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The catastrophic worrier: why you worry & how to stop
by Graham Davey
152.46 DAV
Discussing the psychological processes that contribute to catastrophizing, a leading worry expert explains why we worry and offers easy-to-follow tips and exercises for letting go of anxiety, lifting your mood and managing your catastrophizing to live with uncertainty and embrace a life free of unnecessary worry.
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Black people breathe: a mindfulness guide to racial healing
by Zee Clarke
158.12 CLA
This practical guide features 33 mindfulness exercises centered on healing for the Black community, each focusing on the systemic challenges that people of color face and designed to deal with the emotions these experiences create.
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Body language: writers on identity, physicality, and making space for ourselves
by Nicole Chung
306.4 BOD
Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in Body Language affirm and challenge the personal and political conversations around human bodies from the perspectives of thirty writers diverse in race, age, gender, size, sexuality, health, ability, geography, and class —
a brilliant group probing and speaking their own truths about their bodies and identities, refusing to submit to others' expectations about how their bodies should look, function, and behave.
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Drama free: a guide to managing unhealthy family relationships
by Nedra Glover Tawwab
362.82 TAW
The author of the New York Times bestseller Set Boundaries, Find Peace presents a guide for overcoming family struggles such as the trauma of emotional neglect, the legacy of addicted parents and mental health issues.
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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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Change your brain every day: simple daily practices to strengthen your mind, memory, moods, focus, energy, habits, and relationships
by Daniel G. Amen
616.89 AME
In Change Your Brain Every Day psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen, MD, draws on over 40 years' clinical practice with tens of thousands of patients to give you the most effective daily habits he has seen that can help you improve your brain, master your mind, boost your memory, and make you feel happier, healthier, and more connected to those you love.
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Ab(solutely) normal: short stories that smash mental health stereotypes
by Nora Carpenter
YA F ABS
In this powerful collection of prose, verse and graphics — all of which defy mental health stereotypes — 16 authors introduce an unforgettable cast of characters who remind readers that living with a mental health condition doesn't mean you're defined by it.
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The school for good mothers
by Jessamine Chan
F CHA
After one moment of poor judgment involving her daughter Harriet, Frida Liu falls victim to a host of government officials who will determine if she is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother’s devotion.
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Liar, dreamer, thief
by Maria Dong
F DON
A woman with OCD and carefully constructed coping mechanisms has her world crumble around her when she witnesses her unrequited crush and coworker jumping off the Cayatoga Bridge with an accusation that it's all her fault.
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The midnight library
by Matt Haig
F HAI
Staff Pick from Lisa -
Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist. She must search within herself as she travels through the "Midnight Library" to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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The immeasurable depth of you
by Maria Ingrande Mora
YA F ING
After her mother interprets one of her blog posts as a suicide note, 15-year-old death-obsessed Brynn is banished to stay with her father who lives “off the grid” in the Florida mangroves, where she must confront her worst fears to save the girl with whom she has fallen in love.
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We are all so good at smiling
by Amber McBride
YA F MCB
Whimsy, who is clinically depressed, befriends a boy named Faerry, with whom she feels a magical connection, and together they brave the Forest, a place of monsters, fairy tales and pain that they have both been running from for 11 years.
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Hello beautiful
by Ann Napolitano
F NAP
Awarded a college basketball scholarship away from his childhood home silenced by tragedy, a young man befriends a spirited young woman who welcomes him into her loving, loud, chaotic household, in the new novel by the author of Dear Edward.
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Adelaide
by Genevieve Wheeler
F WHE
A young American living in London with great friends and strong ambitions falls in love with a charming Englishman who is not as invested in the relationship as she is, resulting in a mental health crisis.
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Like a Boy but Not a Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary
by andrea bennett
SWAN Libraries
Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett's experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes-funny and sometimes-difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve incisively into the interconnected themes of mental illness, mortality, creative work, and class. With the same poignant spirit as Ivan Coyote's Tomboy Survival Guide, Like a Boy addresses the struggle to find acceptance, and to accept oneself; and how one can find one's place while learning to make space for others.
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What my bones know: a memoir of healing from complex trauma
by Stephanie Foo
B FOO
By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as a radio producer at "This American Life" and had won an Emmy. But behind her office door she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk. After years of questioning what was wrong with her, she was diagnosed with Complex PTSD — a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.
Powerful, enlightening, and clarifying, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body — and one woman's ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.
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I'm telling the truth, but I'm lying: essays
by Bassey Ikpi
SWAN libraries
A deeply personal collection of essays by the Nigerian-American writer and creator of #NoShameDay explores how her childhood move from Nigeria to Oklahoma was complicated by Bipolar II and anxiety disorders.
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Acceptance: a memoir
by Emi Nietfeld
B NIETFELD
The writer and software engineer looks back on her dysfunctional childhood years as a homeless teenager and eventual graduation from Harvard, and how society's fixation on resilience comes with a terrible cost.
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Hello I want to die please fix me: depression in the first person
by Anna Mehler Paperny
SWAN libraries
An investigative report on how depression is treated today shares stories from the author's personal journey with suicidal depression, and draws on interviews with patients and experts to explore how current systems need to change.
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Everything is ok
by Debbie Tung
SWAN libraries
Everything Is OK is the story of Debbie Tung's struggle with anxiety and her experience with depression. She shares what it's like navigating life, overthinking every possible worst-case scenario, and constantly feeling like all hope is lost. The book explores her journey to understanding the importance of mental health in her day-to-day life and how she learns to embrace the highs and lows when things feel out of control.
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Rise: my story
by Lindsey Vonn
796.93092 VON
One of the most decorated female skiers of all time and a fixture in the American sports landscape for almost 20 years shares her incredible journey, offering a fascinating glimpse into the relentless pursuit of her limits, which pushed her body and mind past their breaking points.
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The collected schizophrenias: essays
by Esmâe Weijun Wang
616.898 WAN
The award-wining author of The Border of Paradise presents a collection of evocative essays on mental illness that build on her own experiences with schizoaffective disorder, while examining the vulnerabilities of institutionalization, PTSD and Lyme disease.
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