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Mental Health Awareness : home

The many ways that mental illness affects our everyday lives

Infographic courtesy of NAMI-National Alliance on Mental Illness

Works of fiction dealing with mental illness

The bell jar

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

The color purple

Private Peaceful

Everything I never told you

Beloved

Nonfiction books dealing with mental illness

When the body says no: exploring the stress-disease connection

(Don't) call me crazy: 33 voices start the conversation about mental health

Because we are bad: OCD and a girl lost in thought

Gracefully Insane : The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital

Mental health information for teens : health tips about mental wellness and mental illness : including facts about mental and emotional health, depression and other mood disorders, anxiety disorders, behavior disorders, self-injury, psychosis, schizophren

Brave new brain : conquering mental illness in the era of the genome

Psychiatric nursing made incredibly easy!

The origins of happiness : the science of well-being over the life course

Voices of bipolar disorder : the healing companion : stories for courage, comfort and strength

Rambler: a family pushes through the fog of mental illness

A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia

The unbalanced mind

The bipolar child

Pushbutton Psychiatry : A Cultural History of Electric Shock Therapy in America

Empowering People with Severe Mental Illness : A Practical Guide

Mental Illness, Discrimination and the Law : Fighting for Social Justice

The Mark of Shame : Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change

Sailing on broken pieces: essential survival skills for recovery from mental illness

Asperger's Syndrome and High Achievement : Some Very Remarkable People

Rural Mental Health : Issues, Policies, and Best Practices

Lifelong Engagement with Music : Benefits for Mental Health and Well-Being

Working with Ethnicity, Race and Culture in Mental Health : A Handbook for Practitioners

Mental illness in America: how do we address a growing problem?

Doctoring the mind: is our current treatment of mental illness really any good?

Asylum on the hill: history of a healing landscape

Introducing mental health nursing: a service user-oriented approach

TED Talk: The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong | Amy Morin