Show me all your scars : true stories of living with mental illness

Book 2016

Every year, one in four American adults suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder. In these true stories, writers and their loved ones struggle as their worlds are upended. What do you do when your father kills himself, or your mother is committed to a psych ward, or your daughter starts hearing voices telling her to harm herselfor when you yourself hear such voices? Addressing bipolar disorder, OCD, trichillomania, self-harm, PTSD, and o...

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ISBN:

9781937163259
1937163253

Description:

xi, 257 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

True stories of living with mental illness

Notes:

"20 fascinating journeys through madness"--Page 4 of cover

Contents:

Take care / Ella Wilson
Chairs / Yvette Frock Gottshall
A little crazy / Susie Meserve
Goodbye, suicide / Optimism One
Show me all your scars : why people hurt themselves and what they can teach us / Jane Campbell
Flying high / Andrea Rizzo
How I became an angel / Jennifer Metsker
True Americans / Andy Smart
'Scuse me while I fuck the sky / Ryan Bloom
One of those / Annita Sawyer
Make it a daisy / Joyce O'Connor
A day in the life with bipolar illness, and nine years later / Madeline Strong Diehl
A blessing / Leslie Smith Townsend
The pain that tore in you an ocean / Chloë Mattingly
There's a name for that? : living with trichotillomania / Alison Townsend
Playing catch / Terri Sherrill
Another trail of breadcrumbs / Peg Quinn
Like a scratch on vinyl / Beazie Griffin
Sequelae : the inner war / Beth Wiles
Thief of souls / Jessamine Price

Control Number:

1692456

Other Authors:

Feinstein, Karen Wolk, author of foreword
Gutkind, Lee, editor
Kennedy, Patrick J., author of introduction

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