Mental Illness

Books about the internal struggles people must face when confronted with mental illnesses or mental disorders.

New Releases Tagged "Mental Illness"

Anger Is Only a Shadow
When the Smoke Clears
Exposures: A Story About Life with OCD and the Power of Facing Your Fears
Hollow Bones
Sociopath
The Sad Ghost Club, Vol. 2
You'd Be Home Now
The Truth About Ruby Cooper
Anger Is Only a Shadow
When the Smoke Clears
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Her Silence
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
Silent Flames (Dark & Silent Night, #4)
The Secrets of Us
Esther Is Now Following You
Adelaide
The Glass Girl
The Bell Jar
All the Bright Places
Girl, Interrupted
Turtles All the Way Down
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Thirteen Reasons Why
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Wintergirls
Challenger Deep
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Made You Up
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Every Last Word
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireLolita by Vladimir NabokovWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareStolen by Lucy Christopher
Crazy Love
482 books — 375 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Depression and Mental Illness
611 books — 515 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyTeaching Disability by Rhoda OlkinTeaching Disability by Rhoda OlkinI Have to Call Someone Mama by Tammy Eady WalkerEverything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
Best Books On Mental Health
313 books — 267 voters
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse AndersonWasted by Marya HornbacherUnbearable Lightness by Portia de RossiJust Listen by Sarah DessenThin by Lauren Greenfield
Best Eating Disorder Books
533 books — 1,012 voters

The Secret History by Donna TarttMiss Pym Disposes by Josephine TeyCat Among the Pigeons by Agatha ChristieGentlemen and Players by Joanne HarrisWell-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth  George
School Murder Mysteries
133 books — 90 voters
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse AndersonCut by Patricia McCormickWillow by Julia HobanScars by Cheryl RainfieldGirl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
Books On Self-Injury
147 books — 221 voters


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Kay Redfield Jamison
“ There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to captivate others a felt certainty. There are interests found in uninteresting people. Sensuality is pervasive and the desire to seduce and be seduced irresistibl ...more ”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

John  Green
“ The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely. ”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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