mental illness

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

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Author Declassifies the War Within His Mind to Help Others in His Shoes

John Poehler in 1999 was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder Type 1. Dealing with the effects of bipolar disorder were going to be monumental enough. But in that first wave of comprehension as the implications of the diagnosis sink in, emotions can run wild: fear, anxiety, depression, loneliness, worthlessness, maybe even…

Jim AlkonAugust 19, 2022

Young Adult

John Green’s ‘Turtles All the Way Down’ is Finally Here!

OMG, it’s happening! Fans have been waiting 5 years for young adult author John Green to publish a new book, and now that wait is finally over. His new novel, Turtles All the Way Down, comes out October 10th (with Dutton Books for Young Readers), and it’s already dominating all the…

Rachel CarterSeptember 25, 2017

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Memoir “Virtual Insanity” Provides a Minds-Eye View of Schizophrenia

Lara McKenzie has known terror and trauma most of us will never experience in our lifetimes. She has been stalked by wealthy and powerful men. Monitored by various intelligence agencies. Unwittingly microchipped. Tortured with electromagnetic weaponry. Her mind has been invaded incessantly by interrogators and military commanders. She’s been tricked…

Cynthia ConradJanuary 13, 2022

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

Mariah Carey, Margot Kidder and Me: Defying The Verdict

After a public meltdown in 2001, Carey recently accepted her Bipolar II diagnosis, vowing to accept this diagnosis and care for herself. In April, she shared with okayplayer.com that she's “in a really good place hopeful we can get to a place where the stigma is lifted from people going…

Charita Cole BrownJuly 11, 2018

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

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Beautifully Written Autobiographic Novel About One Man’s Journey From Despair

It’s not enough that Tony Hill suffers from bipolar disorder, has been homeless and lived in his car with his two kids for three months, has been incarcerated stemming from domestic abuse, has not kept a job for more than a year, was dishonorably discharged from the Navy, and battles…

Jim AlkonFebruary 28, 2022

Fiction

Intimate and Compelling, “Family Illness” Depicts Struggle in the Face of OCD

If Evan Wechman wanted to educate the public on obsessive-compulsive disorder, he could have presented the facts about the mental health disorder whose cases number 200,000 in the U.S. He could have explained that OCD occurs when people get caught in a cycle of extreme obsessions and compulsions, which cause…

Jim AlkonJuly 29, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

Terry Watkins’ Darling Girl Disrupted

What if you lived in a trailer, always moving to the next town? What if your mom had to spend weeks away and your dad was never home? In Darling Girl (Green Place Books), a heart-moving tale, Terry H. Watkins chronicles 13 years in the precarious life of “DG” Pitre through…

K.L. RomoOctober 5, 2018

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

Better Self Nonfiction

Co-Founder of Melissa & Doug Transforms Darkness Into Light in Memoir “LifeLines”

Melissa Bernstein, the creative genius and co-founder of Melissa & Doug Toy Company, has bared her soul in her upcoming book, LifeLines: An Inspirational Journey From Profound Darkness to Radiant Light. She has been struggling with existential depression and anxiety her entire life. She was denying her despair, hiding it…

Jennifer BlankfeinFebruary 18, 2021

Better Self Nonfiction

“He Came in With It:” A Quest for Stability Amid Chaos

“Heartbreaking, cathartic and startlingly funny, it thoroughly redefines our conception of unconditional love." ― Actor Tony Shaloub “Shows us the way through an unimaginable terror to the light of hope.” ― Actors LaTanya and Samuel L. Jackson When a book, in this case a memoir, is heaped in praise before…

BookTribJuly 21, 2020

Fiction

Family Bonds are Tested by Mental Illness in Mira T. Lee’s Debut, ‘Everything Here Is Beautiful’

In her new book Everything Here Is Beautiful (Pamela Dorman Books), author Mira T. Lee eloquently shows us when someone has a mental illness, it affects each person in the family and impacts all relationships. Miranda and Lucia grew up very close, as loving sisters, Chinese-American girls from New York. When…

BookTribMarch 12, 2018

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

“The Year I Left:” Depression, Healing and Second Chances

After the death of her mother, Carin Frost wakes up one morning and knows things will never be the same for her or her family. She is 35-years-old when she begins to identify her feelings of loss. Christine Brae’s sixth novel, The Year I Left (Vesuvian Books), weaves the story of…

Mary Ann RyanJuly 30, 2019

11 Memoirs About Overcoming Depression & Other Stories of Hope

Author Declassifies the War Within His Mind to Help Others in His Shoes

John Green’s ‘Turtles All the Way Down’ is Finally Here!

Memoir “Virtual Insanity” Provides a Minds-Eye View of Schizophrenia

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

Mariah Carey, Margot Kidder and Me: Defying The Verdict

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

Intimate and Compelling, “Family Illness” Depicts Struggle in the Face of OCD

Terry Watkins’ Darling Girl Disrupted

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

Co-Founder of Melissa & Doug Transforms Darkness Into Light in Memoir “LifeLines”

“He Came in With It:” A Quest for Stability Amid Chaos

Family Bonds are Tested by Mental Illness in Mira T. Lee’s Debut, ‘Everything Here Is Beautiful’

Logic Breaks into Book Industry with “Supermarket”

“The Year I Left:” Depression, Healing and Second Chances

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