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Acceptance
Emi Nietfeld - Penguin Press
Format: Book
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A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, examining society's fixation on resilience - and its costAs a homeless teenager writing college essays in her '92 Toyota Corolla, Emi Nietfeld was convinced that an elite school was the only... |
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Broken
Jenny Lawson - Henry Holt and Co.; Illustrated edition
Format: Book
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As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor. Jenny discusses the frustration of dealing with her insurance... |
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The Collected Schizophrenias
Esme Weijun Wang - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting AwardAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias... |
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Everything
Alice Carriere - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Book
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A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman's coming-of-age in the bohemian '90s, as her adolescence gives way to a struggle with dissociative disorder. Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote... |
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Jenny Lawson - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.As... |
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Gorilla and the Bird
ZACK MCDERMOTT - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who refuses to give up on him Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show-style, as part of an audition for a TV pilot.... |
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker - Doubleday
Format: Book
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The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's... |
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems... |
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Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD
Allison Britz - Simon Pulse
Format: Book
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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.Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived... |
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Outofshapeworthlessloser
Gracie Gold - Crown
Format: Book
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In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental illness, eating disorders, and the self-destructive voice inside that she calls "outofshapeworthlessloser.". When Gracie Gold stepped onto center stage (or ice, rather) as America's... |
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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
Maria Bamford - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Book
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Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider among outsiders) and has forever fought to find a place to belong. From struggling with an eating disorder as a child of the 1980s, to navigating a career in the arts (and medical debt and psychiatric institutionalization) , she has tried... |
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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Maia Szalavitz - St Martin'S Press
Format: Book
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More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century... |
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The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
Heather B. Armstrong - Gallery Books
Format: Book
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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... |
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Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
JENIFER LEWIS - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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In this exciting collection infused with her sharp humor and buoyant spirit, Jenifer Lewis, the author of the hugely successful The Mother of Black Hollywood and costar of ABC's hit sitcom Black-ish, shares the way she found the strength and courage to walk in her joy despite personal... |
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