Hidden Lives: Guest List by Brindle & Glass
In recognition of Mental Illness Awareness Week, which began Sunday, Sept. 30, we've put together a list of Canadian books that bring awareness to the various issues - from initial diagnosis and treatment options to the way it is handled by the health care system - and aim to break down the stigma that continues to surround mental illness. These works, most of them memoirs, offer keen insight into the lives of those suffering from mental illness as well as the lives of those around them. We have also included several novels - including a couple for young adults - to highlight how mental illness is dealt with in literature as another way to bring awareness to one of the most devastating of human tribulations.
Out of the Blue
A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness
After Her Brain Broke
Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity
My Schizophrenic Life
The Road to Recovery From Mental Illness
Out Loud
Essays on Mental Illness, Stigma and Recovery
Bitter Medicine
A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness
Scattered Minds
The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
An Audience of Chairs
The Flying Troutmans
Unless
Web of Angels
Magnified World
Strange Heaven
Three Little Words
Odd Man Out
Why Not?
Fifteen Reasons to Live