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The Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron

Punk Rock & Mental Illness Vol. 1 A Love Story More Stable Th... by Emily Ryan

YA Novels that Poorly Portray Mental Illness

16 books — 10 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Heroes with mental illness

283 books — 161 voters

Best Eating Disorder Books

532 books — 1,012 voters

BEST Psychological Book of 2011

2 books — 3 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Tuskegee Experiments by Michael V. Uschan

Medical and Psychiatric Scandals

77 books — 9 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Mental Illness in Fiction - Before the 21st Century

38 books — 9 voters

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“ Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn bit better about myself than I did about being Citizen West. Citizen West, Citizen Kane, Sugar Ray Robinson, Robinson Crusoe, Robinson miso, miso soup, black bean soup, black sticky soup, black sticky me. Yeah. Inside I was still a fetid and festering corpse covered in sticky blackness, still mired in putrid shame and scorching self-hatred. I could write an 86-page essay comparing the features ...more ”
― Cameron West, First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple

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“ We got through it. Haven made excuses for me to friends, and made an appointment with a terrific doctor, who put me on Effexor, 150 milligrams a day, enough to get my brain straightened out. ”
― Tyler Hamilton, The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

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