Best Mental Illness Books | Summaries & Audio

Mental Illness Book Summaries

The Housemaid

by Freida McFadden

A desperate ex-con maid moves into a mansion where the attic door locks from the outside.

4.27

3.6M+

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🔒 Coercive Control

Immersive

The Housemaid

A desperate ex-con maid moves into a mansion where the attic door locks from the outside.

by Freida McFadden 2022 329 pages

4.27

3.6M+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🔒 Coercive Control

Needing to Know for Sure

by Martin N. Seif • 2019

Reassurance feeds the anxiety it promises to cure. Here is how to end the cycle.

4.34

1k+

🧠 Anxiety Disorders 💭 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 🎯 Exposure Therapy

Immersive

Needing to Know for Sure

Reassurance feeds the anxiety it promises to cure. Here is how to end the cycle.

by Martin N. Seif 2019 192 pages

4.34

1k+ ratings

🧠 Anxiety Disorders 💭 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 🎯 Exposure Therapy

Burn Rate

by Andy Dunn • 2022

He hid bipolar disorder while building Bonobos. A jail cell forced the secret out.

4.33

2k+

🏢 Startup Memoirs 🧠 Bipolar Memoir 🏷️ Mental Health Stigma

Immersive

Burn Rate

He hid bipolar disorder while building Bonobos. A jail cell forced the secret out.

by Andy Dunn 2022 304 pages

4.33

2k+ ratings

🏢 Startup Memoirs 🧠 Bipolar Memoir 🏷️ Mental Health Stigma

Girl in Pieces

by Kathleen Glasgow • 2016

After a psych ward, a teenage artist falls for a musician who makes self-destruction look like love.

3.93

200k+

🏨 Psychiatric Hospital 🩹 Self-Harm Recovery 🎨 Art As Healing

Girl in Pieces

After a psych ward, a teenage artist falls for a musician who makes self-destruction look like love.

by Kathleen Glasgow 2016 416 pages

3.93

200k+ ratings

🏨 Psychiatric Hospital 🩹 Self-Harm Recovery 🎨 Art As Healing

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

by Baek Se-hee • 2018

She craved rice cakes and wanted to disappear. These are the therapy sessions that followed.

3.21

100k+

🛋️ Therapy Memoirs 🌧️ Depression Recovery 🔍 Cognitive Distortions

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

She craved rice cakes and wanted to disappear. These are the therapy sessions that followed.

by Baek Se-hee 2018 208 pages

3.21

100k+ ratings

🛋️ Therapy Memoirs 🌧️ Depression Recovery 🔍 Cognitive Distortions

Pragmatics of Human Communication

by Paul Watzlawick • 1967

Your silence speaks. Your questions command. Your fights turn on where you punctuate the story.

4.21

500+

🗣️ Communication Theory 🔗 Systems Theory 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Systems

Pragmatics of Human Communication

Your silence speaks. Your questions command. Your fights turn on where you punctuate the story.

by Paul Watzlawick 1967 304 pages

4.21

500+ ratings

🗣️ Communication Theory 🔗 Systems Theory 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Systems

Looking for Alaska

by John Green • 2005

A boarding school boy obsessed with last words meets a brilliant girl already writing hers.

3.96

1.7M+

🏫 Boarding School Fiction 💔 Tragic First Love 🌪️ Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Looking for Alaska

A boarding school boy obsessed with last words meets a brilliant girl already writing hers.

by John Green 2005 270 pages

3.96

1.7M+ ratings

🏫 Boarding School Fiction 💔 Tragic First Love 🌪️ Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Sometimes I Lie

by Alice Feeney • 2017

She lies in a coma, fully aware, as her husband and sister discuss what they did.

3.74

300k+

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Childhood Trauma

Sometimes I Lie

She lies in a coma, fully aware, as her husband and sister discuss what they did.

by Alice Feeney 2017 387 pages

3.74

300k+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Childhood Trauma

I Hate You--Don't Leave Me

by Jerold J. Kreisman • 1989

Loving you at noon, seeing a villain by dinner: the disorder behind the whiplash.

3.79

16k+

🧠 Personality Disorders 🌪️ Borderline Personality 🎢 Emotional Dysregulation

I Hate You--Don't Leave Me

Loving you at noon, seeing a villain by dinner: the disorder behind the whiplash.

by Jerold J. Kreisman 1989 288 pages

3.79

16k+ ratings

🧠 Personality Disorders 🌪️ Borderline Personality 🎢 Emotional Dysregulation

Obsessed

by Allison Britz • 2017

A nightmare about brain cancer traps a high-achieving teen in rituals she cannot explain or escape.

3.91

6k+

🧠 Living With Ocd 💯 Perfectionism 🛋️ Healing Journey

Immersive

Obsessed

A nightmare about brain cancer traps a high-achieving teen in rituals she cannot explain or escape.

by Allison Britz 2017 368 pages

3.91

6k+ ratings

🧠 Living With Ocd 💯 Perfectionism 🛋️ Healing Journey

All the Bright Places

by Jennifer Niven • 2015

A grieving girl meets a troubled boy on a ledge. Wandering Indiana, they fall in love.

4.11

600k+

🖤 Tragic Teen Love 💔 Mental Health Romance 🧠 Bipolar Representation

All the Bright Places

A grieving girl meets a troubled boy on a ledge. Wandering Indiana, they fall in love.

by Jennifer Niven 2015 388 pages

4.11

600k+ ratings

🖤 Tragic Teen Love 💔 Mental Health Romance 🧠 Bipolar Representation

The Blind Owl

by Sadegh Hedayat • 1937

Between opium dreams and waking torment, a painter obsesses over a vision that unmakes his reality.

3.95

35k+

🔪 Psychological Horror 📜 Modernist Classic 🫣 Unreliable Narrator

The Blind Owl

Between opium dreams and waking torment, a painter obsesses over a vision that unmakes his reality.

by Sadegh Hedayat 1937 148 pages

3.95

35k+ ratings

🔪 Psychological Horror 📜 Modernist Classic 🫣 Unreliable Narrator

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

by Ken Kesey • 1962

A gambler fakes insanity and discovers the mental ward's head nurse is the true warden.

4.20

700k+

🏥 Psychiatric Institution 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔥 Charismatic Rebel

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

A gambler fakes insanity and discovers the mental ward's head nurse is the true warden.

by Ken Kesey 1962 325 pages

4.20

700k+ ratings

🏥 Psychiatric Institution 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔥 Charismatic Rebel

The Prince of Tides

by Pat Conroy • 1986

His twin's silence drives a Southern coach to tell the family secrets that almost destroyed them.

4.26

200k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 💔 Childhood Trauma

The Prince of Tides

His twin's silence drives a Southern coach to tell the family secrets that almost destroyed them.

by Pat Conroy 1986 679 pages

4.26

200k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 💔 Childhood Trauma

Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism

by Otto F. Kernberg • 1975

Borderline is a stable pathology, not a transient phase. Splitting locks its contradictions apart.

4.2

203

🧠 Personality Disorders 👤 Object Relations 🛡️ Defense Mechanisms

Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism

Borderline is a stable pathology, not a transient phase. Splitting locks its contradictions apart.

by Otto F. Kernberg 1975 376 pages

4.2

203 ratings

🧠 Personality Disorders 👤 Object Relations 🛡️ Defense Mechanisms

Hello Beautiful

by Ann Napolitano • 2023

William marries into four sisters' lives. His hidden sorrow will fracture and remake their family.

4.13

500k+

🏠 Family Saga 🌸 Four Sisters 🇮🇹 Italian American Family

Hello Beautiful

William marries into four sisters' lives. His hidden sorrow will fracture and remake their family.

by Ann Napolitano 2023 594 pages

4.13

500k+ ratings

🏠 Family Saga 🌸 Four Sisters 🇮🇹 Italian American Family

Narcissistic Mothers

by Caroline Foster • 2021

Narcissistic mothers install a critic in your head. Evict it and reclaim your life.

4.19

1k+

🧪 Toxic Parenting 💔 Abuse Recovery 🚧 Setting Boundaries

Narcissistic Mothers

Narcissistic mothers install a critic in your head. Evict it and reclaim your life.

by Caroline Foster 2021 125 pages

4.19

1k+ ratings

🧪 Toxic Parenting 💔 Abuse Recovery 🚧 Setting Boundaries

The Mask of Sanity

by Hervey M. Cleckley • 1941

Intelligent, charming, incapable of love or remorse. The study that first defined psychopathy.

3.99

1k+

🧠 Clinical Psychopathy 📋 Personality Disorders 💔 Empathy Deficits

The Mask of Sanity

Intelligent, charming, incapable of love or remorse. The study that first defined psychopathy.

by Hervey M. Cleckley 1941 596 pages

3.99

1k+ ratings

🧠 Clinical Psychopathy 📋 Personality Disorders 💔 Empathy Deficits

Fish

by Stephen C. Lundin • 1996

She broke rules to escape the void where empathy and guilt should have been.

3.92

29k+

🩺 Clinical Memoir 🧠 Neurodivergent Memoir 🎭 Masking And Mimicry

Fish

She broke rules to escape the void where empathy and guilt should have been.

by Stephen C. Lundin 1996 112 pages

3.92

29k+ ratings

🩺 Clinical Memoir 🧠 Neurodivergent Memoir 🎭 Masking And Mimicry

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls • 2005

She was three when her dress burst into flames. Her parents called it an adventure.

4.33

1.3M+

🏚️ Family Dysfunction 🍺 Alcoholic Parent 🚪 Escaping Poverty

The Glass Castle

She was three when her dress burst into flames. Her parents called it an adventure.

by Jeannette Walls 2005 288 pages

4.33

1.3M+ ratings

🏚️ Family Dysfunction 🍺 Alcoholic Parent 🚪 Escaping Poverty

The Woman in the Window

by A.J. Finn • 2018

An agoraphobic psychologist sees a stabbing, but the body vanishes and the victim reappears alive.

3.94

800k+

🏠 Domestic Thriller 👁️ Voyeur Thriller 🧠 Psych Suspense

The Woman in the Window

An agoraphobic psychologist sees a stabbing, but the body vanishes and the victim reappears alive.

by A.J. Finn 2018 455 pages

3.94

800k+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Thriller 👁️ Voyeur Thriller 🧠 Psych Suspense

Awakenings

by Oliver Sacks • 1973

Patients frozen for decades woke on a single drug. The real trial was staying awake.

4.09

14k+

🔬 Clinical Neurology 🫀 Humanistic Medicine 🧠 Neuroplasticity

Awakenings

Patients frozen for decades woke on a single drug. The real trial was staying awake.

by Oliver Sacks 1973 567 pages

4.09

14k+ ratings

🔬 Clinical Neurology 🫀 Humanistic Medicine 🧠 Neuroplasticity

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1869

A guileless prince returns from a Swiss sanatorium into a Russia of love, obsession, and ruin.

4.21

200k+

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🕊️ Holy Fool 💔 Doomed Love

The Idiot

A guileless prince returns from a Swiss sanatorium into a Russia of love, obsession, and ruin.

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 667 pages

4.21

200k+ ratings

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🕊️ Holy Fool 💔 Doomed Love

The House of Hunger

by Dambudzo Marechera • 1978

He leaves the house that starved him, but the starvation has moved inside him forever.

3.95

1k+

🌍 Post-Colonial Fiction 🧠 Psychological Breakdown 🪞 Internalized Oppression

The House of Hunger

He leaves the house that starved him, but the starvation has moved inside him forever.

by Dambudzo Marechera 1978 160 pages

3.95

1k+ ratings

🌍 Post-Colonial Fiction 🧠 Psychological Breakdown 🪞 Internalized Oppression

Turtles All the Way Down

by John Green • 2017

She spirals. A missing billionaire, his son, and a reward pull her into the world.

3.87

600k+

🌀 Ocd Representation 💚 Mental Health Recovery 🕵️ Amateur Mystery

Turtles All the Way Down

She spirals. A missing billionaire, his son, and a reward pull her into the world.

by John Green 2017 290 pages

3.87

600k+ ratings

🌀 Ocd Representation 💚 Mental Health Recovery 🕵️ Amateur Mystery

An Unquiet Mind

by Kay Redfield Jamison • 1995

A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.

4.06

86k+

🎭 Bipolar Disorder 📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🩺 Patient As Expert

An Unquiet Mind

A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.

by Kay Redfield Jamison 1995 219 pages

4.06

86k+ ratings

🎭 Bipolar Disorder 📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🩺 Patient As Expert

The Burnout Society

by Byung-Chul Han • 2010

We replaced discipline with achievement, and it didn't set us free. It made us sick.

3.85

30k+

📖 Critical Theory 🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🏥 Social Pathology

The Burnout Society

We replaced discipline with achievement, and it didn't set us free. It made us sick.

by Byung-Chul Han 2010 60 pages

3.85

30k+ ratings

📖 Critical Theory 🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🏥 Social Pathology

Yo te inventé

by Francesca Zappia

Her first friend was a hallucination. Now he's her chemistry partner, and she's falling.

4.02

30k+

🧠 Mental Health Ya 💥 Enemies To Lovers 👁️ Unreliable Narrator

Immersive

Yo te inventé

Her first friend was a hallucination. Now he's her chemistry partner, and she's falling.

by Francesca Zappia 2015 584 pages

4.02

30k+ ratings

🧠 Mental Health Ya 💥 Enemies To Lovers 👁️ Unreliable Narrator

The Center Cannot Hold

by Elyn R. Saks • 2007

Restraints, psychosis, forced medication. Then a Yale law degree and tenure, against all odds.

4.33

23k+

📖 Psychosis Memoirs 🧠 Chronic Mental Illness 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Tradition

The Center Cannot Hold

Restraints, psychosis, forced medication. Then a Yale law degree and tenure, against all odds.

by Elyn R. Saks 2007 351 pages

4.33

23k+ ratings

📖 Psychosis Memoirs 🧠 Chronic Mental Illness 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Tradition

Building a Life Worth Living

by Marsha M. Linehan • 2020

The psychologist who created DBT was once the suicidal teenager no treatment could reach.

4.10

6k+

🧠 Mental Health Memoir 🛟 Suicide Prevention 🏥 Clinical Psychology

Building a Life Worth Living

The psychologist who created DBT was once the suicidal teenager no treatment could reach.

by Marsha M. Linehan 2020 384 pages

4.10

6k+ ratings

🧠 Mental Health Memoir 🛟 Suicide Prevention 🏥 Clinical Psychology

Wide Sargasso Sea

by Jean Rhys • 1966

A Creole heiress marries an English stranger only to watch her name and her sanity dissolve.

3.59

100k+

🏚️ Caribbean Gothic 📖 Literary Retelling 💍 Arranged Marriage

Wide Sargasso Sea

A Creole heiress marries an English stranger only to watch her name and her sanity dissolve.

by Jean Rhys 1966 176 pages

3.59

100k+ ratings

🏚️ Caribbean Gothic 📖 Literary Retelling 💍 Arranged Marriage

No Tomorrow

by Carian Cole • 2018

When a shy woman falls for a homeless street musician, his addiction keeps tearing them apart.

4.15

22k+

💫 Second Chance Love 🎸 Wounded Musician Hero 💊 Addiction And Recovery

No Tomorrow

When a shy woman falls for a homeless street musician, his addiction keeps tearing them apart.

by Carian Cole 2018 627 pages

4.15

22k+ ratings

💫 Second Chance Love 🎸 Wounded Musician Hero 💊 Addiction And Recovery

Darkness Visible

by William Styron • 1990

Depression is not sadness. A Pulitzer-winning novelist on the illness that feels like drowning.

3.99

31k+

🩺 Clinical Depression ✍️ Literary Memoir 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir

Darkness Visible

Depression is not sadness. A Pulitzer-winning novelist on the illness that feels like drowning.

by William Styron 1990 84 pages

3.99

31k+ ratings

🩺 Clinical Depression ✍️ Literary Memoir 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir

Saving Normal

by Allen Frances • 2013

The psychiatrist who chaired the DSM-IV explains why normal human suffering now earns a diagnosis.

3.85

1k+

🏥 Psychiatric Overdiagnosis 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🩺 Medicalization Critique

Saving Normal

The psychiatrist who chaired the DSM-IV explains why normal human suffering now earns a diagnosis.

by Allen Frances 2013 336 pages

3.85

1k+ ratings

🏥 Psychiatric Overdiagnosis 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🩺 Medicalization Critique

Sybil

by Flora Rheta Schreiber • 1973

Sixteen selves, one body, and a childhood so brutal the mind split to survive it.

3.99

91k+

🎭 Dissociative Identity 🧒 Childhood Trauma 🏥 Clinical Case Studies

Sybil

Sixteen selves, one body, and a childhood so brutal the mind split to survive it.

by Flora Rheta Schreiber 1973 481 pages

3.99

91k+ ratings

🎭 Dissociative Identity 🧒 Childhood Trauma 🏥 Clinical Case Studies

The Everything Health Guide to Adult ADD/ADHD

by Carole Jacobs • 2010

Adult ADHD is real, treatable, and comes with hidden strengths. The full toolkit, minus the stigma.

3.55

🧠 Adult Adhd 💊 Medication Management 🗣️ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

The Everything Health Guide to Adult ADD/ADHD

Adult ADHD is real, treatable, and comes with hidden strengths. The full toolkit, minus the stigma.

by Carole Jacobs 2010 304 pages

3.55

56 ratings

🧠 Adult Adhd 💊 Medication Management 🗣️ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Destiny of the Republic

by Candice Millard • 2011

Survivable gunshot, deadly cure: a madman, a president, and the medical failure that finished him.

4.24

86k+

🗳️ Gilded Age Politics ⚕️ Medical History 🏛️ Presidential Biography

Destiny of the Republic

Survivable gunshot, deadly cure: a madman, a president, and the medical failure that finished him.

by Candice Millard 2011 339 pages

4.24

86k+ ratings

🗳️ Gilded Age Politics ⚕️ Medical History 🏛️ Presidential Biography

It's Kind of a Funny Story

by Ned Vizzini • 2006

Craig got into the best school in Manhattan. Then his mind tried to kill him.

4.07

200k+

🏥 Teen Psychiatric Ward 🌧️ Teenage Depression 🤝 Found Family

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Craig got into the best school in Manhattan. Then his mind tried to kill him.

by Ned Vizzini 2006 444 pages

4.07

200k+ ratings

🏥 Teen Psychiatric Ward 🌧️ Teenage Depression 🤝 Found Family

Don't F*cking Panic

by Kelsey Darragh • 2020

Panic attacks don't fight fair. A toolkit that doesn't either: real techniques from the trenches.

3.97

1k+

😰 Anxiety Management 😱 Panic Attacks 🌧️ Depression Recovery

Don't F*cking Panic

Panic attacks don't fight fair. A toolkit that doesn't either: real techniques from the trenches.

by Kelsey Darragh 2020 370 pages

3.97

1k+ ratings

😰 Anxiety Management 😱 Panic Attacks 🌧️ Depression Recovery

Stop Walking on Eggshells

by Paul T. Mason • 1998

BPD rewrites the relationship rules. Learn the boundaries and communication that keep you whole.

4.02

13k+

🫂 Bpd Loved Ones 🧠 Personality Disorders 🧱 Boundary Setting

Stop Walking on Eggshells

BPD rewrites the relationship rules. Learn the boundaries and communication that keep you whole.

by Paul T. Mason 1998 260 pages

4.02

13k+ ratings

🫂 Bpd Loved Ones 🧠 Personality Disorders 🧱 Boundary Setting

Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

by Stephanie M. Kriesberg PsyD • 2022

Daughters of narcissistic mothers: quiet self-doubt, set boundaries that stick, trust your own mind.

3.96

2k+

🪞 Narcissistic Parenting 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Relationships 🧒 Adult Children Of Narcissists

Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

Daughters of narcissistic mothers: quiet self-doubt, set boundaries that stick, trust your own mind.

by Stephanie M. Kriesberg PsyD 2022 186 pages

3.96

2k+ ratings

🪞 Narcissistic Parenting 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Relationships 🧒 Adult Children Of Narcissists

Buddha & the Borderline

by Kiera Van Gelder • 2010

BPD nearly killed her. Buddhist practice and a radical therapy brought her back.

4.11

4k+

🧠 Bpd Recovery 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir 🧰 Dbt Skills

Buddha & the Borderline

BPD nearly killed her. Buddhist practice and a radical therapy brought her back.

by Kiera Van Gelder 2010

4.11

4k+ ratings

🧠 Bpd Recovery 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir 🧰 Dbt Skills

Phantom Limb

by Lucinda Berry • 2016

After her fragile twin's suicide, she wakes in a psychiatric ward with scars she didn't make.

3.89

68k+

🔪 Psychological Thriller 👯 Twin Bond 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Phantom Limb

After her fragile twin's suicide, she wakes in a psychiatric ward with scars she didn't make.

by Lucinda Berry 2016 260 pages

3.89

68k+ ratings

🔪 Psychological Thriller 👯 Twin Bond 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Insomnia

by Sarah Pinborough • 2022

A lawyer nears forty sleepless, terrified she'll inherit the madness that destroyed her mother.

3.69

35k+

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🔄 Generational Trauma

Insomnia

A lawyer nears forty sleepless, terrified she'll inherit the madness that destroyed her mother.

by Sarah Pinborough 2022 336 pages

3.69

35k+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🔄 Generational Trauma

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation

by Onno van der Hart • 2011

When trauma splinters the self into disconnected parts: the skills for restoring inner dialogue.

4.32

500+

🩹 Trauma Recovery 🧩 Dissociative Disorders ⚓ Grounding Techniques

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation

When trauma splinters the self into disconnected parts: the skills for restoring inner dialogue.

by Onno van der Hart 2011 496 pages

4.32

500+ ratings

🩹 Trauma Recovery 🧩 Dissociative Disorders ⚓ Grounding Techniques

Ten Days in a Mad-House

by Nellie Bly • 1887

A reporter faked madness and got committed. Ten days among 1,600 women, freezing and starved.

3.86

24k+

🗞️ Muckraking Journalism 🏥 Psychiatric Abuse ⚖️ Wrongful Commitment

Ten Days in a Mad-House

A reporter faked madness and got committed. Ten days among 1,600 women, freezing and starved.

by Nellie Bly 1887 97 pages

3.86

24k+ ratings

🗞️ Muckraking Journalism 🏥 Psychiatric Abuse ⚖️ Wrongful Commitment

The Psychopath Whisperer

by Kent A. Kiehl • 2014

Psychopaths share a brain deficit visible by childhood, discovered inside prison with a mobile MRI.

4.07

3k+

🏛️ Forensic Psychology 🧠 Neurocriminology 🎭 Antisocial Personality

The Psychopath Whisperer

Psychopaths share a brain deficit visible by childhood, discovered inside prison with a mobile MRI.

by Kent A. Kiehl 2014 304 pages

4.07

3k+ ratings

🏛️ Forensic Psychology 🧠 Neurocriminology 🎭 Antisocial Personality

Stop Walking on Eggshells

by Paul T. Mason • 1998

Loved someone with BPD? How to halt the chaos, set boundaries that hold, and reclaim yourself.

4.02

13k+

🧠 Borderline Personality Disorder 🧩 Personality Disorders 🚧 Boundary Setting

Stop Walking on Eggshells

Loved someone with BPD? How to halt the chaos, set boundaries that hold, and reclaim yourself.

by Paul T. Mason 1998 258 pages

4.02

13k+ ratings

🧠 Borderline Personality Disorder 🧩 Personality Disorders 🚧 Boundary Setting

The Anxious Truth

by Drew Linsalata • 2020

Anxiety feeds on resistance. The plan that reverses it: surrender and do the opposite.

4.50

306

🧠 Anxiety Disorders 🏠 Agoraphobia 🪜 Exposure Therapy

The Anxious Truth

Anxiety feeds on resistance. The plan that reverses it: surrender and do the opposite.

by Drew Linsalata 2020 386 pages

4.50

306 ratings

🧠 Anxiety Disorders 🏠 Agoraphobia 🪜 Exposure Therapy

Furiously Happy

by Jenny Lawson • 2015

When despair says forever, fight back with taxidermy, defiant joy, and inappropriate laughter.

3.89

100k+

🧠 Mental Illness Memoir ✨ Defiant Joy 💜 Radical Self-Acceptance

Furiously Happy

When despair says forever, fight back with taxidermy, defiant joy, and inappropriate laughter.

by Jenny Lawson 2015 329 pages

3.89

100k+ ratings

🧠 Mental Illness Memoir ✨ Defiant Joy 💜 Radical Self-Acceptance

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