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This list is meant for educational purposes and to help aid your recovery. It is *not* meant for self-diagnosis. If you are concerned about your mental health, please see a professional.
There are thousands more books and way more topics but this is just to get you started. I tried to stay away from religious books as well as books that focus on one gender over another.
There are only a handful of memoirs because they can be triggering.
ALWAYS USE CAUTION WITH READING MEMOIRS!
ALWAYS USE CAUTION WITH READING MEMOIRS!
Mental Health:
- 50 Signs of Mental Illness
- Creativity and Madness
- Family Guide to Mental Health Care
- Holistic Mental Health
- Mental Health, Naturally
- Psychology of Creativity
- Selecting Effective Treatments
- Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity, and Human Nature
- The Integrated Self
- The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy
Addiction & Substance Abuse:
- 12 Smart Things to Do When the Booze and Drugs Are Gone
- Beyond Addiction
- Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy
- Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening
- Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction
- Opiate Addiction
- Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction
- Powerless No Longer
- Recovery and Renewal
- Quitting Crystal Meth
Anxiety:
- Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
- Coping with OCD
- Dying of Embarrassment
- Loving Someone with OCD
- Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts
- The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook
Bipolar Disorder:
- 50 Shades of Bipolar: Poems and Reflections from a Twisted Mind
- An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Madness and Mood
- Beyond Bipolar
- Bipolar Disorder: Insights for Recovery
- Bipolar Strong
- Break the Bipolar Cycle
- Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light
- Facing Bipolar
- Finding Your Bipolar Muse
- Intense Minds: Through the Eyes of Young People with Bipolar Disorder
- In Two Minds: 50 Short Poems
- I’m Not Crazy Just Bipolar
- Living With Someone Who’s Living With Bipolar Disorder
- Less Than Crazy
- Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder
- Manic
- Manic Depression and Creativity
- Mind Race
- Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness
- Perfect Chaos
- Preventing Bipolar Relapse
- The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide
- The Bipolar Relationship
- The Tao of Bipolar
- The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder
- Touched with Fire
- Surviving Manic Depression
- Welcome to the Jungle
- When Someone You Love is Bipolar
Depression and Seasonal Affect Disorder:
- How You Can Survive When They’re Depressed
- Not Alone: Stories of Living with Depression
- Positive Options for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Unstuck
- What to Do When Someone You Love is Depressed
Dissociative Disorders:
- All of Me: How I Learned to Live with the Many Personalities Sharing My Body
- Amongst Ourselves
- Depersonalization: A New Look at a Neglected Syndrome
- Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self
- Multiple Personality Disorder from the Inside Out
- The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook
- The Stranger in the Mirror
Down Syndrome:
- Mental Wellness in Adults with Down Syndrome
- Teaching Children with Down Syndrome About Their Bodies, Boundries, and Sexuality
- The Down Syndrome Transition Handbook
- The Guide to Good Health for Teens & Adults with Down Syndrome
Eating Disorders:
- 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder
- Beating Ana
- Beating Eating Disorders Step by Step
- Binge No More
- Biting Anorexia
- Biting the Hand that Starves You
- Brain Over Binge
- Brave Girl Eating
- Compulsive Exercise and The Eating Disorders
- Crave
- Decoding Anorexia
- Eating Disorders and The Brain
- Eating Disorders: A Guide to Medical Care and Complications
- Eating Disorders in Sport
- Eating Disorder: Something Deeper
- Eat, Drink, and Be Mindful
- Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Binge Eating
- Food: The Good Girl’s Drug
- Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder
- Healing Your Hungry Heart
- Mindful Eating
- Next to Nothing
- Nutrition Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
- Overcoming Binge Eating
- Please Eat
- Regaining Your Self
- The Rules of “Normal” Eating
- Therapy for Eating Disorders
- Reclaiming Yourself from Binge Eating
- Restoring Our Bodies
- Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life
- Stop Eating Your Heart Out
- Telling ED No!
Medication:
- Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis
- Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine
- Mental Health Medications
- Saving Normal
- The Pill Book (15th Edition)
- Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry
Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Sensory Processing Disorders:
- Asperkids
- Be Different
- Can I Tell You About Asperger Syndrome?
- How to Make & Keep Friends
- Look Me in the Eye
- Managing Meltdowns
- Taking Care of Myself
- The Asperkid’s (Secret) Book of Social Rules
- The Autistic Brain
- The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome
- The Out-of-Sync Child
- The Reason I Jump
- Self-Regulation Interventions and Strategies
Personality Disorders:
- Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified
- Hard to Love: Understanding and Overcoming Male Borderline Personality Disorder
- I Hate You—Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
- Lost in the Mirror
- Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder
- Surviving a Borderline Parent
- The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide
- The Everything Guide to Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder
Pregnancy:
- A Mother’s Climb Out of Darkness
- Bipolar and Pregnant
- The Mother-to-Mother Postpartum Depression Support Book
- The Postpartum Husband
- Understanding Postpartum Psychosis: A Temporary Madness
Psychosis:
- Back to Live, Back to Normality
- Cognitive Therapy of Schizophrenia
- Delusional Disorder: Paranoia and Related Illnesses
- Getting Your Life Back Together When You Have Schizeophrenia
- Psychosis, Trauma, and Dissociation
- Stress Fracture: A Memoir of Psychosis
- Surviving Schizophrenia
- The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
- The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia
- Understanding Paranoia
Self Injury:
Suicide:
Workbooks:
- ACT Made Simple
- Breaking Free: A Recovery Workbook for Facing Codependence
- Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession, and Shame
- Calming the Emotional Storm
- CBT Skills Workbook
- Co-Occuring Disorders Workbook
- Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation
- Depressed and Anxious
- DBT Made Simple
- End Emotional Eating
- Finding Life Beyond Trauma
- Finding Your Voice Through Creativity
- Freedom From Self Harm
- Healing From Post-Traumatic Stress
- Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic Workbook
- Mind-Body Workbook for Anger
- Mind-Body Workbook for Anxiety
- Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD
- Mind-Body Workbook for Stress
- Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder
- Mind Over Mood
- Never Enough: A Recovery Workbook
- Overcoming Bulimia
- Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction
- Overcoming Paranoid and Suspicious Thoughts
- Overcoming Social Anxiety
- Overcoming Trauma and PTSD
- Overcoming Your Alcohol or Drug Problem
- Rational Recovery
- Reflections: An Eating Disorders Recovery Workbook
- REPAIR Your Life Workbook
- The Addiction Workbook
- The Anorexia Workbook
- The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook
- The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook
- The Bipolar II Disorder Workbook
- The Body Image Workbook
- The CBT Toolbox
- The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety
- The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook for Depression
- The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook for Personality Disorders
- The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook
- The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Anxiety
- The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Bulimia
- The Grief Recovery Handbook
- The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety
- The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction
- The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD
- The OCD Workbook
- The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook
- The PTSD Workbook
- The Sex Addiction Workbook
- The Substance Abuse & Recovery Workbook
- Stopping the Pain
- Stop the Chaos Workbook
- Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse Workbook
- When Panic Attacks
Other:
- Banish Your Body Image Theif
- Bouncing Back
- Broken Open
- How to Train a Wild Elephant
- Intuitive Self-Healing
- Mind Whispering
- Radical Acceptance
- The Art of Comforting
- The Book of Qualities
- The Core Journey: Unleash Your Power to Thrive
- The Dancing Self
- The Exercise Balance
- The Mindfulness Solution
- The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion
- The Mind-Made Prison
- The User’s Guide to the Human Mind
- Shut Up, Skinny Bitches!
- Simple Abundance
- You Are A Badass
- Your Body Never Lies
Thank you so much for this post izzy.... i just found a workbook that just may be able to help me with my past occurrence of sexual abuse. Thank you, thank you, thank you <3
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