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Re: Depression or mental illness book recommendations - August 12th 2017, 02:58 AM

Anything by Ellen Hopkins! She writes only about teenage issues like depression, self harm, gender identity, etc... I highly recommend Impulse by her, it has three different view points from three different people in it about living in a mental institution.

If you're looking for classics I recommend Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, they made a movie about it you know it's a memoir about a girl just coming into adulthood and her experience in a mental institution.

There's also The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn, it depicts what life is like in a mental institution through the eyes of the author, she does add some fiction into her real life experience but it's still a wonderful book.

I'm way into these kinds of books as you can tell


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