Memoirs of Mental Illness

*Update: here’s another great list of memoirs on mental illness, including Hurry Down Sunshine

 

Here’s a list of memoirs of mental illness that I have read and want to read.  As you all know, my aim in life is to write my memoir on Complex PTSD, Bipolar, Dissociative Disorder, and Psychosis mixed with faith and a little Mysticism and psychology.   Please feel free to add to the list in the comments, I’m always looking for more.

• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
• Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
• Blue Genes by Christopher Lukas
• Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
• The Kiss by Katherine Harrison
• Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
•     No One (new from Tin House) by Gwenalle Aubry
•                                  An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
• Just Checking by Emily Colas
• Darkness Visible by William Styron
• Denial by Jessica Stern
• Skin Game by Caroline Kettlewell
• Unholy Ghost (anthology) edited by Neil Casey
• The Quiet Room by Lori Schiller with Amanda Bennett
• Musical Chairs by Jen Knox
• Loud in the House of Myself by Stacy Pershall
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• Hystera by Leora Skolkin-Smith
• Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
• Electroboy : A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman
• Sickened by Julie Gregory
• When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase (…amazing so far)
• A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill
• Lucky by Alice Sebold
• Welcome to My Country by Lauren Slater
• Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
• Borderlines by Caroline Kraus
• Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion by Amy S. Wilensky