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mental health books recs from a psych major
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items Stories with mental health at the heart — some heavy, some hopeful, all unforgettable. They’ll shatter you, but in the best way. Books that don’t shy away from the tough stuff — anxiety, grief, depression, healing — but also remind us we’re never rea...
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a girl with OCD who's hiding her condition from everyone around her makes a new friend at school who opens doors to a while new world for her
Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
a coming of age story about a boy suffering from PTSD
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
a girl desperate to d!e is so scared to do that alone, so she finds a website where you can find a su!c!de partner for yourself
My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape ...
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven(Paperback)
Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself....
The Midnight Library (GMA Book Club Pick) by Matt Haig[Paperback]
Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressu...
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini(Paperback)
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your fathe...
Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow(Paperback)
a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh(Paperback)
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.
The Vegetarian by Han Kang(Paperback)
Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authoritie...
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman(Paperback)
Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell(Paperback)
I'm not crazy. I don't see what the big deal is about what happened. But apparently someone does think it's a big deal because here I am. I bet it was my mother. She always overreacts.
Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford, Paperback
A reclusive woman's carefully curated life is upended when new friends and an estranged sister force her to confront the world outside her door.
Meredith, Alone by Claire Alexander
memoir
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook co...
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy(Hardcover)
The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson(Paperback)
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as reno...
Girl, Interrupted: A Memoir by Susanna Kaysen, Paperback
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath(Paperback)
a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest:
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life.
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Conversations with My Psychiatrist