mentally ill

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mentally ill

Arkham Asylum

a serious house on serious earth
2004
Batman trades himself for the inmates held hostage in Gotham's Arkham Asylum by the Joker, the Mad Hatter, Two-Face, Killer Croc, Clayface, Scarecrow, and Poison Ivy, and faces the possibility of going insane as he battles old enemies.

Monkey mind

a memoir of anxiety
2012
In "Monkey Mind," Daniel Smith brilliantly articulates what it is like to live with anxiety, defanging the disease with humor, traveling through its demonic layers, evocatively expressing both its painful internal coherence and its absurdities.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

2008
The struggle for power between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution leads to a climax of hate, violence and death.

At wit's end

what you need to know when a loved one is diagnosed with addiction and mental illness
2007
Provides advice for family members and loved ones of those diagnosed with both addiction and psychiatric illnesses simultaneously, and discusses treatment approaches, and other related topics.

Hope and recovery

a mother-daughter story about anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and manic depression
1992
Becky Thayne and her mother alternate in describing how Becky suffered as a young woman from manic depression, anorexia, and bulimia and how she eventually recovered.

The return of Skeleton Man

2006
When Molly and her parents attend a conference at Mohonk Mountain House, Molly begins to fear that she is being watched by the very man who kidnapped and tried to kill them all the previous year.

American psychosis

how the federal government destroyed the mental illness treatment system
2014
Examines the failings of America's mental health treatment system, focusing on the federal government's closing of institutions.

Keeping secrets

2009
Friends Flora, Ruby, Olivia, and Nikki are excited to meet the new girl, Willow, who has moved in next door but Willow has a family secret that keeps her from becoming friends with the girls. As the girls get to know Willow, they learn Willow's mother has a mental illness.

Memories of summer

2000
In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to a town in Michigan and her older sister Summer begins descending into mental illness.

The invisible man

2008
A quiet English country village is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who keeps his face hidden and his back to everyone.

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