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
Someone to Daydream About
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)
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

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyI Have to Call Someone Mama by Tammy Eady WalkerEverything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeWithout MAlice by Amesbury ClarkeMore To Life by Jacob Lasher
Best Books On Mental Health
295 books — 228 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

All the Bright Places by Jennifer NivenA Walk Between Raindrops by Amalie JahnPhoebe Unfired by Amalie JahnSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonBeware The Smart Kids by Matthew J. Kushin
YA Books about Mental Health
136 books — 113 voters
Shutter Island by Dennis LehaneOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenDoctors in Hell by Janet E. MorrisTainted Shadows by Kendrick Sims
Evil Hospitals and Asylums
107 books — 143 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?

Pete Walker
Perfectionism is the unparalleled defense for emotionally abandoned children. The existential unattainability of perfection saves the child from giving up, unless or until, scant success forces him to retreat into the depression of a dissociative disorder, or launches him hyperactively into an incipient conduct disorder. Perfectionism also provides a sense of meaning and direction for the powerless and unsupported child. In the guise of self-control, striving to be perfect offers a simulacrum of ...more
Pete Walker

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