#books about mental health

[gallantindie]

✨️Cover reveal for SUGAR PEOPLE by Oliver Ferrie✨️

Thanks to @shea-parfait for the HEAVENLY artwork!

The book releases on April 4th 🎊

(the blurb reads: Kestrel has a lot to be worried about.

His best friend Tala has been struck by a severe mental illness, attempting suicide over the winter break. She has developed an obsession with making little sculptures she will not let anyone touch.

Meanwhile, Kestrel is struggling at university. His artwork has his teachers concerned, and he can’t explain any of it. But it’s not just him — all his friends are feeling strange this term, although none of them can place why.

After a chance meeting with the university’s charismatic religious counsellor, Daran Bailey, Kestrel becomes drawn back in to a world he had once left behind. As the term marches on, his dreams grow more uncomfortable, and he feels like he’s going crazy, until at long last, Tala lets Kestrel in on her secret…

This book contains depictions of abuse. Read at your own discretion. Treat yourself kindly.)

#authors of tumblr #books #indie publishing #magical realism #literary fiction #gay protagonist #time travel fic #dark fantasy #sugar people #oliver ferrie #book publishing #books about mental health #books about trauma #mental health fiction #lgbt fiction #queer fiction #books about tabletop gaming

[taylorinlit]

"meredith, alone" by claire alexander

read: december 2022

time taken to read: 4 days

disclaimer: not quite a review

"meredith, alone," was bittersweet from start to finish. i followed meredith's journey, front to back, in trying to leave her home after three years hiding from an inciting incident: being r*ped by her brother-in-law. healing from a traumatic childhood as well, mer finds support in her friends, sister, a volunteer foundation, chatrooms, and her cat. it made me pang for that crippingly human experience of anxiety, depression, ptsd, and so much more that we simply do not talk about enough. definitely would read again.

buy it here:

#meredith alone #claire alexander #literature #new fiction #fiction #creative writing #english creative writing #mental health #books #books and reading #reading #books about mental health

[cheshirelibrary]

8 Books To Read for Mental Health Awareness Month 

[via Book Riot]

Reading books about mental health struggles can help people feel seen and less alone. Whether fiction or nonfiction, these works illustrate the wide range of experiences of characters grappling with mental health while trying to get from day to day. No two stories are alike. Each experience is unique, but all share the universal qualities of pushing for something better, for learning how to better care for themselves or their loved ones.

Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Broken (in the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Rust: a Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach

I’m Telling the Truth But I’m Lying by Bassey Ikpi

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

...

Click through to see more titles.

#cheshire library #mental health awareness month #books about mental health #book list

[icedcoffee2809]

Hey y'all i need your help here. I have a class in school where we have to finish a project by the end of the year and we're making an e-book about mental health. my part is about literature recommendations and i looked up a bunch of books that deal with mental health but i haven't read some of them so i don't know if they're good and more importantly if the representation is good. I'll send the titles + authors and if any of you have read one of them i'd apprechiate it if you sent me a dm and your opinion on the book <3

the books are:

- the bell jar (sylvia plath)

- girl interrupted (susanna kaysen)

- speak (laurie halse anderson)

- my heart and other black holes (jasmine warga)

- all the bright places (jennifer niven)

- every last word (tamara ireland stone)

- its kind of a funny story (ned vizzini)

- no longer human (osamu dazai)

- the catcher in the rye (j.d. salinger)

- how to disappear (sharon huss roat)

#books #mental health #reading #book recommendations #books about mental health

[thebestbookrecommendations]

Go Ask Alice - Beatrice Sparks

It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life.

Read if You Like:

Young Adult/Mature Teen

Contemporary Fiction

Books about Mental Health

Books about Drug Use

Coming of Age Stories

Recommended if You Enjoy:

Ellen Hopkins (Identical, Crank)

Laurie Halse Anderson (Wintergirls, Speak)

Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

3/5

#go ask Alice #Beatrice sparks #book recommendations #authors #books #what to read #what to read next #libraries #books & libraries #literature #book reading #good books to read #young adult fiction #young adult books #contemporary novels #contemporary fiction #books about mental health #mental health #books about drug use #drug use #coming of age #coming of age stories #identical #ellen hopkins #crank #Laurie Halse Anderson #wintergirls #book list #book lists

[cemeterything]

one bright spot of hope in my miserable life is that ever since i started taking my current antidepressants my memory loss has definitely improved

#🐉 #like i can somewhat trust my own recollections now which is SUCH a huge relief #i can read books again and talk about them! i can tell stories! i can sing the lyrics to my favorite songs! #i can not spend every monent im out and about worrying ive left something behind! #mental health tag

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

♾️ Books for World Autism Month + Neurodiversity Celebration Week

♾️ The last week of March was Neurodiversity Celebration Week. My post is (obviously) late, but April is also World Autism Month (beginning with World Autism Awareness Day on April 2). To generate additional awareness, here are a few books by autistic authors and/or about autistic characters. On the last slide, you'll also find books with additional neurodiversity rep (including characters with ADHD, dyslexia, and OCD).

✨ The Bride Test - Helen Hoang ✨ Daniel, Deconstructed - James Ramos ✨ Tonight We Rule the World - Zack Smedley ✨ Paige Not Found - Jen Wilde ✨ Something More - Jackie Khalilieh ✨ Uncomfortable Labels - Laura Kate Dale ✨ The Luis Ortega Survival Club - Sonora Reyes ✨ Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl - Brianna R. Shrum and Sara Waxelbaum ✨ The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - Andrew Joseph White ✨ The Brightsiders - Jen Wilde ✨ The Boys in the Back Row - Mike Jung ✨ Hating Jesse Harmon - Robin Mimna

✨ Queens of Geek - Jen Wilde ✨ The Maid - Nita Prose ✨ The Heart Principle - Helen Hoang ✨ The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson ✨ Even If We Break - Marieke Nijkamp ✨ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon ✨ Unseelie - Ivelisse Housman ✨ This Could Be Us - Kennedy Ryan ✨ Act Your Age, Eve Brown - Talia Hibbert ✨ The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang ✨ On the Edge of Gone - Corinne Duyvis ✨ Against the Stars - Christopher Hartland

✨ Tell Me How It Ends - Quinton Li ✨ Izzy at the End of the World - K.A. Reynolds ✨ Late Bloomer - Mazey Eddings ✨ Fake It Till You Bake It - Jamie Wesley ✨ Whatever Happens - Micalea Smeltzer ✨ Gimmicks and Glamour - Lauren Melissa Ellzey ✨ Last Call at the Local - Sarah Grunder Ruiz ✨ Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling - Elise Bryant ✨ The Charm Offensive - Alison Cochrun ✨ A Prayer for Vengeance - Leanne Schwartz ✨ Tilly in Technicolor - Mazey Eddings ✨ If Only You - Chloe Liese

#neurodiversity #neurodivergent #world autism day #world autism awareness day #autism #books #book list #book blog #batty about books #battyaboutbooks #mental health

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Batman Annual #25

Before Talia took him in, before he was dunked in the pit to have his memories restored, even when operating purely on survival instinct, he always split a meal with the other homeless people. It may not have been essential to his survival, but caring about and helping other people when he couldn’t even help himself was just always such an intrinsic part of Jason’s core.

#so much so that it prevailed over basic self-preservation #my guy lost 90% of his cognitive function and he’s still out here helping people in any way he can #my post #new headcanon: that’s why he stole all 4 tires. because he wasn’t just feeding himself in crime alley. #or at least he was planning to expand his work now that he had more confidence in his ability to feed and care for himself #I mean he also isn’t the type to brag about his good deeds yk? we all know he was putting up a tough guy façade when Bruce found him #a mutual asked abt Jason’s white streak so I directed them to hush which ofc reminded me of this book #rather than it being exclusively a pit thing imo it makes more sense for it to be a combination of actual health related issues #like the chronic prolonged mental and physical stress he had to endure coupled with the fact that superboy’s punch kickstarted his body #in ways that are unknown to modern science #and then the pit also had a hand in it (probably??) #(imo). like Talia doesn’t have it. neither do Damian or Ra’s or anyone else who’s been in the pit. #jason todd #dc #batman annual 25 #comic panels

[utilitycaster]

I genuinely believe the fact that so many popular Imogen/Laudna fics are no-powers AU is, if not the main cause, at least a factor in why so many people resist or even are hostile towards any interpretation of Imogen that isn't largely sweet and harmless. Like, write the fic you want, but Imogen in particular is someone so fundamentally shaped by her powers that to write a no powers AU is to write what is essentially a completely original character who happens to share her name.

I think it's made even more obviously a factor because many of those fics try to reconstruct aspects of Imogen's personality by giving her anxiety or agoraphobia (or both) but the problem is that those are purely mental illnesses, rather than something that both gives her powers and penalties (again, the X-Men problem). Some real-world mental illnesses cover the symptoms of Imogen's abilities, but none cover the abilities themselves. It's quite literally a removal of agency: they take away what she can (and frequently does) do with her powers, leaving only the negative effects on her behind while eliminating the negative effects she can have on others. No wonder there's this overwhelming push to woobify her from that corner; they've utterly defanged her and are now crying that other people who can still see her fangs (and even like them) are talking about them.

And the thing is, for all I can be negative about fanon, it is, ultimately, fine - so long one can either keep it separate in one's mind from canon or else remain in a particular fanon sandbox. But unfortunately people leave the sandbox, and when other people respond to the canon Imogen, who as of episode 81 (RIP CRStats) has voluntarily used Detect Thoughts/Open Mind 60 times and has openly stated her intent to use it specifically to know what her party members are doing in advance and theoretically prevent it, the fanfic crowd is utterly unable to react to this intelligently. The idea of Imogen they have is sweet girl with severe anxiety and a goth girlfriend. The problem is this construct exists only in their favorite fanfic writers' domestic fluff modern AU no powers setting. And frankly, I'm not interested in talking about that warped mirror version of her when I could have all the fascination, complexity, glory, and agency of the real thing.

#i also think that turning imogen's issues into specifically mental health only is for lack of a better term Not Great. #i remember when she took off the circlet people on twitter compared it to her going off her meds as like. a sympathy thing. #and. while obviously the psychiatric field is not without many flaws and prejudices. generally going off meds is. not a good sign. #i will say i would love to see the no-circlet au in which imogen stops ashton. i don't think that goes well at ALL. #like i don't know if they stick around after that. #cr tag #anyway been thinking about the role of fanfic a lot lately in case you couldn't tell #we are finally admitting the importance of They Would Not Fucking Say That and should embrace it #and i'm obviously thinking quite a lot about the book i just posted about a lot too #it is depressing that people are more comfortable with Girlfailure than Selfish #that a woman is only allowed memeable and sanitized quirky faults. GOD FORBID she want actual power. #(were i to be called selfish by someone i respect i'd feel bad but talk through it. girlfailure though? i'm stabbing them.)

[wehavewords]

“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself.”

Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

#wehavewords #clarice lispector #a breath of life #words #quotes #life quotes #life #quotes about life #true words #book quotes #mental illness #mental health #chronic illness #book inspiration #character inspo

[probablyhuntersmom]

I know Dana and co. would've pushed for the mid-October release date of Thanks to Them because it's close to Halloween, but it's interesting that the official poster release, to kick off the hype,

was in September which is Suicide Prevention month (10th September is World Suicide Prevention Day).

The episode itself was released in October, which is not only our beloved spooky month but also Mental Health Awareness Month (10th October is World Mental Health Day).

It was massively anticipated and was the first of the three specials, and had a profound impact on countless people who felt a connection to the characters, especially Luz and Hunter, at a new level, shedding more light on darkness to create more understanding.

There are allegories of mental health, especially in this part of their arcs (one example is Luz telling the group that she had set the events linked to the Day of Unity into motion, the other is Hunter being possessed), that are truly impressive and which come with fantasy elements.

#loz says stuff #the show has plenty of material to write about from the mental health perspective #plenty of material to match with the books about theoretical orientations that I look to as a practitioner

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Deep Sky

scifi mystery thriller

on a deep space mission traveling from an environmentally devastated earth with hope to restart humanity elsewhere

when they’re halfway, an explosion kills 3 crew and pushes them off course

the only witness is the Alternate who has no specific role, and she has to figure out who caused it & if they might continue to sabotage, while they're figuring out a way to get back on course with limited resources

flips between present and the past: of her childhood and training for the mission, her identity struggles, and relationship with her mother

questions the ethics of ‘restarting’ humanity elsewhere vs putting resources into fixing earth

#the deep sky #yume kitasei #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i really loved this!!!!! #very intense but also a lot of interesting character introspection #love the virtual reality AI aspect!!!! though I do feel like. in the end I was expecting it to go way further with it? #(basically like instead of seeing the inside of the ship all the time they can 'be' in forests or aquariums or whatever) #no romance #(there’s side lesbians; and one flashback scene where she briefly wonders about kissing a random person; that's it) #emotional core about her mother and brother and best friend !! #i like that it gets into the flaws of 'humanity's last hope on another planet' bc like. yeah in real life things....don't work like that... #why is there zero acknowledgement that the concept of every one of them being expected to give birth being extremely fucked up? #like obviously everyone on board is there because they agreed with that but there’s not a single flashback of #when they found out that information; or mention of someone questioning it... #(for example a character mentions that they hid their mental health/use of a therapy animal bc they wouldn't have been let in and the - #eugenics around that is iffy to say the least) #but to me. pregnancy is horrifying and nobody questioning that was weird. #also there’s supposedly 80 people on board but we get to know less than 10 of them which felt a bit strange at points #Also! I love the cover. I can’t find the designer (the book info only credits the internal lllustrator..) #also: bird facts!

[butchspace]

Hello, I am going to discuss my thoughts on content/trigger warnings as someone living with OCD. I am absolutely open to good faith engagement and discussion on this topic.

Having some thoughts on the idea that adding trigger warnings somehow ultimately harms the person with the trigger. They absolutely can create an easy tool to obsessively control your access to the topics/to avoid them, but I’ve always felt it should be the potentially triggered person’s decision on what they were ready to do about it. Uncontrolled exposure is just as capable of causing obsession as is avoidance, in my opinion.

I think of the (terrible telephone retelling of a) case I heard about while discovering recounts of actual lived experiences with OCD.

—The following example discusses intrusive thoughts about domestic violence.—

A woman had an obsession with being was afraid of hitting her boyfriend. Her compulsion was that she would have to hold her arms stiffly by her side. She recognized this as OCD and sought exposure response prevention. Her therapist told her to try and ignore the compulsion, or potentially do the opposite. The woman became so obsessed with healing she forced herself to keep her hands away from her sides (almost obsessively) and constantly checked whether or not she “still wanted to hit him.” In the end, the ERP just became entangled with her obsessions.

It takes so much strength to face these types of problems and practice the mindfulness and grace with yourself to recognize it. It’s something you really need to be ready for because it’s going to take a lot of effort to do the hard thing when the easy thing is right there.

How can we claim it’s best to “force” exposure on someone else? How can we go around vigilante therapising people we have deemed too ill to do it on their own (or just be left alone)?

This is not to say that anyone is bad if they can’t or don’t want to tag things. More just my thoughts about how pushback against that idea can swing too hard into trying to prove not tagging was morality correct.

Some articles that articulate so much of my experience with OCD:

Having No Cure for OCD Is the Cure

Help! I Have OCD About What’s OCD

In the spirit of bodily autonomy, I think we all deserve agency in our lives no matter how “incompetent” other people may think we are. When you’re ready, you’re ready. There’s no healing to be had sitting around thinking you’re broken or lazy or whatever for not being ready to change. We all owe each other the kindness to do what we can in good faith, too.

I started doing too much table setting in the tags, so I’ll put it under a read more, lol.

I recognize that this isn’t very radically (in the abolition vs reform sense) anti-psychiatry, and I do have a complicated relationship with that idea. I recognize that I have a good deal of privilege (particularly among people with more stigmatized/less understood “disorders”) but this framework is the only one I’ve ever been able to access that gives me any insight into myself at all. That isn’t something everyone can afford to do in several senses.

As a physically disabled person, I just connect my experiences with chronic illness and mental illness (which I think can fall under the umbrella of chronic on its own) more and more these days. What truly was the difference between not being able to do something out of pain versus anxiety? Our brains are organs, too. Our thoughts are chemical and hormonal, too.

One of the fondest memories I have of coming to terms with disability was explaining my experience with an autoimmune condition to a bipolar friend, and he replied that we were “chronic illness buddies.” And I felt so understood as someone who has suffered with various types of anxieties for their entire waking life.

#actually ocd #antipsychiatry #i guess maybe this falls in that category? idk #mental health #intrusive thoughts #ocd #as an OCD haver I lean a lot on stuff like the CBT methods used in ERP #just in the first article I link the author (therapist with OCD) talks about getting dumped by the book (DSM) #and it just hits home rlly hard #I have more a take what you want and leave the rest approach to it #ocd tag

[fluentisonus]

idk how people find les mis boring when i'm like tearing my hair out on the verge of tears for most of the hundreds & hundreds of pages the main character is one the page (<- only slightly an exaggeration.)

#remember when i had to stop reading this book for a little while last january or whenever it was bc i was depressed & found his story #so upsetting it was genuinely impacting my mental health lol. (<- compliment on the writing) #anyways i'm rereading. or listening as i sew really. #jvj guy of all time i could literally explode thinking about him too much. REALLY well written. #thoughts

[hella1975]

I CANNOT STAND YOU BITCHES

#rori for being the thing that pushed me over the edge. gloomy for starting this miserable process to begin with. aiaia for egging it on #and everyone else who watched silently rubbing your grubby little hands together #i am going to read the raven king by nora sakavic book no.2 in the infamous all for the game series #this WILL be detrimental to my mental health. i wish i was kidding #aftg #hella reads aftg #<- like last time pls block that tag if u want to avoid spoilers #rori i know you wont listen to me but consider blocking the tag as well like the real impact of aftg happens when you have NO fucking clue #what's happening or what's about to happen #but also ur defo gonna finish trk faster than me if it's anything like how you read tfc so maybe it'll be fine. who knows #keep sending me ur chapter commentaries tho bc they're hilarious. we can compare notes

[scurvgirl]

Essek: *takes weeks and months to research possible local cat pairs will produce a kitten that will suit Caleb*

Caleb: *walking through Rexxentrum one day* *reaches down to what looks like a mud pile and pulls out a hissy kitten* This one. *tucks the still hissing kitten into his coat*

Essek: But it is filthy.

Caleb: Exactly. No one was paying attention to him, but I saw him.

#i have a lot of feelings about caleb adopting more cats. actual cats. even fostering them #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #shadowgast #i had a professor in grad school who fostered kittens #every now and then she'd come to class with pictures asking if any of us wanted a kitten or two #they're good for grad school. good for mental health #i mean. she was right. #anyways. i kinda hc caleb being that kind of professor #'here. have a cat. you feel better now. ja? good. let's look at this book together' #scurv talks cr