Fiction, or preferably non-fiction.
I’m in outpatient recovery, and in search of a read of struggling with things [such as Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts or self harm.] and overcoming them. A tear jerker, but feeling inspired by the end.
by Ponk_Bubs
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Lori Gottlieb’s Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, I think is sort of what you’re looking for, less overcoming specific mental illnesses but a memoir of a therapist working through a lot of different psychological issues with her clients. The therapist-author is also working out her own issues with her own therapist. Also the book is kind of lighthearted and funny, while still being very moving and profound.
Another good one along those same lines is Christie Tate’s Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life. She’s dealing with an ED and other trauma/psychological issues. Also has a good sense of humor.
Also, I liked Elyn Saks’s The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness. The author is learning to cope with her schizophrenia as she goes to law school.
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. She lives with depression and other illnesses, mental and physical.
It’s raw and honest and powerful. It’s also incredibly funny.
Why am I anxious: power tools for restoring peace by Dr. Tracey Mark’s, The Comfort Book by Matt Haig, Help me I’m stuck by Vaughn Carter, The cheat code :Overcoming anxiety and depression by Aldair R. Manzanares, Out of the Cave by Chris Hodges. The Bell jar by Sylvia Plath, Twisted: A suicide story by Eleazar Rodriguez, Treating suicidal clients and self- Harm behaviors: Assessments and worksheets by Dr. Meagan N Houston, Freedom from self harm by Kim Gratz.
[I Made It Through The Rain: A Story About Overcoming Panic Disorder](https://www.amazon.com/Made-Through-Rain-Overcoming-Disorder/dp/1462055990) by Robert E. Sterling.
I found this book in a roundabout way. During the pandemic, I looked up the builder of an apartment building where I had lived. It turns out, the author’s son wrote it, and I found it on Kindle unlimited.
Plus you can follow up on the author a decade later, and and see how he has progressed. It’s a quick, easy read, and brutally honest.
Sure I’ll join your cult by Maria Bamford.
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo