Depression


The Bell Jar
Thirteen Reasons Why
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Reasons to Stay Alive
Speak
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
All the Bright Places
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
The Catcher in the Rye
A Little Life
Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  HoughGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Unsettling Memoirs & Biographies
532 books — 379 voters
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeWithout MAlice by Amesbury ClarkeThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Mental Illness and Disorders
174 books — 126 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathVincent by Joseph FasanoThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherJanuary First by Michael Schofield
Great Reads About Mental Health
363 books — 414 voters
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldA Child Called "It" by Dave PelzerBridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Depressing Novels
131 books — 128 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Mentally Ill Characters
264 books — 263 voters

Stephen Fry
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me. ...more
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Stephen Fry
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.
Stephen Fry

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