Autobiography or books on emotional abuse, mental illness

[latenight]

Welcome your recommendation

 

[nomadic myth]

Maybe Running with Scissors, but reading it may be as painful as the possible result of doing the same.

 

[latenight]

But of the reviews seemed not to hightly recommend.....

 

[Jez]

I've read Prozac Nation and if it wasn't a requirement for school I never would have finished it. Awful.

I've heard Prozac Diary and An Unquiet Mind are both supposed to be good accounts. Depression and bipolar I believe.

What do you need them for?

 

[Gilgamesh]

I would think Don Quixote had mental illness.
How about Captain Ahab in the Moby Dick?
Then there was the big guy, Lennie, in Of Mice and Men.

One flew of the Cuckoo's nest!

 

[AsherNZ]

Maybe Running with Scissors, but reading it may be as painful as the possible result of doing the same.

I've read Running With Scissors and its...something else. Its an eye-opener, to be modest in my judgment. Worth a read though.

 

[AsherNZ]

A semi-autobiographical book thats amazing is Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. If you want insight into mental illness, thats the book for you.

 

[SFG75]

the mother of book of this topic has to be A Child Called It by David Pelzer. One of the more interesting ones is Nikki Sixx's recently released book, The Heroin Diaries, which chronicles his years of drug abuse as a member of Motley Crue.

 

[Poppy1]

Welcome To My Country (A Therapists Memoir of Madness) by Lauren Slater is an excellent book. She works with people with a variety of mental illnesses and has herself experienced mental illness. The over-riding theme is the power of love and connection and her writing has a prose-like quality. She also wrote Prozac Diary mentioned by Jez, I believe.

Although fictional, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kelsey is a wonderful read which I would highly recommend.