Mindful Walking: Walk Your Way to Mental and Physical Well-Being
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Six million years ago, the evolving human brain existed only to instruct our bodies to move. In...
After Zero
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Elise carries a notebook full of tallies, each page marking a day spent at her new public school,...
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The Man Who Couldn't Stop
David Adam and Daniel Philpott
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In this captivating fusion of science and personal memoir, writer David Adam explores the weird...
The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Girl on the Landing in Books
Oct 7, 2020
The Bipolar Addict
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The Bipolar Addict: Drinks, Drugs, Delirium & Why Sober Is the New Cool provides an insider’s look...
Hysterical Memories
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Here is the story of a man’s life that has been riddled and ruffled with emotionally unstable...
Bubblesreview (110 KP) rated A Note Of Madness in Books
Feb 9, 2019
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Following on, although I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and really appreciate the mental health awareness in it which is a rare find in a book, I found this a hard one to score higher than 7/10. This is solely due to the fact that the chapters are long, ranging on average at about 25+ pages. This made it difficult to stay focused and I found myself having to read back a couple of pages to recap. This is completely my own problem as I enjoy shorter chapters and I really dislike stopping half way through a chapter.
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Overall I 100% recommend this book. It's very underrated and deserves more awareness
Bookapotamus (289 KP) rated The History of Jane Doe in Books
May 29, 2018
Ray is a high-schooler history-buff in love with Jane. She enters his life and him and his best friend Simon are forever changed. But she hides some deep dark secrets that torment her and Ray has a hard time seeing into her head, as is usually the case when loving someone who is depressed, and he struggles to find his way through her dark past so that they can have a future. This is a history of her life, written by Ray, flipping between the past and present of one devastating day when everything changes.
Michael Belanger writes that he's experienced some painful episodes in his life, and it's evident in how eloquently he decribes feelings of sadness and darkness. I can imagine this book will make quite a few people very sad, as most everyone knows someone who suffers from depression, or anxiety, or other forms of mental illness. But I also think it will probably help just as many. I applaud him for his candor and insights into a rarely talked-about issue.
If you love 13 Reasons Why, or anything by John Green, you will love this story. The witty banter between Ray and Jane, Simon and Mary is refreshing and fun, and it's an interesting look into mental illness, how things in life can trigger it, and change a person, and and exploration of how it affects all those around you, and how even though you may think you are ending your suffering, you are ultimately just passing it on to those who loved you.
What I took away most from this is that even if you feel like you are drowning in darkness and can't see past the shadows, you never know what a light you'll be to someone else.
Blood Bound (Youkai Bloodlines #3)
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Two hundred years can strain even the seemingly eternal love of the youkai. When Hideyoshi’s...
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Running Like China: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Madness
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'When I was eleven years old Mum told me, "One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without...