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Autobiography or books on emotional abuse, mental illness

I've read Prozac Nation and if it wasn't a requirement for school I never would have finished it. Awful.

I've heard Prozac Diary and An Unquiet Mind are both supposed to be good accounts. Depression and bipolar I believe.

What do you need them for?
 
I would think Don Quixote had mental illness.
How about Captain Ahab in the Moby Dick?
Then there was the big guy, Lennie, in Of Mice and Men.

One flew of the Cuckoo's nest!
 
A semi-autobiographical book thats amazing is Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. If you want insight into mental illness, thats the book for you.
 
the mother of book of this topic has to be A Child Called It by David Pelzer. One of the more interesting ones is Nikki Sixx's recently released book, The Heroin Diaries, which chronicles his years of drug abuse as a member of Motley Crue.
 
Welcome To My Country (A Therapists Memoir of Madness) by Lauren Slater is an excellent book. She works with people with a variety of mental illnesses and has herself experienced mental illness. The over-riding theme is the power of love and connection and her writing has a prose-like quality. She also wrote Prozac Diary mentioned by Jez, I believe.

Although fictional, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kelsey is a wonderful read which I would highly recommend.
 
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