Mental Illness category: 868 books

Sakeenah Francis describes her life as a Cinderella story in reverse. She grew up in a well-respected, middle-class African American family. She went to college, was homecoming queen, married, began a career and had children. Then, schizophrenia struck and she lost everything. She went from homecoming...

Kerry Valkyrie Baldock Kelly was born in Kent, England. She was diagnosed with severe ENT problems which included deafness. She had several operations and although she can hear now she continues to suffer from asthma and allergic rhinitis. Kerry struggled through life with extreme shifts in mood until...

When I was diagnosed with mental health disorders, I found out that the medical field for mental illness is a huge world with many different areas, treatments, and medications. There also are no traditional diagnostic methods to know what works best. In the end, it leaves you to yourself to decide...

In 1976, Ben Martini was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A decade later, his brother Olivier was told he had the same disease. For the past thirty years the Martini family has struggled to comprehend and cope with a devastating illness, frustrated by a health care system lacking in resources and empathy,...

There are several types of bipolar disorder; all involve episodes of depression and mania to a degree. Bipolar disorder is a lifelong illness. Episodes of mania and depression eventually can occur again if you don't get treatment. Many people sometimes continue to have symptoms, even after...

What are the long-term psychological costs of violence and war? Journalist Garry Leech draws from his experiences as a war correspondent, his ongoing personal struggle with PTSD and the latest research on this mental illness to provide a powerful and vivid answer to this question. For thirteen years,...

Pat and Sarah had long been friends, not just brother and sister. They supported each other, shared music and movies, and confided in each other as they went through the many challenging stages of adolescence. But something began to change in Pat. He was convinced people were watching him, spying...

An unsentimental yet profoundly moving look at one family’s experience with mental illness. “A haunting, poignant story of a son’s life with, and without, his father. A rare and moving portrait of one of life’s major struggles—the devastation created by severe mental illness.” —John...

This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of schizophrenia—now reissued with a new postscript—follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness. “Sylvia Frumkin” was born in 1948 and began showing...

A Room without Walls is a memoir detailing my life after being diagnosed with a series of mental disorders. The memoir's narrative is stream of consciousness and poetry. The audiences I hope to reach with this novel are those who have mental illness, addiction, and those who have loved ones afflicted...

It's a memoir of Brian's severe struggles associated with coping with a multi-mental **health diagnosis and is full of documented skills, tools and tips he developed as an action plan to cope and manage. The first memoir in a series written to manage chronic illness of body and brain. ** Brian...

In this powerful memoir Susan Ralphe employs sharp storytelling skills honed over a long, newspaper-reporting career to tell her own story of long-term, heart-wrenching bipolar madness. My Bipolar Backpack begins shortly before the first of two stays in mental hospitals and ends as she serves in elective...

Award-winning novelist and poet Gayle Brandeis’s wrenching memoir of her complicated family history and her mother’s suicide Gayle Brandeis’s mother disappeared just after Gayle gave birth to her youngest child. Several days later, her body was found: she had hanged herself in the utility...

This book describes Schizophrenia, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases “I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me.” – Jonathan Harnisch Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices. - Maria Bamford If you talk to God, you...