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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Pete Earley had no idea. He'd been a journalist for over thirty years, and the author of several award-winning-even bestselling-nonfiction books about crime and punishment and society. Yet he'd always been on the outside looking in. He had no idea what it was like to be on the inside looking out until his son, Mike, was declared mentally ill, and Earley was thrown headlong into the maze of contradictions, disparities, and catch-22s that is America's...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"High school junior Sophie has always had the burden of taking care of her mother, who has bipolar disorder, but after her mother's hospitalization she must learn to cope with estranged family and figure out her own life"--
25) Black-eyed Suzie
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Suzie's stay in a mental hospital helps her tear down the walls of a devastating psychological prison she calls "the box".
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the sharp crags of tiny Tillings Island lies the secret of Izabella Rae Haywood's sixth birthday. That night, her father vanished, taking her voice, and the truth of what really happened along with him"--
Tillings Island, Rhode Island, witnessed the biggest event of Izabella Rae Haywood's life. On her sixth birthday her father left... and took her voice with him. Eight years later in the summer of 1974, Iz and her mother board the ferry to Tillings...
27) Asylum
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Adam is a recently diagnosed schizophrenic and journals to his therapist about family, friends, and first loves as he undergoes a new drug trial for the mental illness that allows him to keep his secret for only so long"--
30) OCDaniel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thirteen-year-old boy's life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder until a girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time and he gets a mysterious note that changes everything.
31) Take shelter
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After a man begins having disturbing visions of storms, he begins building a shelter in his family's yard to protect his wife and daughter.
32) In the blood
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met...
33) The look-alike
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Girl and Justice for Sara comes a thrilling psychological drama about a woman who believes she escaped a brutal murder years ago-but does anyone else believe her? Sienna Scott grew up in the dark shadow of her mother's paranoid delusions. Now, she's returned home to confront her past and the unsolved murder that altered the course of her life. In her mother's shuttered house, an old fear that...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
No one struggling with a mental illness is alone; you, too, can survive and live a life filled with joy and love. Project Semicolon began in 2013 to spread this message of hope. In support of the project, thousands of people all over the world have gotten semicolon tattoos and shared their stories of hardship, growth, and rebirth. At once heartfelt, unflinchingly honest, and eternally hopeful, this collection tells a story of choice: every day you...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Produced by Northwestern University School of Medicine, one of the largest and most distinguished health care systems in the United States, and by Oscar winner, Ira Wohl, the Clinical Diagnosis and the DSM-5 set of videos offers viewers a unique opportunity to see and hear from real-life patients with actual psychiatric disorders. These volunteer patients are both open and honest about their issues and feelings, lending a human face to psychiatric...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Over thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses--anorexia, major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and bipolar disorder. Pathological is the gripping story of what it was like to live with those diagnoses, and the crippling impact each had on her life. It is also a rigorous investigation into the Diagnostic and Statistical...
37) Beating bipolar: how one therapist tackled his illness-- and how what he learned could help you!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beating Bipolar" explains how to emotionally overcome bipolar disorder, sharing insider lessons from a leading expert who also lives with the illness. It will help families, teachers, mental-health professionals, those with bipolar disorder, and anyone looking to learn about it. The book is filled with uplifting stories and techniques to help manage this debilitating illness. With bipolar disorder affecting millions, this book will be the guide to...
38) Crazywise
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Crazy...or wise? Indigenous cultures address "mental illnesses" quite differently from western societies. Are symptoms a 'calling' to grow or just a 'broken brain'? The documentary CRAZYWISE explores what can be learned from people around the world who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience. During a quarter-century documenting indigenous cultures, human-rights photographer and filmmaker Phil Borges often...
Author
Series
Virtue Falls volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Veteran Jacob Denisov lives alone in his small, darkened home, sleepless, starving, blaming himself for the horrors of the past and waiting for the moment when he gathers enough courage to kill himself. When neighbor Madeline Hewitson drives her car through the front wall of his house, she breaks his house--and Jacob's life--wide open. She isn't called "Mad Maddie" for nothing. The survivor of a college dorm massacre, a woman accused of her lover's...
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