Mental Health Awareness

May is Mental Health Awareness Month 🧠🩺

Check out these books from our fiction, nonfiction, and health & fitness sections dealing with mental illness and mental health

Updated March 6, 2025
Westchester Library System Mount Pleasant Public Library
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Really Good, Actually
Heisey, Monica.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Every sentence of Monica Heisey's writing is a treat. No one makes me laugh like she does." --Dolly Alderton, New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Know About Love Recommended by Los Angeles Times * Washington Post * GQ * Elle * Good Morning America...
No one cares about crazy people : the chaos and heartbreak of mental health in America
Powers, Ron
Paper Book
New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at...
Brain on fire : my month of madness
Cahalan, Susannah.
Ebook
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZ A "captivating" (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is a powerful account of...
I liked my life
Fabiaschi, Abby.
Paper Book
Maddy is a devoted stay-at-home wife and mother, the cornerstone of her family . . . until she commits suicide, leaving her husband, Brady, and teenager Eve heartbroken and reeling. How they can possibly continue without her? Maddy, however, isn't ready to leave her family forever. Watching from...
What happened to you? : conversations on trauma, resilience, and healing
Perry, Bruce Duncan 1955-
Paper Book
ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand....
A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
Riley, Alex (Science writer)
Paper Book
A fascinating, "rich, and generous" (Financial Times) look at the treatment of depression by an award-winning science writer that blends popular science, narrative history, and memoir. Is depression a persistent low mood, or is it a range...

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