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Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel Publisher Comments Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of a generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. A memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation is a witty and sharp account of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison Publisher Comments In her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even&... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron Publisher Comments A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Lobotomy by Howard Dully Publisher Comments At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody and messy, rambunctious with his brothers, contrary just to prove a point, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Lobotomy by Howard Dully Publisher Comments Dully became, at age 12, one of the youngest victims of the infamous ice-pick lobotomy. The story of his courageous journey to understand why this nightmare happened is told here.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir by Mark Vonnegut Publisher Comments NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Vonnegut has written a searingly honest account of a particular kind of hell and managing to triumph despite everything—a true thing... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir by Robert A Johnson Publisher Comments One of this century' s most popular psychology scholars, Robert A.Johnson was among the first to present Carl Jung' s rich but complex theories with simple elegance and grace, opening them to an entirely new and hungry audience. His masterful... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Fletcher Wortmann Publisher Comments ***AS FEATURED ON NPRS TALK OF THE NATION*** Imagine the worst thing in the world. Picture it. Construct it, carefully and deliberately in your mind. Be careful not to omit anything. Imagine it happening to you, to the people you love. Imagine the worst... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman Publisher Comments Electroboy is an emotionally frenzied memoir that reveals with kaleidoscopic intensity the terrifying world of manic depression. For years Andy Behrman hid his raging mania behind a larger-than-life personality. He sought a high wherever he could find... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In) by Elizabeth Wurtzel Publisher Comments Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of a generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. A memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation is a witty and sharp account of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.75 Used - Trade Paper
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I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing But True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog by Diana Joseph Publisher Comments Meet the men in Diana Josephs life: The boy, Dianas fourteen-year-old son, who supports the NRA and dreams of living in a house with wall-to-wall carpeting; Dianas father, whos called her on the telephone twice, ever, and who sat her down... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Burn Journals (04 Edition) by Brent Runyon Publisher Comments I don't want to get out of bed. I'm so stupid. I did so many things wrong. I don't know what to do. I'm going to be in so much trouble. What am I going to do? I'm completely screwed. In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Her Last Death: A Memoir by Susanna Sonnenberg Publisher Comments Her Last Death begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg lives with her husband and two young sons. Her aunt is calling to tell Susanna her mother is in a coma after a car accident. She might not live. Any... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig Publisher Comments In the bestselling tradition of "Running with Scissors" and "A Girl Named Zippy," Jennifer Traig tells an unforgettable story of youthful obsession.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir by Mark Vonnegut Publisher Comments More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his remarkable story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling as a pediatrician, and... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Thief of Happiness: The Story of an Extraordinary Psychotherapy by Bonnie Friedman Publisher Comments "Compulsively readable." Francine Prose, O: The Oprah Magazine The Thief of Happiness is the story of a seven year therapy between the author and the mysterious Dr. Sing—a therapy that was part cult of two, part enchantment, and part love story. In... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hurry Down Sunshine: A Father's Story of Love and Madness (Vintage) by Michael Greenberg Publisher Comments A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Hurry Down Sunshine is an extraordinary family story and a memoir of exceptional power. In it, Michael Greenberg recounts in vivid detail the remarkable summer when, at the age of fifteen, his daughter was struck mad. It... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nourishment: Feeding My Starving Soul When My Mind and Body Betrayed Me by Melissa Binstock Publisher Comments Stupid. Fat. Freak. These are the labels Melissa Binstock bestowed upon herself. Diagnosed with six different disorders by the age of eleven, Melissa was drowning in medications, treatments, and isolation. Feeling defined and controlled by Tourette... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison Publisher Comments In her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Life inside: A Memoir by Mindy Lewis Publisher Comments The author recounts how, as a rebellious fifteen-year-old, she was commited to a New York City mental hospital, and how the very traits that caused her hospitalization proved necessary for her recovery and survival on the outside.... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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