Reading memoirs can help you begin to heal and thrive again.
Andy Behrman (2002): Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania (public library)
Sara Benincasa (2012): Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom
Nellie Bly (1887): Ten Days in A Mad-House: Illustrated and Annotated: A First-Hand Account of Life At Bellevue Hospital on Blackwell’s Island in 1887
Susannah Cahalan (2013): Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Terri Cheney (2009): Manic: A Memoir
Clyde Dee (2015): Fighting for Freedom in America: Memoir of a “Schizophrenia” and Mainstream Cultural Delusions
Patty Duke (1997): Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness (first published in 1992)
Patty Duke (2011): Call Me Anna (first published in 1987)
Nick Flynn (2004): Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. A Memoir
Ellen Forney (2012): Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir
Emma Forrest (2012): Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir
Roxanne Gay (2017): Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Emma Goude (2020) My Beautiful Psychosis – Making Sense of Madness
Suzy Favor Hamilton (2016): Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness
Stephan Hinshaw (2017): Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
Marya Hornbacher (2009): Madness: A Bipolar Life
Marya Hornbacher (2009): Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (first published in 1998)
Siri Hustvedt (2010): The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves
Kay Redfield Jamison (2009): An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (first published in 1995)
Susanna Kaysen (2000): Girl, Interrupted
Amy Liptrot (2018): The Outrun
Eleanor Longden (2013): Learning from the Voices in My Head (TED Books Book 39)
Carmen Maria Machado (2019): In the Dream House: A Memoir
Terese Marie Mailhot (2019): Heart Berries
Zack McDermott (2017): Gorilla and the Bird: A memoir of madness and a mother’s love
Channel Miller (2109): Know My Name
Melody Moezzi (2014): Haldol and Hyacintas: A Bipolar Life
Katinka Blackford Newman (2016): The Pill That Steals Lives: One Woman’s Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth about Antidepressants
Stacy Pershall (2012): Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
Elyn R. Saks (2008): The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Daniel Paul Schreber (2000): Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (first published in 1955)
William Styron (1992): Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Grace Talusam (2019): The Body Papers: A Memoir
Ned Vizzini (2007): It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Elizabeth Wurtzel (2016): Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
