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Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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 treatment for depression involving ten rounds of a chemically induced coma approximating brain death. For years, Heather B. Armstrong has alluded to her struggle with depression on her website, dooce....
Author
Publisher
Santa Monica Press/Teen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In [this book], Yvonne Castañeda shares vibrant stories of her childhood growing up in Miami as the daughter of humble immigrants from Mexico and Cuba ... and how she came to develop an unhealthy relationship with food. Plagued by doubt and low self-esteem, Yvonne begins a vicious cycle of weight gain and loss, and a reliance on dangerous coping mechanisms. Ultimately, sage advice from her dear abuela gives Yvonne to a realization that shifts her...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What is depression? Is it a persistent low mood or a complex range of symptoms? Is it a single diagnosis or a diversity of mental disorders requiring different treatments? In A Cure for Darkness, science writer Alex Riley explores these questions, digging into the long history of depression and chronicling the lives of psychiatrists and scientists who sought cures for their patients.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dismantling the stigmas surrounding mental health challenges, this intimate portrait of the author's lifelong struggle with depression is a life-affirming blueprint of how to accept and transcend the limitations of mental illness"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A vital and triumphant story of perseverance and recovery by one of Canada's foremost advocates for mental health When Mark Henick was a teenager in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, he was overwhelmed by depression and anxiety that led to a series of increasingly dangerous suicide attempts. One night, he climbed onto a bridge over an overpass and stood in the wind, clinging to a girder. Someone shouted, 'Jump, you coward!' Another man, a stranger in a brown...
27) The rescuer: one firefighter's story of courage, darkness, and the relentless love that saved him
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Jason Sautel had it all. Confident in his abilities and trusted by his fellow firefighters, he was making a name for himself on the streets of Oakland, California. His adrenaline-fueled job even helped him forget the pain of his childhood--until the day he looked into the eyes of a jumper on the Bay Bridge and came face to face with a darkness he knew would take him down as well. In the following months, a series of traumatic emergency calls--some...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her mother's death, Sarah spirals into depression and overdoses on sleeping pills. While Sarah claims it was an accident, her family isn't so sure. Her husband Patrick suggests a fresh start since the idyllic family home where he was raised has recently come up for sale. There's only one catch: for the past fifteen years, it has stood empty after a family was stabbed to death within its walls. Patrick believes they can bring the house back to...
Author
Publisher
New Island Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Caitriona Lally's sophomore novel centres around an outsider protagonist, Roy, an Irishman exiled from Ireland to Hamburg for unknown reasons. In his new, simple life he works as a cleaner at the Wunderland miniature exhibition where he is more comfortable meddling in the tiny scenes than he is in interacting with his co-workers and visitors to the museum. To Roy's almost total indifference, his sister Gert visits for a few days, the first of their...
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Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked...
34) Serotonin
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Michel Houellebecq's Serotonin is a caustic, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, and politically incorrect novel about the decline of Europe, Western civilization, and humanity in general. Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional failures, the aging hedonist and agricultural engineer Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is "dying of sadness." He hates his young girlfriend, and the feeling is almost certainly mutual; his career is pretty...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life. J.M. Thompson, now a successful psychologist, retraces the path that led him from despair to wellness, detailing the chilling childhood trauma that caused his depression, and the unorthodox treatment that saved him"--
36) The red canoe
Author
Series
Buck Fineday volume 1
Publisher
Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Buck, government name Michael Fineday, Ojibwe name Miskwa' doden (Red Deer) is on the brink of suicide. He has just been served divorce papers by his wife Naomi, who is fed up with his savior complex and the danger it often attracts to their door. Living on the border of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community reservation, Buck makes a living as a boatbuilder and carpenter. He spends his days alone, trying to win the trust of a feral cat ... until a...
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Single Wall Street banker Rae, searching for Mr. Right before her thirtieth birthday, meets Dustin, a fellow poetic soul trapped in a business suit like her, and as their relationship progresses, his struggles with depression test her resolve as she tries to let love breathe on its own timeline.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A perfect book to help discuss mental health, depression, empathy, loss, and hope with young children. Arthur's gloomy father rushes him through the park every morning, through gray and rainy weather. Arthur just wants a bright balloon from the park's vendor, but Papa always says no. One morning, the balloons magically appear at their doorstep, and Arthur figures out the perfect way to bring the sunshine out--and Papa's smile back--even if only for...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Kelly Williams Brown had 700 Bad Days. Her marriage collapsed, she broke three limbs in separate and unrelated incidents, her father was diagnosed with cancer, and she fell into a deep depression that ended in what could delicately be referred to as a rest cure
40) Control
Series
Miriam collection volume 3
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Ian Curtis has aspirations beyond the trappings of small town life in 1970s England. Wanting to emulate his musical heroes, he joins a band, and his musical ambition begins to thrive. Soon though, the everyday fears and emotions, fueled by his music, slowly begin to eat away at him. Married young, with a daughter, he is distracted from his family commitments by a new love and the growing expectations of his band, Joy Division. The strain manifests...
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