Mental Illness

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

New Releases Tagged "Mental Illness"

Evil Genius
Is This a Cry for Help?
Esther Is Now Following You
Sociopath
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Silent Flames (Dark & Silent Night, #4)
What My Bones Know
You'd Be Home Now
The Glass Girl
Esther Is Now Following You
Evil Genius
The Secrets of Us
More or Less Maddy
Night Watch
Adelaide
The Last Days of Kira Mullan (Maud O'Connor Mysteries #2)
Shy Creatures
We Could Be Rats
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
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Made You Up
Every Last Word
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Kick by C.D. ReissGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyIt's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned VizziniThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Reading About Psychiatric Wards
52 books — 102 voters
The Outsiders by S.E. HintonGo Ask Alice by Beatrice SparksI Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah  GreenThat Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. HintonSteffie Can't Come Out to Play by Fran Arrick
Classic Teens in Trouble
268 books — 70 voters

Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Transgressive Fiction
873 books — 970 voters
So Much to Tell You by John MarsdenThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeA Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara  BarnardOne Child by Torey L. HaydenUntil Friday Night by Abbi Glines
Selective Mutism
112 books — 74 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
395 books — 422 voters
ALS Saved My Life ... until it didn't by Jenni Kleinman BerebitskyHyperbole and a Half by Allie BroshKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldEl Deafo by Cece Bell
Books Written by Disabled Authors
406 books — 171 voters


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Carrie Fisher
One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you're living with this illness an ...more
Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

Erich Fromm
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

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