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Mental Illness
Books about the internal struggles people must face when confronted with mental illnesses or mental disorders.
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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
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― Prozac Nation
― Prozac Nation
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When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them
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― Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
― Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
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a challenge that encourages readers to seek out reed and recommend books with lgbt, disability, …more
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Mentally Illiterature is a book club in which we read one YA book per month, ideally a new relea…more
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Silent Heroes: end of a World is a story about divorce, child abuse, child custody, and shows th…more
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