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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorFirst Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple
Cameron West · 354 pages
Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface
Martha Manning · 200 pages
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Marya Hornbacher · 301 pages
Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and ultimately, any sen
Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Sally Brampton · 336 pages
A successful magazine editor and prize-winning journalist, Sally Brampton launched Elle magazine in the UK in 1985. But behind the successful, glamorous career was a story that many of her friends and colleagues knew nothing about--her ongoing struggle with severe depression and alcoholism. Brampton's is a candid, honest telling of how she was finally able to "address the elephant in the room," an
The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
Joan Frances Casey, Lynn Wilson · 320 pages
Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
Brooke Shields · 226 pages
When Brooke Shields welcomed her newborn daughter, Rowan Francis, into the world, a crippling depression followed. In DOWN CAME THE RAIN, Brooke writes about the tribulations, depression, and, ultimately, the triumphs that happened before and after the birth. With a knowledgeable voice and a self-deprecating sense of humor, Brooke discusses her battle with postpartum depression, a disorder that ha
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
Mark Vonnegut · 257 pages
"The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s - a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, cherished dog, and prized jalopy - and then the nervous breakdowns in all their slow-motion intimacy, the taste of mortality and opportunity for humor they provided, and the grim despair they afforded
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Kay Redfield Jamison · 223 pages
From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating
Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
Daniel B. Smith · 212 pages
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.
Spare
Prince Harry · 410 pages
A FRACTURED MIND: MY LIFE WITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER
Robert B. Oxnam · 285 pages
A Mother's Story
Rosie Batty, Bryce Corbett · 336 pages
Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl
Marguerite Sechehaye · 192 pages
This is the astonishing memoir of a young woman called only “Renee,” whose descent into schizophrenia began at the age of five. Written with a diamond-sharp precision that lends it an eerie power, it tells the story of Renee’s long sojourn in what she calls “The Land of Enlightenment" or “The Country of Tibet” and of her gradual and painstaking return to “wonderful reality.”
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
Mark Lukach · 320 pages
"A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love. Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. The fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Jenny Lawson · 318 pages
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husban
Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life
Melody Moezzi · 288 pages
"With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences with both clinical and cultural bipolarity. Melody Moezzi was born to Persian parents at the height of the Islamic Revolution and raised amid a vibrant, loving, and gossipy Iranian diaspora in the American heartland. When at eighteen, she began battling a severe physical illness, her community stepp
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
John Elder Robison · 304 pages
Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits--an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)--had earned him the label "social deviant." No guidance came from his mother, who conversed with light fixtures, or his father
An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
Emma Woolf · 320 pages
Life Inside: A Memoir
Mindy Lewis · 368 pages
Sociopath
Patric Gagne · 368 pages
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan · 288 pages
The book narrates Cahalan's issues with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and the process by which she was diagnosed with this form of encephalitis. She wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the events of the previous month, during which time she would have violent episodes and delusions. Her eventual diagnosis is made more difficult by various physicians misdiagnosing her with several theories s
Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom
Sara Benincasa · 263 pages
A comedian's account of her battle with agoraphobia.
The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar
Terri Cheney
Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family
Mariel Hemingway, Ben Greenman · 335 pages
A moving, compelling memoir about growing up and escaping the tragic legacy of mental illness, suicide, addiction, and depression in one of America's most famous families: the Hemingways.