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Books Anchor Me in an Increasingly Chaotic World

One reader shares how books provide them comfort in the chaos, and offer a form of escapism that reenergizes them.

9 Emotionally Devastating Mental Illness Graphic Memoirs

Here are the best mental illness graphic memoirs, covering depression, anxiety, and borderline personality disorder, among others.

Living With Bipolar Disorder: 4 YA Books That Got Me Through My Mania

These books about characters facing a host of challenges and coming through helped this reader with bipolar disorder get through manic times.

Read Harder: A Book That Demystifies a Common Mental Illness

In this Read Harder Challenge post, we're recommending books for the task asking you to read a book that demystifies a common mental illness.

9 Books to Help You Understand Your Anxiety

Whether you have anxiety or know someone who does, we've got some workbooks and books about anxiety offering tools to help.

Comics for People With Anxiety

Mental illness can be very isolating, but these comics for people with anxiety will make you feel understood with some laughs along the way.

7 YA Books About Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia affects over 20 million people around the world; these YA books about schizophrenia can help those diagnosed feel seen.

Why the Library is Still the Only Place I Feel Safe, Even During a Pandemic

How one reader with OCD struggled with the loss of library access during the pandemic, but ultimately benefited from some time away.

6 Audiobooks for Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we've rounded up six books by women that explore ideas and themes around mental illness.

Doing No Harm: A Look at Writing Suicide and Self-Harm in Fiction

A look at guidelines to representing suicide and self-harm in fiction, and how and why fiction writers might be able to use these guidelines in their work.