Best Books about mental illness

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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,153,894 ratings
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A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness
A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness
by: Tom Davis
3.66 avg rating β€” 1,381 ratings
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I Know This Much Is True
I Know This Much Is True 4.21 avg rating β€” 320,918 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating β€” 767,660 ratings
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 3.90 avg rating β€” 34,825 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating β€” 269,413 ratings
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness 4.06 avg rating β€” 84,152 ratings
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland 3.60 avg rating β€” 771 ratings
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland 3.60 avg rating β€” 771 ratings
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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness 4.27 avg rating β€” 3,993 ratings
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The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides 3.78 avg rating β€” 395,349 ratings
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Prozac Nation
Prozac Nation 3.64 avg rating β€” 63,386 ratings
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She’s Come Undone
She’s Come Undone 3.91 avg rating β€” 357,252 ratings
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The Renaissance Club
The Renaissance Club 4.14 avg rating β€” 135 ratings
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Madness: A Bipolar Life
Madness: A Bipolar Life 4.03 avg rating β€” 14,674 ratings
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Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors 3.77 avg rating β€” 400,432 ratings
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression 4.19 avg rating β€” 15,444 ratings
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A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind 4.13 avg rating β€” 134,374 ratings
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Still Alice
Still Alice 4.32 avg rating β€” 355,948 ratings
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The Prince of Tides
The Prince of Tides 4.26 avg rating β€” 213,988 ratings
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The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit 4.01 avg rating β€” 710 ratings
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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities 3.99 avg rating β€” 90,419 ratings
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating β€” 1,325,669 ratings
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Autistic blessings and Bipolar me.: A Frank and Brutally Honest Diary of a Mother with Bipolar and Her Two Autistic Boys
Autistic blessings and Bipolar me.: A Frank and Brutally Honest Diary of a Mother with Bipolar and Her Two Autistic Boys 4.17 avg rating β€” 404 ratings
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If the Cardinal Flies Home
If the Cardinal Flies Home 4.39 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating β€” 338,257 ratings
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The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music 3.92 avg rating β€” 10,501 ratings
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Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities
Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities 4.04 avg rating β€” 4,533 ratings
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The Double Bind
The Double Bind 3.64 avg rating β€” 30,338 ratings
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Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl 3.91 avg rating β€” 3,884 ratings
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The Madonnas of Leningrad
The Madonnas of Leningrad 3.78 avg rating β€” 18,560 ratings
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The Outsider: A Journey Into My Father's Struggle With Madness
The Outsider: A Journey Into My Father's Struggle With Madness 3.94 avg rating β€” 261 ratings
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My Heart Stopped Beating
My Heart Stopped Beating
by: Chamed
3.42 avg rating β€” 153 ratings
32.
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls 3.90 avg rating β€” 4,704 ratings
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A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness 3.62 avg rating β€” 224 ratings
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Scar
Scar 3.40 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
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Check Mates: A Collection of Fiction, Poetry and Artwork About Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, by People with OCD
Check Mates: A Collection of Fiction, Poetry and Artwork About Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, by People with OCD 4.50 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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Entangled in Darkness
Entangled in Darkness 3.48 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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Sanity, Madness and the Family
Sanity, Madness and the Family 4.19 avg rating β€” 466 ratings
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Shaken: A Story of Emotional Abuse and Depression
Shaken: A Story of Emotional Abuse and Depression 4.25 avg rating β€” 40 ratings
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No Way Out But Through: One Man's Journey from Mental Illness to Clarity and Strength of Soul
No Way Out But Through: One Man's Journey from Mental Illness to Clarity and Strength of Soul 4.22 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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Dream Brother
Dream Brother 3.83 avg rating β€” 35 ratings
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Looking Over Your Shoulder
Looking Over Your Shoulder 3.75 avg rating β€” 52 ratings
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The Box Of Mirrors
The Box Of Mirrors 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Paper Souls
Paper Souls 4.18 avg rating β€” 68 ratings
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On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After it Happened
On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After it Happened 3.64 avg rating β€” 259 ratings
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A Tundra Tale
A Tundra Tale 4.15 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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Tranquility
Tranquility 4.28 avg rating β€” 71 ratings
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Conditions
Conditions 3.70 avg rating β€” 181 ratings
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2005 - Thanks for the Vodka
2005 - Thanks for the Vodka
by: Harpie
3.94 avg rating β€” 289 ratings
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Before You Break
Before You Break 4.02 avg rating β€” 235 ratings
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Lithium for Medea
Lithium for Medea 3.99 avg rating β€” 507 ratings
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When My Soul Bleeds Words
When My Soul Bleeds Words 4.73 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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I Am Schizophrenic: Poetry From A Beautiful Brain
I Am Schizophrenic: Poetry From A Beautiful Brain 4.46 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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W-3
W-3 3.63 avg rating β€” 449 ratings
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Dream Brother
Dream Brother 3.83 avg rating β€” 35 ratings
56.
The Only Alien on the Planet
The Only Alien on the Planet 4.30 avg rating β€” 3,003 ratings
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Hannah: My True Story of Drugs, Cutting, and Mental Illness
Hannah: My True Story of Drugs, Cutting, and Mental Illness 3.46 avg rating β€” 142 ratings
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Veronika Decides to Die
Veronika Decides to Die 3.73 avg rating β€” 237,048 ratings
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Yes, No, & the Infinity in Between
Yes, No, & the Infinity in Between it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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A Scanner Darkly
A Scanner Darkly 4.03 avg rating β€” 108,213 ratings
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Deviation (Breaking the Pattern, #1)
Deviation (Breaking the Pattern, #1) 3.80 avg rating β€” 55 ratings
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Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D
Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D 3.46 avg rating β€” 749 ratings
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This Stranger My Son a Mothers Story
This Stranger My Son a Mothers Story 3.90 avg rating β€” 79 ratings
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Ruby (Between the Cracks, #1)
Ruby (Between the Cracks, #1) 4.05 avg rating β€” 123 ratings
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Devil in the Details
Devil in the Details 3.58 avg rating β€” 4,745 ratings
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Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic
Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic 4.03 avg rating β€” 787 ratings
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Wintergirls
Wintergirls 3.96 avg rating β€” 124,794 ratings
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Mystic River
Mystic River 4.17 avg rating β€” 159,004 ratings
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Stand Alone
Stand Alone 4.28 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction
A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction 3.80 avg rating β€” 1,907 ratings
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My Lobotomy: A Memoir
My Lobotomy: A Memoir 3.76 avg rating β€” 14,250 ratings
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A Mind That Found Itself: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery
A Mind That Found Itself: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery 3.77 avg rating β€” 492 ratings
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More than the Madness: A Memoir
More than the Madness: A Memoir really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness 4.24 avg rating β€” 4,624 ratings
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
The Housekeeper and the Professor 4.05 avg rating β€” 91,315 ratings
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Fallible: A Memoir of a Young Physician’s Struggle with Mental Illness
Fallible: A Memoir of a Young Physician’s Struggle with Mental Illness 3.93 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
78.
Turn of Mind
Turn of Mind 3.64 avg rating β€” 14,996 ratings
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Broken Pieces and the God Who Mends Them: Schizophrenia through a Mother's Eyes
Broken Pieces and the God Who Mends Them: Schizophrenia through a Mother's Eyes 4.66 avg rating β€” 113 ratings
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Left Neglected
Left Neglected 3.98 avg rating β€” 80,136 ratings
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness 4.32 avg rating β€” 22,258 ratings
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While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence 4.27 avg rating β€” 15,945 ratings
83.
Like Mother, Like Son: From the Deepest Despair of Mental Illness to the Grittiest End-Of-Life Battle with Metabolic Syndrome
Like Mother, Like Son: From the Deepest Despair of Mental Illness to the Grittiest End-Of-Life Battle with Metabolic Syndrome 4.23 avg rating β€” 81 ratings
84.
Nick Drake: The Life
Nick Drake: The Life 4.56 avg rating β€” 441 ratings
85.
Ordinary People
Ordinary People 3.93 avg rating β€” 22,723 ratings
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The Story of Beautiful Girl
The Story of Beautiful Girl 3.94 avg rating β€” 27,240 ratings