 | Girl, Interrupted: Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie by Susanna Kaysen
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.45 This is not an 'easy-read novel', more a case history of Susanna Kaysen's true life as she gets admitted to a mental institute. The film is loosely based on this original text.
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 | Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Buy new: £5.22 / Used from: £0.01 One of the first good books I read about mental illness. A good read, but often a little hard to keep your concentration. An introduction to the world of Prozac.
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 | Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You (Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction) by Sue William Silverman
Buy new: £16.63 / Used from: £1.29 FANTASTIC!! A heart-wrenching true account of a childhood filled with sexual abuse, incest, rape and misery, and the eventual recovery in adulthood.
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 | Disconnected (Collins Flamingo) by Sherry Ashworth
Buy used from: £0.01 A true story of a young girl trying to find herself amidst depression, loneliness and parental pressure. Written as a series of letters to people in her life.
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 | The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy used from: £0.01 Better than the film version, as it allows your imagination to create it's own impression of the four sisters whose fragile lives fall apart
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 | My Father's House: Memoir of Incest and Healing by Sylvia Fraser
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 An intimate true story of abuse and incest, as Sylvia Fraser recounts her childhood as two different girls, one the normal self, one, a girl who does things the other is too scared and ashamed to do.
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 | Cut (Collins Flamingo) by Patricia McCormick
Buy used from: £0.56 A quiet, under-stated story of an American girl's admission to a mental institute after the discovery of her self-harming behaviours.
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 | Stop Pretending: What happened when my big sister went crazy by Sonya Sones
Buy used from: £0.01 Written as a series of poems inspired by the author's life, this is a sensitive incite into the lives of a family living with nightmare of mental illness.
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 | Skin Game: A Memoir by Caroline Kettlewell
Buy new: £6.09 / Used from: £2.05 A true story of a young girl's journey through the torments of a depressed childhood. It follows her path through cutting, and on to her recovery as she overcomes the addiction of self injury.
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 | My Hungry Hell: What it's Really Like to be Anorexic - A Personal Story by Kate Chisholm
Buy used from: £0.01 A graphic look into the world of anorexia, as we are taken back to the author's hospitalisation for the disease.
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 | Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £2.92 A fantastic look at the life of eating disorders! Very personal and absorbing! A must-read!!!
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 | Wasted by Mikki Goffin
Buy used from: £0.01 A FANTASTIC book. Made me laugh hysterically and then sob for over an hour. It tells the story of a sister's downward spiral into drug-induced schizophrenia.
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 | Ghost Girl by Torey L. Hayden
Buy used from: £0.01 I was really touched by this book, especially as it's a true story! Torey Hayden is amazing!
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 | Beautiful Child by Torey L. Hayden
Buy used from: £1.00 Another amazing true-life book by Torey Hayden about an abused child!
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 | Toxic Parents; Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life by Susan Forward
Buy new: £6.54 / Used from: £4.28 A very informative and useful book for anyone with 'toxic' parents!
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 | I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass
Buy new: £6.07 / Used from: £1.73 A very touching and interesting book which tells the stories of numerous survivors of sexual abuse.
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 | Asylum by Patrick McGrath
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.01 This could be fact rather than fiction. A very absorbing story of madness, love and obsession. A very good read.
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