mental health

The author describes her two-year stay at a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele and for its progressive methods of treatment.

Stacy Pershall provides an account of her life growing up different in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, a predominantly Baptist community of one thousand in the 1970s, discussing her battles with anorexia and bulimia, her breakdowns and suicide attempts, her diagnosis of bipolar disorder, her struggles with the mental health care system, and the cure she found through Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, combined with a mood-stabilizing medication and body modification.

Chelsea Rae Swiggett describes the impact her social anxiety had on her life as she struggled to fit in at school and shares how she finally learned to accept her limitations and become more comfortable in her own skin and while dealing with others.

Hannah Westberg chronicles her battles with mental illness, drug abuse, and cutting, describing how she survived rehab and therapy and discovered the tools she needed for coping and living a normal, happy life.

From New York Times bestselling author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong comes an honest and irreverent memoir?reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Brain on Fire?about her experience as one of only a few people to participate in an experimental treatment for depression involving ten rounds of a chemically induced coma approximating brain death.

A memoir by a former British National Heath Service employee and single parent describes her battles with early onset Alzheimer's, the management techniques she has developed to maintain her independence, and her efforts to make sense of her shifting world.

"A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side--in this powerful and inspiring memoir."--Provided by publisher.

The author presents a relatable, darkly comic memoir about her lifelong struggles with anxiety, tracing her upbringing by a bohemian mother and sanitized, affluent father in a transforming New York City.

An exploration of posttraumatic stress disorder and how it affects the life of the author, a war correspondent and former Marine, and other PTSD survivors, looking at the scientific, literary, and cultural history of the illness.

A sensory portrait of an autistic mind From childhood, Laura James knew she was different. She struggled to cope in a world that often made no sense to her, as though her brain had its own operating system. It wasn't until she reached her forties that she found out why: Suddenly and surprisingly, she was diagnosed with autism. With a touching and searing honesty, Laura challenges everything we think we know about what it means to be autistic. Married with four children and a successful journalist, Laura examines the ways in which autism has shaped her career, her approach to motherhood, and her closest relationships. Laura's upbeat, witty writing offers new insight into the day-to-day struggles of living with autism, as her extreme attention to sensory detail--a common aspect of her autism--is fascinating to observe through her eyes. As Laura grapples with defining her own identity, she also looks at the unique benefits neurodiversity can bring. Lyrical and lush, Odd Girl Out shows how being different doesn't mean being less, and proves that it is never too late for any of us to find our rightful place in the world.