Mental Health Awareness Month - Adult

May is Mental Health Awareness month and to help destigmatize mental illness we have created some titles to help you learn more.

Updated March 25, 2025
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ADHD for smart ass women : how to fall in love with your neurodivergent brain
Otsuka, Tracy
Audiobook
Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
Gottlieb, Lori
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing."--Katie Couric "This is a daring, delightful, and transformative...
WHILE YOU WERE OUT
KISSINGER, MEG
Paper Book
" From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the...
The highly sensitive person : how to thrive when the world overwhelms you
Aron, Elaine.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Are you a highly sensitive person? Discover how to better understand yourself and create a fuller, richer life with the help of a clinical psychologist--now with a new author's note with updated research. "To say this book changed my life would be an...
Invisible wounds
Ruliffson, Jess
Paper Book
Over the past five years, Jess Ruliffson has travelled across the country interviewing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. She shares the stories of men, women, and non-binary people who struggle to reconcile their wartime experiences with their postwar lives. In this compassionate book,...
The deepest well : healing the long-term effects of childhood adversity
Burke Harris, Nadine
Paper Book
"An extraordinary, eye-opening book." --People "A rousing wake-up call . . . this highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of...
How to winter : harness your mindset to thrive on cold, dark, or difficult days
Leibowitz, Kari
Paper Book
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2024 A blend of mindset science, original research, and cultural insights for cultivating a positive "wintertime mindset," to vanquish winter blues and find joy and comfort in dark times year-round. Do you dread the end...
Raising mentally strong kids : how to combine the power of neuroscience with love and logic to grow confident, kind, responsible, and resilient children and young adults
Amen, Daniel G.
Paper Book
Instant national bestseller!Parenting is about to get easier--and a whole lot more effective....In a time when so many children and young adults seem to be struggling, parents are looking for help in bringing up mentally healthy kids who are equipped to thrive. Finally, evidence-based...
There's nothing wrong with her : a novel
Weinberg, Kate
Paper Book
"Beautiful." --Sarah Jessica Parker "The best thing you'll read this year." --Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age A raw, tenderly comic, and perfectly off-kilter novel about a woman who occasionally finds herself in "The Pit"--a delirious state of...
Good nature : why seeing, smelling, hearing, and touching plants is good for our health
Willis, K. J.
Paper Book
A Next Big Idea Club must-read selection! An Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Nonfiction Book! A ground-breaking investigation into newly discovered evidence showing that remarkable things happen to our bodies and our minds when our senses connect with the...

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