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• This Will All Be Over Soon

  a Memoir

  Strong, Cecily, 1984-

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  A powerful memoir from the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousin-and embracing the life-affirming lessons he taught her-amid the coronavirus pandemic.

• And Now I Spill the Family Secrets

  An Illustrated Memoir

  Kimball, Margaret (Illustrator),

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  A beautifully illustrated memoir and empathetic investigation into a family's history with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and one woman's quest to find healing among what remains.

• What My Bones Know

  a Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma

  Foo, Stephanie,

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  A searing memoir of reckoning and healing from an acclaimed journalist and former This American Life producer investigating the little-understood science behind Complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life.

• In Love

  a Memoir of Love and Loss

  Bloom, Amy, 1953-

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  Amy and Brian's world was changed forever with his diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's. Forced to confront the daily frustrations and realities of the disease and its impact on their lives and marriage, Brian resolved not to let it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sociopath

  a Memoir

  Gagne, Patric,

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  With emotions like fear, guilt and empathy eluding her, the author, trying to replace the nothingness with something, realizes, after connecting with an old flame, if she's capable of love, it must mean she isn't a monster and sets out to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No One Gets to Fall Apart

  a Memoir

  LaBrie, Sarah,

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  On a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie’s mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. The diagnosis of schizophrenia that followed compelled Sarah to rethink her childhood,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Men Have Called Her Crazy

  a Memoir

  Tendler, Anna Marie, 1985-

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  When artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital, she underwent myriad tests and therapies. Here, she recounts her experience and examines the expectations and pressures modern women face.

• Everything / Nothing / Someone

  a Memoir

  Carrière, Alice,

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  This compelling literary debut tells the story of a young woman coming of age in the bohemian '90s as she navigates through the challenges of adolescence and grapples with dissociative disorder.

• Sure, I'll Join Your Cult

  a Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

  Bamford, Maria, 1970-

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  Stand-up comedian Bamford catalogs all the “cults” she’s joined—from Debtors Anonymous to “Suzuki-method violin training”—in search of structure and community in her hilarious, eyebrow-raising debut memoir. “I’m not suicidal, but I’m not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'm Glad My Mom Died

  McCurdy, Jennette, 1992-

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  "A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder

  a Memoir

  Kurchak, Sarah, 1982-

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  "An autistic writer's memoir of the detrimental effects of pretending to be normal, and her impassioned call to redefine what is considered a successful life. Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn't let that get in the way of pursuing her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Scarlet

  the Story of My Postpartum Depression

  Wong, Teresa, 1976-

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  "In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Depression Hates a Moving Target

  How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink / Ita Sweeny

  Sweeney, Nita

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  A perfect pairing of running memoir and recovery from depression, Depression Hates a Moving Target offers hope and help to readers who might be at the brink themselves.

• The Edge of Every Day

  Sketches of Schizophrenia

  Sardy, Marin,

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  Shares highly informed meditations into how the author's childhood in Anchorage, her literary career, and the lives of beloved family members have been impacted by hereditary schizophrenia.

• The Collected Schizophrenias

  Essays

  Wang, Esmé Weijun,

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  "Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heart Berries

  a Memoir

  Mailhot, Terese Marie,

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  Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heavy

  An American Memoir

  Laymon, Kiese,

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  Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shook One

  Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me

  Tha God, Charlamagne, 1980-

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  Charlamagne Tha God, New York Times bestselling author of Black Privilege and cohost of Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club, reveals his blueprint for breaking free from your fears and anxiety to reach that elusive next level of success. Fear…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sick

  a Memoir

  Khakpour, Porochista,

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  In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery that details author Porochista Khakpour's struggles with late-stage…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hunger

  a Memoir of (my) Body

  Gay, Roxane,

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  "New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption,…Read moreRead more of this annotation