Mental Health Bookclub discussion

Hi there! I'm working on a thesis project, tentatively titled 'Bibliotherapy and Reading Memoirs of Mental Health.' In sum, the project will look at representations of mental illness in Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression and William Styron's Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. I am interested in talking to some of you who have historically suffered from a mental illness and who also self-identify as readers of mental health/depression autobiographies (not necessarily those two books, but the genre in general), in order to see how interacting with these texts has informed/helped/hurt you and your understanding of your mental illness. If this sounds like you, please reply and I will get in touch with more information!

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I'm intrigued!

I’m interested as well!

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got you and just changed my settings, thanks again Di! xx

Hi Lana! I can't message you, but you're welcome to send me a message on here with your email address, or you can email me directly at n.rettig7799@student.leedsbeckett.ac.uk, and I will get back to you with more information. Thanks so much for your response!

Alison wrote: "I’m interested as well!"

Hi Alison! Again, I can't send you a message directly on here but you're welcome to message me with your email address, or to email me directly at n.rettig7799@student.leedsbeckett.ac.uk. Thanks so much for responding!

Archie wrote: "Hi! I would be happy to help."

Hi Archie! Thanks so much for your response. As I wrote to the others, I can't message you directly on here, but you're welcome to message me with your email address or to contact me directly at n.rettig7799@student.leedsbeckett.ac.uk.

I'd love to help. I work in an academic library and am passionate about all my nf books, mental health and otherwise. I'll send a request.

I'm interested. Hope you're including epilepsy as a condition, as its comorbidity rate with depression is about 30%. It's packed full of psychoses, but we're not allowed to call it a mental illness cuz the shrinks are afraid of us :) . jeffreyleehatcher@gmail.com