depression

11 Memoirs About Overcoming Depression & Other Stories of Hope

Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the United States, with an average of 132 suicides per day and over 1.6 million attempts per year. Falling within the middle of September (dubbed National Suicide Prevention Month by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention) September 10 marks the beginning…

BookTribSeptember 14, 2023

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Sharing His Gruesome Yet Inspiring Path to Peace and Recovery

There’s a word I was looking for that, unless I missed it, does not appear in Blue Andrews’ gripping memoir, Choosing Life: One Man’s Journey Through Alcoholism and Depression to Wellness and Self-Discovery. That word is courage. Probably because it’s not a word a writer would necessarily bestow on himself,…

Jim AlkonMay 9, 2023

Miscellany

Journal Writing: Every Day for 33 Years…and Counting

Since her 2009 diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, Dr. Lisa Doggett has come to realize MS is no excuse to avoid challenges. Instead, it has propelled her to run two marathons, hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, and complete a 168-mile bike ride to raise awareness for MS. She is…

Lisa DoggettOctober 5, 2018

Miscellany

5 Myths About Depression We Need to Shut Down Immediately

Originally posted on Psychology Today. Depression, like art, can never be adequately described in words alone, though Andrew Solomon comes close in his memoir Noonday Demon. In it, he writes: "I felt as though I had a physical need, of impossible urgency and discomfort, from which there was no release—as though I were…

Allison AbramsFebruary 5, 2018

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“Flight of the Beautiful Lie” Soars With the Resiliency of a Transgender Woman-of-Color

When I embarked on reading the memoir Flight of the Beautiful Lie, I knew that it was about a transgender woman, Jasmine Christine Ford, and her transition, but I really had no idea of the scope of her story. Born James Otis Ford (nicknamed Jof) into poverty and violence, Jasmine’s…

Barbara WilkovOctober 13, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“Distressed? Anguished? Heal Your BMind” With New Approaches to Overcoming Mental Health Issues

Recently, focus on mental health and awareness of the various ways it breaks down have become a touchstone issue, especially after the year we’ve had and the uncertainty of what is to come. Add to that the general stresses of life, fears, anxiety, past traumas, existing depression … the list…

Barbara WilkovSeptember 27, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“Surviving Our Parents’ Mistakes” May Be Less Painful With the Support of This Book

“I’m furious with Mother. She stole my childhood … I feel pierced because she played on my fears. I trusted what she did was best for me, but she met her own needs, not mine. She took advantage of a scared, defenseless little boy.” That is one of the hundreds…

Jim AlkonSeptember 14, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Dr. Shelley Kolton’s Memoir Uncovers All The Sides of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Successful doctor Shelley Kolton, MD, seems like she has it all — a thriving OB/GYN practice, three young daughters, an active love life. But there are dark sides to Kolton that she hides from the world. Dark sides that hide themselves even from her. Brain Storm: A Life in Pieces (FLR…

Nicole MaherAugust 13, 2021

Nonfiction

Excerpt: The Must-Read Guide for Anyone Dealing with Crippling OCD and Anxiety

Below is an excerpt from the first chapter of Adam Shaw and Dr. Lauren Collaghan's Pulling the Trigger: The Definitive Survival and Recovery Approach to OCD, Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Related Depression. Introduction COURAGE NOT FIGHT Accept Your Mind, Own It For What It Is. This Takes Courage, Not Fight…

Beth WaskoNovember 2, 2016

Nonfiction

Finding an Island of Hope in a Sea of Depression is The Happiness Quest

There are many ways to try to visualize major clinical depression, a disorder that affects one out of every five women and one out of every eight men. The picture I always found most accurate comes from a scene in the Tom Hanks movie Cast Away. One moment, he’s on…

Michael RuscoeNovember 13, 2015

Nonfiction

Allie Brosh Making Solutions Problematic Once Again

As someone who can only barely remember a time before the internet, I tend to give the online world a whole lot of legitimacy. So when popular online figures extend their reach into the world of traditional publishing, I usually meet the announcement with a less than enthusiastic, “Meh.” But…

Joel HigginsJuly 8, 2015

Better Self Better Self - Featured Miscellany

Add Books to Your Mental Health Care Routine

October 10 is World Mental Health Day! The first commemoration was in 1992 with an aim for support and outreach, but it was the beginning of a new era: between the early nineties and today, destigmatization initiatives, care choices and availability, advocacy, awareness foundations and research have, thankfully, made leaps…

Judy MorenoOctober 8, 2021

Better Self Nonfiction

Madness to Magic: Paolina Milana on Mental Health and Her Memoir “Committed”

“Insanity had taken root in my family tree, and I was tasked with tending our garden,” writes Paolina Milana as she begins Committed: A Memoir of Madness in the Family (She Writes Press). With plans to attend an out-of-state university, a year away from her family promised 20-year-old Paolina respite…

Chelsea CicconeMay 5, 2021

Fiction

Logic Breaks into Book Industry with “Supermarket”

Bobby Hall, best known in the music world as the platinum-selling recording artist Logic, has made a habit of shocking the world with his talent and ambition. A high school dropout raised in a home crippled with substance addiction, many would have predicted that Hall's inauspicious circumstances early on would…

Rebecca ProulxMarch 26, 2019

Fiction

Tall Poppies Review: Laura Drake Takes Sibling Devotion to a New Level in “Days Made of Glass”

Buckle up readers, because your emotions are in for a roller coaster ride in Laura Drake’s Days Made of Glass - A gripping story of sibling devotion, mental illness and having to face hard truths about oneself. The symbolism in this story hits from every angle. Shattered glass is the…

Marin ThomasOctober 26, 2017

Fiction

Author Tracy O’Neill Answers One Question about ‘The Hopeful’

Many writers want their stories to be as relatable as possible. The stories we know and understand are the ones we can relate to the best. Authors, such as Alice Munro, do a spectacular job in creating compelling characters that could easily resemble a relative or friend. There are some authors, however,…

Matt GillickFebruary 18, 2016

11 Memoirs About Overcoming Depression & Other Stories of Hope

Sharing His Gruesome Yet Inspiring Path to Peace and Recovery

Journal Writing: Every Day for 33 Years…and Counting

5 Myths About Depression We Need to Shut Down Immediately

“Flight of the Beautiful Lie” Soars With the Resiliency of a Transgender Woman-of-Color

“Distressed? Anguished? Heal Your BMind” With New Approaches to Overcoming Mental Health Issues

“Surviving Our Parents’ Mistakes” May Be Less Painful With the Support of This Book

Dr. Shelley Kolton’s Memoir Uncovers All The Sides of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Excerpt: The Must-Read Guide for Anyone Dealing with Crippling OCD and Anxiety

Finding an Island of Hope in a Sea of Depression is The Happiness Quest

Allie Brosh Making Solutions Problematic Once Again

Add Books to Your Mental Health Care Routine

Madness to Magic: Paolina Milana on Mental Health and Her Memoir “Committed”

Logic Breaks into Book Industry with “Supermarket”

Tall Poppies Review: Laura Drake Takes Sibling Devotion to a New Level in “Days Made of Glass”

Author Tracy O’Neill Answers One Question about ‘The Hopeful’

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