Books to Read for Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. These are some of our favorite reads that follow characters on their mental health journey.
sorrow and bliss.
Martha Friel just turned forty. She used to work at Vogue and was going to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content for no one. She used to live in Paris. Now, she lives in a gated community in Oxford that she hates and can’t bear to leave. But she must now that her loving husband Patrick has just left.
Sorrow and Bliss approaches Martha’s journey with her mental health with wit, nuance, and compassion. This book will make you laugh out loud and cry.
how it feels to float.
Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface—normal okay regular fine. She has her friends, her mom, the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who shouldn't be here but is. So Biz doesn't tell anyone anything—not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And not about seeing her dad. Because her dad died when she was seven.
This beautifully written story tackles common YA issues like sexual identity, grief, and depression.
maybe you should talk to someone.
From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist’s world—where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).
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 to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
fear of flying.
Liv has lost everything.
A chance encounter on the flight to Europe leads to a lasting friendship that Liv comes to rely on above all else.
But as Liv grapples with the tragedies of her past, is there room in her broken life for another person?
my therapist told me to journal.
The author HATES journaling. This is the journal she wishes she had had when first starting out in therapy.
From the creator of Just Peachy Comics, this interactive self-care book uses journaling, drawing, and goal-tracking to help improve the user's overall mental health and well-being. The journal will introduce you to a variety of therapy practices such as CBT (Cognitive behavioral therapy) and EMDR. It will also illustrate the author's “dot method” of goal tracking to help reduce anxiety.
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