Mental Health


How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay
The Bridge Back to You
I Love You Don't Die
The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts
The Plans I Have for You
One Word, Six Letters
Right as Rain
The ADHD Field Guide for Adults
Shelved Hearts (Hearts of Willlowrun, #1)
Lightguard (Daughter of Sun Duology #1)
Need You Close (Second Chance Ranch, #3)
SAVING THE ANGEL OF DEATH : VOLUME 2 (Michaelson Family)
The Blue Dress
King of My Heart: A Hockey, Lovers-to-Enemies-to-Lovers, Small Town, Uncovered Romance (Games of Love Book 2)
Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on TikTok
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
The Mad Wife
Saving 6 (Boys of Tommen, #3)
Redeeming 6 (Boys of Tommen, #4)
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Taming 7 (Boys of Tommen, #5)
Law Maker (Aristocrats of London, #1)
Unbound (The Undone, #3)
Releasing 10 (Boys of Tommen, #6)
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Blue Sisters
If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me, #2)
Hello Beautiful
Upward Bound
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
397 books — 423 voters
Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert  WhitakerThe Birth of the Clinic by Michel FoucaultI Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldMad in America by Robert  WhitakerThe Creation of Psychopharmacology by David Healy
Critical Psychiatry and Mad Studies
204 books — 51 voters

Room by Emma DonoghueThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best "REAL" Psychological Fiction
150 books — 247 voters
Speak by Laurie Halse AndersonA Walk Between Raindrops by Amalie JahnThe Program by Suzanne YoungThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Best Mental Health Books for Teens
164 books — 164 voters

Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. WatsonThe Maze Runner by James DashnerVoid by David StaniforthStill Alice by Lisa GenovaThe Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Amnesia and Memory Loss Fiction
440 books — 359 voters

The Bell Jar
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Turtles All the Way Down
All the Bright Places
I'm Glad My Mom Died
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Girl in Pieces
Girl, Interrupted
Thirteen Reasons Why
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Reasons to Stay Alive
Every Last Word

Mark Fisher
Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect). In the 1960s and 1970s, radical theory and politics (Laing, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, etc.) coalesced around extreme mental conditions such as schizophrenia, arguing, for instance, that madness was not a natural, but a political, category. But what is needed now is a politicization of much more common ...more
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Susanna Kaysen
Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health. ...more
Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

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