Mental Illness

[close] I'm challenging myself to diversifying my reading list in 2024. When it comes to reading, I stay in my fluffy fiction comfort zone because my work reading can get very serious and depressing. But work has dried up at the moment and I've decided to seize this as an opportunity to step out of that comfort zone and expose myself to the variety of authors out there. I'm making this space to keep myself accountable and if others want to join, that's great! Diversification can look different depending on your positionality. For me, I'm seeking authors outside the white, straight, neurotypical, North American experience. This is what I have so far: January: neurodivergent author February: South Asian author March: Asian author April: LGBTQ+ author May: African author June: book about mental illness July: Transgender author August: South American author September: Disabled author October: Black or African American author November: Middle Eastern author December: Oceanic author (Photo taken from Flickr: https://flickr.com/photos/aadl/6777694048/)

[close] Welcome! We're an online community celebrating neurodivergent writers & stories with mental illness. Our home base is neurodivergentwriters.co and https://www.scribophile.com/groups/neurodivergent-writers/ ➡️ MISSION: Keep an updated archive of neurodivergent writers & stories for research and pleasure. Share inclusive writing opportunities for emerging neurodivergent writers. Feature one book each quarter that explores mental illness or is written by a neurodivergent author. The schedule is: January: Book 1 April: Book 2 August: Book 3 December: Book 4 📖✨

[close] November Book: We are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson Our Resilient Minds is a monthly book club! Each month we will be reading a young adult book that features mental illness. Throughout the reading, we can post responses/reactions, and at the end of the month we will have a Google Hangout/final discussion about the text.

[close] A book club for those who would like to read and discuss books related to mental health. We will be partial to books that discuss living with serious mental illness and the impact that has on individuals and families.