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Fictional Stories for Mental Health Awareness Month
9
items normalize the experiences of fictional characters with mental health issues--whether the condition is explicitly diagnosed, heavily implied, somewhat implied, not even mentioned, etc
Sections
2
women unraveling
adults realizing their childhoods were not that
women unraveling
List in progress as I catalog the 400+ books I've read over the past few years !
millennial ennui, everyone was awful but i didn't dnf, corporate cosplay, chicago, mental illness probably, quick read
The New Me
unhinged women, toxic relationships, unreliable narrator, influencers, things go wrong in the city
A Touch of Jen
not for everyone but absolutely for me, hollywood, pls review tw list, celebrity life goes sideways, rich people
Postcards from the Edge
holy tw batman, monstrous mothers, family trauma, unreliable narrator, unhinged women, diaspora, immigrant daughter
Bad Fruit: A Novel
holy tw batman, hollywood, unhinged women, family lore, monstrous mothers, mental illness, toxic relationships, classic, joan didion
Play It As It Lays: A Novel
major tw, so pls proceed with caution. tags include: dark, hella dark, unhinged women, childhood trauma, monstrous mothers, girlie pop returns to her hometown, whomst amongst us did the murder
Sharp Objects: A Novel
holy tw batman, monstrous mothers, family lore, literary fiction, michigan, this changed my brain chemistry, sisters
The Virgin Suicides: A Novel (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition)
adults realizing their childhoods were not that
holy tw batman, childhood trauma, mental illness, addiction, women surviving men, hella dark, young adult
Girl in Pieces
classic, multiple timelines, the monsters are human, family trauma, family lore, sisters, women surviving men, dark and surreal, love when the scenery is also a character, childhood trauma, mental illness, unhinged women
The Haunting of Hill House