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Dec 6, 2023 · THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.
Mar 26, 2024 · In The Anxious Generation, I explain the major causes of the international epidemic of mental illness that hit adolescents in the early 2010s, and I offer a path forward for parents, teachers, friends, and relatives who want to help improve the mental health of children and adolescents. Change is possible, if we can act together.
Apr 26, 2021 · The writer, who was raised by a mother who lived with mental illness, shares a list and descriptions of 16 memoirs that explore motherhood and mental health.
- Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- If You Were Here by Jennie Yabroff
- Last Things by Jenny Offill
- The Liars’ Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Before it was adapted into a feature film starring Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon, Anywhere But Herewas the heart-rending novel about the relationship between a mother and daughter. Mostly narrated by the daughter, Ann August, we get glimpses but never a specific diagnosis of her mother, Adele’s, psychoses. Unreliable, simultaneously charming, ...
The Glass Castleis the memoir of MSNBC.com contributor Jeannette Walls, who spent her early years moving around the American Southwest with her family like nomads. Her mother, Rose Mary, couldn’t deal with the responsibility of providing for her family, and referred to herself as an “excitement addict.” When the family’s money ran out, the Walls se...
If You Were Here focuses on Tess, a prep school student whose mother’s erratic behavior has turned her into a social hermit. When she’s left without any friends, she’s forced to find ways to cope with her anxiety in the day, but her nights are haunted with strange visions that fill her with dread. When a horrific tragedy happens one night at her sc...
Eight-year-old Grace Davitt’s mother, Anna, is an ornithologist who speaks five different languages and who teaches her daughter about birds, evolution, and stars in their small lakeside Vermont home. Anna knows much about the natural world, but she prefers myth, superstition, and poetry to scientific fact. This places her in sharp contrast with he...
When The Liars’ Club was first published over twenty years ago, it took the world by storm, bringing about a dramatic revival of the memoir. In The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr details her childhood in an east Texas oil town, dealing with her mother’s mental instability. When Mary was seven, her mother tried to steer the family car off a bridge, with the...
- Pay Up by Reshma Saujani. Who it’s for. Moms, especially working moms, who are feeling burnt out. Reshma Saujani is the founder of Girls Who Code and fierce advocate for women’s rights and gender equality.
- Expecting Better by Emily Oster. Who it’s for. Moms who are feeling anxious and overwhelmed during pregnancy. Emily Oster, a health economist, promotes an evidence-based approach to decision-making throughout pregnancy.
- Fair Play by Eve Rodsky. Who It’s for. Moms who are feeling frustrated, angry or resentful towards their partner due to the unfair division of labor in the home.
- Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy. Who It’s for. Women who want to become the mom and sturdy leader they want to be. I’m a big fan of Dr. Becky and learned about her from my support group for new moms.
In this harrowing family memoir about mental illness and grief, Vince Granata reflects on his brother Tim’s decades-long struggle with unchecked schizophrenia, a struggle that led Tim to murder their mother in their childhood home.
May 7, 2019 · Here are 15 Canadian books that deal with mental health. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
