Introductions (optional!) :)

[Di]

✨ emma ✨ wrote: "Hi everyone!! I’m Emma. New to Good Reads, keen to build up a bit of a network. I’m from Australia and have generalised anxiety disorder that is very much part of my whole life. Reading helps ❤️"

Welcome, Emma!

[Charles]

Hi Group.

I'm a psychiatrist and author of both fiction and nonfiction. This includes textbooks on co-occurring mental health and substance use (2014, second edition comes out in 2021), a book on opioids (2018), and a couple older books on bipolar and Alzheimer's. I also did a PARADE special edition last year on the Science of Sleep--which is a wicked-interesting and important subject.

I write murder mysteries and thrillers under my own name and urban fantasy with LGBTQ+ protagonists under the pen name Caleb James. I try to keep the fiction and nonfiction separate, because no one wants a psychiatrist who spends each morning contemplating murder and how best to get away with it.
ElixirHaffling
Co-Occurring Disorders: Integrated Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use and Mental Disorders

[Di]

Welcome, Charles!

[Stefan]

You are very versatile and I like your irony. If I saw a psychiatrist I'd be pleased that he had a wild imagination and a sense of humour.

[Sarah]

Hi everyone!
I’m Sarah and I have been on goodreads for about a year and this is the first group I have joined. 2020 has tested my mental health and I experienced my first anxiety attack a while back. I joined this group so I wouldn’t feel so alone with learning how to deal with the increasing pressures and also because I have found books to be my escapism :)

[Ilyssa]

Hi Everyone!

I'm Ilyssa. I joined the group several days ago. I just graduated with a BA in psychology and plan to become a psychotherapist.
I know a variety of people within my family and friends with a variety of mental disorders. I suffer from anxiety. I love reading different mental health-related books, especially about disorders or problems I personally do not know much about yet. I look forward to interacting more with this group!

[Di]

Welcome, Sarah and Ilyssa! Maybe you would be interested in our bookshelf with anxiety representation available here. I recently suggested more books with anxiety rep in discussions, take look there too.

[Emma]

Hi everyone my name is Emma and I’m new here on Goodreads! I graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in 2011 and the following two years worked on my bachelors degree in Business Administration. I’ve worked in numerous placed in the fashion industry and now work for myself as a full time apparel reseller. While it has its upsides, it’s a breeding ground for health anxiety worriers.

I have always had GAD, but as of recently been struggling with health anxiety. I recently been on medication and doing CBT.

My therapist recommended me I should try to read books to help me with my word finding capabilities and anxiety.

[Di]

Emma wrote: "Hi everyone my name is Emma and I’m new here on Goodreads! I graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in 2011 and the following two years worked on my bachelors degree in Busi..."

Welcome, Emma! Happy new year!

[Hannah]

Hello there, I'm Hannah. I'm 20 (soon to be 21!) and an undergraduate student at a local Conservatory. I study Music Therapy & Psychology.

This past year was the icing on the cake for me mental-health-wise. In 2017, I was diagnosed with a physical chronic illness: polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). In 2019, I was diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a Specific Learning Disorder (SLD). In 2020, I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Soooo yeah, this year was fun. :P

I love reading and writing, and someday I'd love to convert my journals detailing my journey with PTSD into a novel about it. But for now, I'm looking to read more books (especially fiction) about mental health, find more representation, and educate myself on disability.

[Hala]

Hello! im hala, im 15 and ive been strugling with an eating disorder for the better part of last year, ive been going to therapy and i reaaaaally like reading so im kinda using it as a coping mechanism

[Di]

Hannah wrote: "Hello there, I'm Hannah. I'm 20 (soon to be 21!) and an undergraduate student at a local Conservatory. I study Music Therapy & Psychology.

This past year was the icing on the cake for me mental-h..."

Welcome, Hannah! Music Therapy & Psychology sounds interesting. Hope you find interesting things to read with us!

[Di]

Hala wrote: "Hello! im hala, im 15 and ive been strugling with an eating disorder for the better part of last year, ive been going to therapy and i reaaaaally like reading so im kinda using it as a coping mecha..."

Welcome, Hala! Our eating disorders bookshelf is available here. But some of them might be triggering so maybe be careful and read some reviews..

[Laur]

Hi everyone I recently found this group and thought I’d join. For the past few years I’ve been working on my mental health, and have acknowledged I have depression. I’ve scheduled my first therapy session for next week, as I’ve been having more bad days lately. I’m 34 years old, she/her pronouns, and I live in New York. I look forward to contributing to the group and I plan on checking put the previous reads. As an American I can say looking into this group today certainly seems appropriate, and I am grateful that myself and loved one don’t live in Washington, D.C.

[Di]

Lauren wrote: "Hi everyone I recently found this group and thought I’d join. For the past few years I’ve been working on my mental health, and have acknowledged I have depression. I’ve scheduled my first therapy ..."

Welcome, Lauren! Previous monthly books are available
here.

[Mark]

Hi folks. Reader and writer here: Mark Matthews
I have a Masters in Counseling, and have worked in behavioral health for over 20 years. I've written a number of dark fiction works featuring addiction, and my latest is a work of horror that tackles numerous implications of mental illness, with a particular focus on Bipolar Disorder.

[Di]

Mark wrote: "Hi folks. Reader and writer here: Mark Matthews
I have a Masters in Counseling, and have worked in behavioral health for over 20 years. I've written a number of dark fiction works ..."

Welcome, Mark!

[Evan P]

Hi, I am Evan and I am extremely interested in psychology and I love reading books about mental health and mental illness as I am a sufferer too (depression,social anxiety,OCD).I would like to find more books based on these topics! (new reader)

[Di]

Evan V wrote: "Hi, I am Evan and I am extremely interested in psychology and I love reading books about mental health and mental illness as I am a sufferer too (depression,social anxiety,OCD).I would like to find..."

Welcome, Evan! Our bookshelf has separate tags for the themes you mentioned, some direct links here

how to use bookshelf
anxiety books
more anxiety recommendations in a post
depression
OCD
psychology

[Christine]

Hi, I'm Christine. I'm 27-years-old and have PTSD, OCD, and depression.

[Di]

Welcome, Christine! Some links to bookshelf and OCD and depression are in post above yours.

[Di]

Ina wrote: "Hi, I'm Ina. I found this group by googling (hoping such a group exists) and here it is. Thank you!"

Welcome, Ina!

[Topher]

Hey everyone!

My name is Topher Edwards. I'm looking forward to discussing mental health books and having some good discussions!

I am also an author, having published a series of mental health memoirs. Please feel free to add me as a friend!

Topher Edwards

The BPD Journals: A Year in the Life

[Di]

Topher wrote: "Hey everyone!

My name is Topher Edwards. I'm looking forward to discussing mental health books and having some good discussions!

I am also an author, having published a series of mental health me..."

Welcome, Topher!

[[deleted user]]

Hi. I'm Alice and I have pure o and depresso expresso and probably other stuff but I haven't delved too deep into it lol.

[Di]

Alice wrote: "Hi. I'm Alice and I have pure o and depresso expresso and probably other stuff but I haven't delved too deep into it lol."


Welcome, Alice!

Books with OCD and depression representation can be found here:
how to use bookshelf
depression
OCD

[Corinasenior]

Hi guys!

My name is Corina and I suffer from anxiety, depression, and panic attacks. I've recently joined the team at The Climate Journal Project, which is a venture that aims to alleviate environmental grief and anxiety through guided journaling and other meditative products. I've started to journal more often as a result and it's helped a lot.

You guys should check it out!
(theclimatejournalproject.com // https://bit.ly/climatejournal2021)

I'm glad to join the group! Nice to meet ya'll!

[Di]

Corinasenior wrote: "Hi guys!

My name is Corina and I suffer from anxiety, depression, and panic attacks. I've recently joined the team at The Climate Journal Project, which is a venture that aims to alleviate enviro..."

Welcome, Corina!

Some quick links to begins browsing books you might be interested in:
how to use bookshelf
anxiety books
more anxiety recommendations in a post
depression

[Lilly #2]

Hey there! My name is Lilly and I suffer from depression, anxiety, adhd and anorexia (these are all undiagnosed as I am terrified of telling my parents).

[Di]

Lilly #2 wrote: "Hey there! My name is Lilly and I suffer from depression, anxiety, adhd and anorexia (these are all undiagnosed as I am terrified of telling my parents)."

Welcome, Lilly! Sometimes telling parents can get you closer to getting help you need.
Books with themes you mentioned:
How to use bookshelf
depression
anxiety
more anxiety recommendations in a post
adhd
eating-disorders

[Nicky]

Hi, i'm Nicky, I lurrrve reading, especially whimsical light escapism stuff. I suffered from OCD, GAD and Bulimia for over 10 years, and studying and understanding my conditions helped towards my recovery. I have been better for a while now, however my teen daughter has ADHD and I need to now find the best books I can to help her as I currently feel like everything I say is making things harder for her. Any book recommendations welcome!! Thanks

[Di]

Nicky wrote: "Hi, i'm Nicky, I lurrrve reading, especially whimsical light escapism stuff. I suffered from OCD, GAD and Bulimia for over 10 years, and studying and understanding my conditions helped towards my r..."

Welcome, Nicky! ADHD shelf is here.

[Nicky]

Di wrote: "Nicky wrote: "Hi, i'm Nicky, I lurrrve reading, especially whimsical light escapism stuff. I suffered from OCD, GAD and Bulimia for over 10 years, and studying and understanding my conditions helpe..."

Brilliant, thank you!!

[Manjai]

Manjai Arun

Hello Everyone, I am Arun. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2009 and I can able to successfully overcome in last couple of years, Wanted to write a book to share my experience. This is not a definitive guide to overcome bipolar disorder. Just sharing my experience, If you want to review the book, I can run a book promotion for free of cost for a month. Let me know. The main objective of the book is to help others not to make money.

https://www.amazon.com/Software-Engin...

[Bertalan]

Hi folks,
I'm Bertalan, the author of Believe, Live, RUn, which is about my unlike journey from a village to becaome a biomedical engineer.

In a nutshell, I was raised up in a small village in Hungary. On my way sometimes spiced with desperate situations, finally I graduated in 2018 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) as an engineer. My disease and commitment inspired me to interconnect my engineer job with my personal contact and also the healthcare: by going on with my studies, I obtained master degree at the joint biomedical engineer programme of the BME and Semmelweis University.

I've written a book about my story, inlcuding cancer, sport, health and engineering aspects.
Please, check it out on my page, if you are interested in these topics.

Give me a feedback, drop me a message about you opinion!:)

Best wishes,
Bertalan

Believe, Live, Run: A story about having faith

[Bertalan]

Marina (Sonnenbarke) wrote: "Hi Paul, welcome! I tried mindfulness some years ago, and although I'm not practising it anymore, I found it was somewhat useful. Of course you'd have to practise it every day for it to work properly."

What is your best practice for being in the state of mindfullness?:)

[Katie]

Hi everyone!

I'm Katie. New to GoodReads, I don't know why I didn't sign up years ago! I love to read and have a pretty eclectic taste in fiction and non-fiction.

I live with bipolar disorder and my first book about this mental illness has just been published. I'll be promoting 'Living at the Speed of Light' in the Author's Corner :)

Looking forward to chatting with you all!

[Bertalan]

Katie wrote: "Hi everyone!

I'm Katie. New to GoodReads, I don't know why I didn't sign up years ago! I love to read and have a pretty eclectic taste in fiction and non-fiction.

I live with bipolar disorder an..."

Nice choice to join:)
Greetings!

[Di]

Welcome, Manjai & Bertalan & Katie!

[Bertalan]

Di wrote: "Welcome, Manjai & Bertalan & Katie!"

Thanks for the kind welcome!

[[deleted user]]

Hello everyone!

I'm Ed

I'm the author of a book

I suffer from Schizophrenia

I look forward to participating in this community

[Emilee]

Hello. My name is Emilee. My 29th birthday was last week and I cope with adhd, generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, and Trichotillomania. Reading is my favorite hobby as it calms me down. My favorite genres are mystery, suspense, thriller, horror, and true crime.

[Di]

Welcome, Ed & Emilee!

[Maya]

Hello! My name is Maya. I'll try not to get into my entire psychological profile, but I have adhd and ocd as well as generalized anxiety disorder and have been informally diagnosed with autism and depression as well. I have always struggled with reading, but it is something that I really enjoy, and I want to try to read more often and get more into different book series. My favorite genres generally are science fiction, mystery, thriller, fantasy, and anything nonfiction history or music history related. I also really like comic books too. I joined this group because I hope to start reading more and hopefully get some recommendations for new books. Also, mental health and disability representation in media is something that really interests me, and I'm interested in psychology too and talking to people like me I guess, so a mental health themed bookclub seems like a good fit :)

[Di]

Maya wrote: "Hello! My name is Maya. I'll try not to get into my entire psychological profile, but I have adhd and ocd as well as generalized anxiety disorder and have been informally diagnosed with autism and ..."

Welcome, Maya! Please do look around our bookshelf (tutorial how to use bookshelf) and look for the tags and keywords you just mentioned in your post. I would usually direct link all the related booktags, but you have so many interests lol. I also read a wide range of things, hope you like our lil book nest :)

[LJ]

Hi everyone. Thanks for having me. I'm really glad to have found this group on Good Reads!

I'm Jo or Joanna. I'm from the UK. I have suffered with mental illness for many years. I have often been misdiagnosed unfortunately. I definitely have a confirmed PTSD diagnosis which there is no doubt about but I believe I have Generalised Anxiety Disorder as well as Major Depressive Disorder or potentially Bipolar Type 2...it's complicated!!

I have spent enough of my life in psychiatric units which has been really hard.

I really enjoy reading thrilers and romance novels, as well as non fiction including memoirs and anything mental health-related/inspired or self help/development or anything psychology related! I am hoping to broaden my reading too though!

I probably will leave it there for now but I really appreciate this group even exists and that I found it and have already discovered some books to add to my Want To Read list!! I'm new here and don't really know how this all works! But thank you for having me :) x

[Skylar]

Hi everyone! My name is Skylar and I am a college student and mental health activist. I've struggled a lot with perfectionism and more recently anxiety. The past year has really tested my mental health, like many others, from COVID to my parent's separating. Now, I really want to immerse myself more in the field to help others and learn more about the community.

I look forward to learning and growing with you all! Also thank you to those who shared more of their story in these introductions.

[Di]

Joanna wrote: "Hi everyone. Thanks for having me. I'm really glad to have found this group on Good Reads!

I'm Jo or Joanna. I'm from the UK. I have suffered with mental illness for many years. I have often been ..."

Welcome, Joanna! Some links that might expand your to-read-list:

how to use bookshelf
PTSD
Anxiety
Depression
Bipolar
thrillers
memoirs
nonfiction
self-help
psychology

[Di]

Skylar wrote: "Hi everyone! My name is Skylar and I am a college student and mental health activist. I've struggled a lot with perfectionism and more recently anxiety. The past year has really tested my mental he..."

Welcome, Skylar! Covid and lockdowns have also made connecting with others so much harder, we are isolated in all the ways.. Hoping everyone can get vaccinated and stay safe!

[Di]

Bae wrote: "Hello everyone,

I'm Bae. I live with clinical depression, anxiety, and PTSD—as of now. :)

Without going into too much detail, my life has mainly been a bunch of hardships strung together. And lif..."

Welcome, Bae! Its great that pandemic has made you more creative! I feel like i have become a snail :D