he has a learning disability 🙂
Fiction: I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
Definitely an 18+ read, and if you don’t like sex scenes don’t read it, but the Kiss Quotient does a very good and accurate job of portraying someone on the autism spectrum
Our Broken Pieces by Sarah White
It’s kind of a funny story by ned vizzini
Turtles All the Way Down
Brain on Fire
Girl in Pieces, It’s kind of a funny story, the perks of being a wallflower, turtles all the way down, furiously happy, The way I used to be, Cut.
I hate you. Don’t leave me. But I can’t remember the author.
It’s about borderline personality disorder.
I haven’t read the book, but I think the show My Mad Fat Diary represents mental illness SO WELL, and captures a lot of relatable feelings in anxiety and depression, at least
When rabbit Howls
All the Bright Places, and Are We All Lemmings & Snowflakes? Both really good, and accurate I think.
I loved The Wicker King and Words on Bathroom Walls. Both deal with schizophrenia, though I don’t know how accurate.
Nonfiction: Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson (both her books are amazing though) and Hi Anxiety by Kat Kinsman
@Lisa completely agree.
Words in Deep Blue did a a great job of grief and depression.
Am I Normal Yet? Showed anxiety and ocd quite well…
Those are my main two recs
I read Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson a while back and thought it was pretty realistic but its graphic forewarning
@Mikayla exactly. It can be triggering for some people. It’s very realistic
@Gabriela yeah, it’s been years since I read it (I think I was 10 or 11) so I don’t remember much but I do remember how graphic it was so I’m glad someone backed me up on that
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Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson is great! I reccomend the audiobook (which she narrates herself) to really understand her experiences!
It’s Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini it is about Depression and it is a great read, I would highly recommend teenagers reading it.
Darius the Great just came out and it speaks beautifully to the depths of depression in teens and adults. So worth it.
I related a lot to Ari in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – I just remember his state of mind being worded really really well
All The Bright Places is really good. It’s the only time a book left me feeling hurt (but I have personal experience with that subject so that might be why it spoke to me)
Which one of the mental illnesses? ‘The Sociopath Next Door, by Dr Martha Stout. Wish it was taught freshman year of high school. Would save some of us years of grief being with people we think are caring
Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green was good too.
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
@Christine that’s my fav!!
All The Bright Plces
Honestly? I don’t think I’ve ever read one
Turtles all the way down by John green was fantastic!
Darius the great is not okay!
Bell Jar and Speak are two good ones
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Crazy by Peter Early
Fangirl, surprisingly, described bipolar disorder in a very realistic manner, but I would definitely recommend Marcelo in the Real World, since it tells the story of a boy in the spectrum and I think that’s something very rare…
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Turtles all the way down by John Green
Reasons to Live by Matt Haig
That’s a great but unfortunately often overlooked novel
“It’s kind of a funny story” by Ned Vizinni
“Crazy” by well I forget who it’s by.. I just know it’s a story I read a few years ago written by a dad and his sons exoeriencd with mental illness
I totally second this❤
@Becki Peter Early. I agree! Excellent! Very thought provoking!
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine.
Depends on what mental illness you are looking for there are many.are you looking for a story or to educate yourself on fully understanding them?
More of a story
Made you up
Veronika Decides To Die by Paulo Coelho
All the bright places
“I Never Promised You a Rose Garden;”
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Bell jar
Yes, have read several times, own a copy.
Diary of a mad housewife by Sue Kaufman.
The serial killer whisperer. Its just fascinating.
I was born for this – Alice Oseman
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
Also: Obsessed: : A Memoir of My Life with OCD by Allison Britz
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson.
A Monster Calls for depression
Turtles all the way down
Believarexic