Mental Illness Memoirs

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    • Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
    • By: Thomas S. Szasz MD
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • The 50th anniversary edition of the most influential critique of psychiatry every written, with a new preface on the age of Prozac and Ritalin and the rise of designer drugs, plus two bonus essays....

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    • My Tale of Madness and Recovery
    • By: Barbara K. Lipska, Elaine McArdle - contributor
    • Narrated by: Emma Powell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 972 ratings
    • In 2015, Barbara Lipska - a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness - was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down....

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    • An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
    • By: Meg Kissinger
    • Narrated by: Meg Kissinger
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 237 ratings
    • From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them....

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    • A Story of the Lies About Addiction and the Truth About Recovery
    • By: David Poses
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitchen, measuring the distance from his index finger to his armpit. He needed to be sure he could pull the trigger with a shotgun barrel in his mouth....

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    • A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming Compulsive Checking and Reassurance Seeking
    • By: Martin N. Seif PhD, Sally M. Winston PsyD
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • In this unique guide, you'll find proven-effective tips and tools using CBT to help you tolerate uncertainty, face specific worrying scenarios, and gradually reduce the compulsion to incessantly seek reassurance....

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    • A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope
    • By: Patrick Dylan
    • Narrated by: Raúl E. Esparza
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • When a sudden mental illness struck his wife, Patrick Dylan found himself living with an eerie stranger. Scared and unprepared, he began a desperate battle to protect her from a mysterious disease, shelter their children from her bizarre behavior, and recover the woman he loved....

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    • An Honest Memoir on Mental Illness, Strained Relationships, and Embracing the Struggle
    • By: Clint Edwards
    • Narrated by: Clint Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In this poignant memoir that is both laugh-out-loud funny and sniffle inducing, Clint Edwards explores his lifelong struggle with mental illness in the shadow of his father's battle with the opioid epidemic and his mother's undiagnosed mental illness....

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    • Surviving and Thriving After a Suicide Attempt
    • By: Kevin Hines, Dr. Daniel J. Reidenberg - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kevin Hines
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Kevin Hines's story chronicles the extraordinary will of the author to live mentally well in the face of his mental illness: bipolar disorder with psychotic features. With each mental breakdown, however, the author's desire to live mentally well pulls him from the depths of his condition....

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    • Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness
    • By: Sheila Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Sheila Hamilton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 680 ratings
    • Even as a reporter, Sheila Hamilton missed the signs as her husband David's mental illness unfolded before her. By the time she had pieced together the puzzle, it was too late....

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    • By: Elyn R. Saks
    • Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,481 ratings
    • Professor of psychiatry Elyn R. Saks writes about her struggle with schizophrenia in this unflinching account of her mental illness....

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    • A Memoir of My Life with OCD
    • By: Allison Britz
    • Narrated by: Emily Ellet
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Until sophomore year of high school, 15-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. But after awakening from a vivid nightmare in which she was diagnosed with brain cancer, she was convinced the dream had been a warning....

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    • An Owner's Manual
    • By: Terri Cheney
    • Narrated by: Christine Lakin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Cheney flips mental illness inside out, exposing the visceral story of the struggles, stigma, relationship dilemmas, treatments, and recovery techniques she and others have encountered....

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    • A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder
    • By: Neal Wooten
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • In the tradition of The Glass Castle, Educated, and Heartland, Neal Wooten traces five decades of his dirt-poor, Alabama mountain family as the years and secrets coalesce....

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • By: Jack El-Hai
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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    • Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind
    • By: Cheryl Paradis, Katherine Ramsland - foreword
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • At the heart of countless crimes lie the mysteries of the human mind. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Cheryl Paradis draws back the curtain on the fascinating world of forensic psychology, and revisits the most notorious and puzzling cases she has handled in her multifaceted career....

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    • A Memoir with Nice Memories!
    • By: Tom Scharpling
    • Narrated by: Tom Scharpling
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 535 ratings
    • From the comedian, television writer, and host of The Best Show with Tom Scharpling comes a revealing and powerful memoir exploring a life of struggle and reinvention....

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    • The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
    • By: Heather B. Armstrong
    • Narrated by: Heather B. Armstrong
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 397 ratings
    • From best-selling author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong comes an honest and irreverent memoir about her experience as one of only a few people to participate in an experimental treatment for depression involving 10 rounds of a chemically induced coma approximating brain death....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Liz Scheier
    • Narrated by: Amy Landon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Liz Scheier’s darkly funny and touching memoir—with shades of Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle and Mira Bartók’s The Memory Palace—of growing up in ’90s Manhattan with a brilliant, mendacious single mother....

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