Books for recovery

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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!

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:

• A Bright Red Scream
• Bloodletting
• Bodily Harm
• Cutting
• Inside A Cutter’s MindThe Tender Cut

Suicide:

• Choosing to Live
• Hello Cruel World
• Suicide: The Forever Decision

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

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