Depression


The Bell Jar
Thirteen Reasons Why
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Reasons to Stay Alive
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Speak
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
All the Bright Places
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
The Catcher in the Rye
A Little Life
Barbara Kingsolver
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. ...more
Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

Elizabeth Wurtzel
I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Just like the Cheshire cat, someday I will suddenly leave, but the artificial warmth of my smile, that phony, clownish curve, the kind you see on miserably sad people and villains in Disney movies, will remain behind as an ironic remnant. I am the girl you see in the photograph from some party someplace or some picnic in the park, the one who is in fac ...more
Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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