Mental Illness

Books about the internal struggles people must face when confronted with mental illnesses or mental disorders.

New Releases Tagged "Mental Illness"

This Is Me: A Reckoning
Mercy Hill
Nerve Damage
Boring Asian Female
Anxietyland
Glitched Fates & Stolen Mates (The Killigrew Street Case Files #3)
This Is Me: A Reckoning
Sociopath
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
You'd Be Home Now
His Juliet (Empire of Royals, #2)
The Secrets of Us
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
Silent Flames (Dark & Silent Night, #4)
The Glass Girl
Adelaide
We Could Be Rats
Anxietyland
The Homemaker (The Chain of Lakes #1)
Night Watch
Imaginary Strangers (Dangerous Strangers, #1)
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse AndersonJust Listen by Sarah DessenPerfect by Natasha FriendIdentical by Ellen HopkinsKeeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
YA Eating Disorder Fiction
169 books — 523 voters
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse AndersonWasted by Marya HornbacherUnbearable Lightness by Portia de RossiJust Listen by Sarah DessenThin by Lauren Greenfield
Best Eating Disorder Books
468 books — 1,003 voters

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonWonder by R.J. PalacioOut of My Mind by Sharon M. DraperHating Jesse Harmon by Robin MimnaPuddle Jumping by Amber L.  Johnson
Disability-positive stories
504 books — 344 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Transgressive Fiction
894 books — 974 voters

Brain on Fire by Susannah CahalanWithout MAlice by Amesbury ClarkeEverything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Day the Music Died by Blair Evans
Madness Real and Imagined
66 books — 113 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 ClarkeInvisible Wounds by John Boyle
Best Books On Mental Health
298 books — 241 voters

The Bell Jar
All the Bright Places
Girl, Interrupted
Turtles All the Way Down
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Thirteen Reasons Why
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Wintergirls
Challenger Deep
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Made You Up
Every Last Word
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

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Marsha M. Linehan
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.
Marsha Linehan

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good. ...more
Theodore Kaczynski

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Mental Illness. Eating Disorders. Sexual Assault. Domestic Violence. So many issues come with s…more
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Mental Illness Support Group Hello, readers and book lovers alike! Welcome to the Mental Illness Support Group. You can talk …more
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