Mental Disorders


Turtles All the Way Down
Girl, Interrupted
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Made You Up
The Bell Jar
Every Last Word
All the Bright Places
Wintergirls
It's Kind of a Funny Story
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Challenger Deep
When We Collided
A Little Life
The Silent Patient
Girl in Pieces
From Doctor to Healer by Erica M. ElliottDevil in the Details by Jennifer TraigWe Were a Nice Normal Family by Patricia A. GrenellePassing for normal by Amy S. WilenskyDisrupter by Cornelia E.  Davis
Best OCD Memoirs
37 books — 59 voters

Confessions Of An Honest Man by Arthur RoschThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathWithout MAlice by Amesbury Clarke1984 by George OrwellFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL READS
169 books — 164 voters

Jon Ronson
The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99...There are currently 374 mental disorders. I bought the book...and leafed through it...I closed the manual. "I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones. ...more
Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

Shannon L. Alder
You can't compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in without mental orders. Your dealing with symptoms and until you understand that you will always try to find sane explanations among insane behaviors. You will always have unreachable standards and disappointments. If you want to survive in a marriage to someone that has a disorder you have to judge their actions from a place of realistic expectations in regards to that person's upbringing and diag ...more
Shannon L. Alder

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