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
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
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenAn Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield JamisonThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanDarkness Visible by William Styron
Memoirs of Madness
292 books — 374 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
Gut by Giulia EndersThe End of Alzheimer's by Dale E. BredesenUndoctored by William  DavisThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Jamange Line by The Conductor
Healthy Aging
395 books — 113 voters

Ned Vizzini
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare. ...more
Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

Elizabeth Wurtzel
I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Just like the Cheshire cat, someday I will suddenly leave, but the artificial warmth of my smile, that phony, clownish curve, the kind you see on miserably sad people and villains in Disney movies, will remain behind as an ironic remnant. I am the girl you see in the photograph from some party someplace or some picnic in the park, the one who is in fac ...more
Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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