 | Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 This is a great book, I found it really easy to get into too which is good- lots of fiction on this subject I've found kinda heavy going to begin with.
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 | Prozac Diary by Lauren Slater
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 This is one of my favourite books on the subject.
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.75 / Used from: £0.29 A "classic", really well written :-)
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 | Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Buy new: £5.22 / Used from: £0.01 Another "classic". Managed to make me depressed from reading it, I think thats probably a good sign that it manages to convey some of the feelings and emotions effectively..
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 | 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: £0.19 I'm one of the few people who actually seems to have read the book without seeing (or even being aware) of the later film. Much prefer the book and can relate to it a lot.
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 | A Bright Red Scream: Self-mutilation and the Language of Pain (A Virago V) by Marilee Strong
Buy used from: £2.64 A book about self injury, good mix of factual info and personnal accounts.. Made me feel a little less alone and less like a freak.
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 | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Buy used from: £0.01 Wonderful book :-)
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 | Stop Pretending: What happened when my big sister went crazy by Sonya Sones
Buy used from: £0.01 Collection of poems dealing with the mental illness and hospitalisation of the authors sister. I read this in an hour or two when I should have been at college- really intense and well written.
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 | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 I like this, hard to get into- but once you get past the first few chapters its really good.. About a psychotherapist who decides to let a die make all his decisions.
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 | British National Formulary: v. 43
Buy used from: £0.01 Check meds you get out and know what they do, what side effects etc. BNF is one of the books you can look up meds- borrow one (don't buy- they change it every 6 months or so).
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 | Phone at Nine Just to Say You're Alive by Linda Hart
Buy used from: £4.13 |
 | The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer
Buy used from: £0.01 |
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