8 Favorite Adult Books About Mental Illness

  1. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher
  2. Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher
  3. The Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
  4. The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks
  5. But Inside I’m Screaming by Elizabeth Flock
  6. The Quiet Room: A Journey out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller
  7. Mind Without a Home: A Memoir of Schizophrenia by Kristina Morgan
  8. January First: A Child’s Descent into Madness and Her Father’s Struggle to Save Her by Michael Schofield

The options for excellent books on mental illness for adults aren’t as great as what is available to the young adult audience. I could only come up with eight that I’d read again.

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Author: angelagrey

Angela Grey is an Indigenous novelist, poet, and painter whose work explores the intersections of memory, identity, and healing. She, formerly an architectural drafter, studied creative writing, as well as spirituality and healing, at the University of Minnesota, where she deepened her commitment to storytelling as both an art and a form of medicine. Alongside her writing, Angela finds balance in yoga and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), which shape the reflective quality of her work. She lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with her husband, one spirited pup, and four cats. When she’s not writing, she enjoys camping, budget travel to places like Maine, Oregon, and the coastal Carolinas, and gathering with family around a BBQ grill.

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