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Mental Health Awareness Month May 2022 |
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Rage becomes her : The Power of Women's Anger
by Soraya L. Chemaly
155.333 CHE
The director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project urges 21st-century women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.
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Marbles : Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
by Ellen Forney
GN FOR
An artist describes her bipolar disorder diagnosis and her struggles with mental stability while discussing other artists and creative people throughout history who were also labeled as “crazy” including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe and Sylvia Plath.
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See no stranger : a memoir and manifesto of revolutionary love
by Valarie Kaur
177.7 KAU
A leading Sikh activist blends the approaches of historical civil rights leaders to outline the practice of Revolutionary Love as an effective response to violence and division, explaining how its moral applications can facilitate transformative political and social change.
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Return to nature : the new science of how natural landscapes restore us
by Emma Loewe
155.91 LOE
"From MindBodyGreen's Senior Sustainability Editor and the co-author of The Spirit Almanac comes a four-color guide to reconnecting with the outdoors, with new research on how nature heals us as well as tools for becoming stewards of the earth that nurtures our mind"
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Mental health disorders sourcebook : basic consumer health information about healthy brain functioning and mental illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychotic and personality disorders, eating disorders, compulsive hoarding disorder and more; along with information about medications and treatments, mental health concerns in specific groups, such as children, adolescents, older adults, minority populations, and LGBT community, a glossary of related terms, and directories of resources for additional help and information
by Omnigraphics Inc.
616.89 MEN
Provides basic consumer health information about the signs, symptoms, and treatment of various mental illnesses, and the special mental health concerns of children and adolescents, older adults, the LGBT community, and immigrant populations. Along with tips for maintaining mental wellness it also includes an index, glossary of related terms, and other resources.
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Burnout : the secret to unlocking the stress cycle
by Emily Nagoski
155.9042 NAG
The best-selling author of Come as You Are and her sister reveal why women experience burnout differently than men, outlining science-based, feminist recommendations for reducing stress, resisting negative media and befriending one's inner critic. Includes pie charts, worksheets and graphs.
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What happened to you? : conversations on trauma, resilience, and healing
by Bruce Duncan Perry
616.8521 PER
Oprah Winfrey, sharing stories from her own past, and a renowned brain development and trauma expert discuss the impact of trauma and adversity and how healing must begin with a shift to asking, “what happened to you?,” rather than “what’s wrong with you?”
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Yoke : My Yoga of Self-acceptance
by Jessamyn Stanley
613.7046 STA
The author of Every Body Yoga invites readers to find their own authentic “yoga of the everyday,” and learn to handle life’s toughest moments with the same flexibility, strength, grounding energy, and core awareness found in a headstand or Tadasana or cobra pose.
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First, we make the beast beautiful : a new journey through anxiety
by Sarah Wilson
616.8522 WIl
The best-selling author of I Quit Sugar challenges cultural beliefs about anxiety from the perspectives of medical and spiritual leaders and the Chinese proverb, "To conquer a beast, you must first make it beautiful," to explore how the condition needs to be viewed less as a burdensome affliction and more as a source of divine growth.
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Shades of light : a novel
by Sharon Garlough Brown
F BRO
Wren Crawford is a social worker who finds herself overwhelmed with the troubles of the world. Her lifelong struggles with anxiety and depression are starting to overcome her. She finds solace in art, spiritual formation, and pastoral care along with traditional therapeutic interventions. But a complicated relationship from her past also threatens to undo her progress. As Wren seeks healing in this beautifully written novel, readers are invited to move beyond pat answers and shallow theology into an experience of hope and presence that illuminates even the darkness.
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The surprising power of a good dumpling
by Wai Chim
YA F CHI
Working almost constantly to help out at her father’s restaurant and care for her siblings, a teen from a migrant Asian family starts dating a delivery boy before her mother’s progressing mental illness upends everything she understood about her family.
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Mrs. Lincoln's sisters : a novel
by Jennifer Chiaverini
F CHI
Devastated by her 1875 suicide attempt, the sisters of widowed former First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln navigate the consequences of their husbands’ choices while advocating for Mary’s needs.
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Yolk
by Mary H. K. Choi
YA F CHOI
Estranged over disagreements about their respective life choices, a straitlaced older sister and a flaky younger sister test the limits of what they are willing to do for each other, including swapping identities, when one is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
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Imagine me gone : a novel
by Adam Haslet
F HAS
Electing to marry the fiancé who is hospitalized for depression, a woman commits to decades of love and faith involving their brilliant musical eldest son, their responsible daughter and a tightly controlled younger son who helps her care for her increasingly troubled husband. By the Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of You Are Not a Stranger Here.
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Morningside Heights
by Joshua Henkin
F HEN
When the health of her husband, a brilliant Shakespeare professor, starts declining, Pru, struggling on her own and feeling isolated, meets a man with whom the possibility of new Romance blooms until her estranged stepson, a wealthy biotech investor, come back into their lives.
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The book of mother : a novel
by Violaine Huisman translated from French by Leslie Camhi
F HUI
In this beautifully written, critically acclaimed debut novel, Violaine and her sister, when their Maman returns from being hospitalized for a breakdown, find their home turning into an emotional landmine due to Maman’s violent mood swings and flagrant disregard for personal boundaries.
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Rabbits for food
by Binnie Kirshenbaum
F KIR
A clinically depressed writer who has a breakdown on New Year’s Eve chronicles the lives of her fellow "lunatics" in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital in this new novel from the author of On Mermaid Avenue.
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Darius the Great is not okay
by Adib Khorram
YA F KOH
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
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My year abroad
by Chang-rae Lee
F LEE
An everyday American college student finds his life transformed by a Chinese-American businessman who unexpectedly takes him under his wing on a series of whimsical, heartbreaking and darkly shocking adventures throughout Asia. By the award-winning author of Native Speaker.
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Everything here is beautiful
by Mira T. Lee
YA F LEE
The bond between a responsible, self-contained older sister and her mentally ill, impulsive younger sister is shaped and tested over years marked by the loss of their mother, an impetuous first marriage, a fling that results in the birth of a baby and painful sacrifices.
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Woman 99 : a novel
by Greer Macallister
F MAC
Going undercover to rescue her wrongly committed sister from a notorious asylum, Charlotte uncovers a dangerous secret about the institution and why their fellow inmates were put away.
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All my puny sorrows
by Miriam Toews
F TOW
Two Mennonite sisters, Elfrieda and Yolandi, struggle with Elf's depression and attempts to end her life while holding their family together. By the author of Summer of My Amazing Luck.
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