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Task #23: Read a book that demystifies a common mental illness
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
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Jenny Lawson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 174,211 ratings
score: 293,
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Just Breathe Anthology
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Michelle Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.68 avg rating — 186 ratings
score: 200,
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Back, After the Break
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4.16 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood
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Edward M. Hallowell (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 15,219 ratings
score: 199,
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
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4.13 avg rating — 20,170 ratings
score: 197,
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Here's to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire: An Absent-Minded Tale of Life with Giftedness and Attention Deficit - Oh Look! A Chicken!
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Stacey Turis (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 519 ratings
score: 100,
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[Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
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4.01 avg rating — 2,357 ratings
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
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4.33 avg rating — 22,817 ratings
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Reasons to Stay Alive
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Matt Haig (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 111,124 ratings
score: 99,
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Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder
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Edward M. Hallowell (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 4,972 ratings
score: 98,
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Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
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4.28 avg rating — 637 ratings
score: 98,
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The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents
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3.90 avg rating — 893 ratings
score: 97,
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Defying the Verdict: my bipolar life
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3.84 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia
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Marin Sardy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 728 ratings
score: 97,
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First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety
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Sarah Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 16,689 ratings
score: 96,
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Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
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Stacy Pershall (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 3,902 ratings
score: 96,
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Prozac Nation
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3.64 avg rating — 63,784 ratings
score: 95,
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The Man Who Couldn't Stop
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3.89 avg rating — 5,859 ratings
score: 95,
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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Kay Redfield Jamison (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 85,325 ratings
score: 94,
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My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
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Scott Stossel (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 7,493 ratings
score: 94,
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Heart Berries: A Memoir
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Terese Marie Mailhot (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 29,907 ratings
score: 93,
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21 books ·
10 voters ·
list created December 7th, 2020
by Sarah Fairbank (votes) .
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