Welcome to the Jungle: Everything You Wanted to Know about Bipolar But Were Too Freaked Out to Ask

The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know

David J. Miklowitz

A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life

Ayelet Waldman · 242 pages

"In an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, Ayelet Waldman undertook a very private experiment, ingesting 10 micrograms of LSD every three days for a month. This is the story--by turns revealing, courageous, fascinating and funny--of her quietly psychedelic spring, her quest to understand one of our most feared drugs, and her search for a really good day"--

Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner

Julie A. Fast, John D. Preston · 216 pages

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me

Ellen Forney · 256 pages

One of the best memoirs on mental illness. It contains specifics about mania, depression, and bipolar disorder and how brutally numbing depression can be, the dangerous hives of mania and what it is like to undergo therapy and receive medication.

Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness

Suzy Favor Hamilton, Sarah Tomlinson · 304 pages

During the 1990s, three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton was the darling of American track and field. An outstanding runner, a major sports apparel spokesperson, and a happily married wife, she was the model for an active, healthy, and wholesome life. But her perfect facade masked a dark truth: manic depression and bipolar disorder that drove her obsession to perform and win. For years after leav

Manic: A Memoir

Terri Cheney · 245 pages

He wowed critics with his Frank Corso and Leo Waterman series, catapulting to the upper ranks of contemporary crime writers with each riveting new thriller. Now, G.M. Ford is back with a brand-new book, his first stand-alone novel, featuring a man with no name, no past—and at the center of a conspiracy so pervasive he's forced to run from the only home he's ever known—straight into the abyss—in hi

I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help!: How to Help Someone With Mental Illness Accept Treatment

Xavier Francisco Amador · 204 pages

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

Changing My Mind

Margaret Trudeau · 382 pages

"In this deeply moving memoir, Margaret Trudeau speaks with candour and insight about the illness that silently shaped her life -- a life lived often in turbulence and in the public's fascination. Plagued since childhood by extreme moods, Margaret was ill-prepared for the high-profile role into which she was cast at age twenty-two, as Canada's youngest first lady. Captivated by her high spirits, y

Hurry Down Sunshine: A Memoir

Michael Greenberg · 234 pages

Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg's daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's most sweltering months.

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

Kay Redfield Jamison · 384 pages

"The anguished, volatile intensity we associate with the artistic temperament, often described as "a fine madness," has been thought of as a defining aspect of much artistic genius. Now, Kay Jamison's brilliant work, based on years of studies as a clinical psychologist and prominent researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artists who were subject to alternatingly exultant and then melancho

Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke

Patty Duke, Kenneth Turan · 311 pages

Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl

Stacy Pershall · 232 pages

Stacy Pershall grew up depressed and too smart for her own good, a deeply strange girl in Prairie Grove, Arkansas (population 1,000), where the prevailing wisdom was that Jesus healed all. From her days as a thirteen-year-old Jesus freak, through a battle with anorexia and bulimia, her first manic episode at eighteen, and the eventual diagnosis of bipolar disorder and borderline personality disord

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

The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs

Stephen S. Ilardi · 304 pages

Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

Sonya Sones · 159 pages

A younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown.

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

S. Nassir Ghaemi · 340 pages

An investigation into the surprisingly deep correlation between mental illness and successful leadership, as seen through some of history's greatest politicians, generals, and businesspeople. "A First-Rate Madness," Nassir Ghaemi, who runs the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts University Medical Center, draws from the careers and personal plights of such notable leaders as Lincoln, Churchill, Gandh

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness

Daniel G. Amen · 352 pages

In this breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with.

My Body Is a Book of Rules

Elissa Washuta · 189 pages

As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself overwhelmed by the calamities piling up in her brain. When her mood-stabilizing medications aren't threatening her life, they're shoving her from depression to mania and back in the space of an hour. Her crisis of American Indian identity bleeds into other areas of self-doubt; mental illness, sexual tra

Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So

Mark Vonnegut · 203 pages

More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his remarkable story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling as a pediatrician, and learning that willpower isn't nearly enough. Here is the world after Mark was released from a mental hospital to find his family forever altered. Af

The Silver Linings Playbook

Matthew Quick

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder

Paul T. Mason, Randi Kreger · 258 pages

Daughter of the Queen of Sheba

Jacki Lyden · 258 pages

As a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, Jacki Lyden has spent her adult life on the frontlines in some of the most dangerous war zones in the world. Her childhood was a war zone of a different kind. Her mother suffered from what we now call manic-depression; when Jacki was a child in a small midwestern town, her mother was simply called crazy. Jacki would return home from grade scho

The Feeling Good Handbook

David D. Burns · 658 pages

How to use Cognitive Therapy to overcome a wide variety of mood problems. Depression, Frustration, Panic, Chronic Worry, Phobias. Personal Relationship Problems. Marital Conflict, Difficulty at Work.