Books like More, now, again by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Eighteen‑year‑old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital in 1967, where she documents life in the psychiatric ward, exploring mental illness, recovery, and the cultural landscape of the late 1960s.

A compelling biography of Susannah Cahalan's battle with encephalitis and the challenges of diagnosis and recovery.

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William Styron’s memoir recounts his 1985 struggle with severe depression, hospitalization, and recovery, offering an honest portrait of living with mental illness.

A brave, self-exploring memoir of an autistic woman's journey towards understanding and embracing her unique condition.

A journalistic examination of America’s opioid crisis from the 1996 launch of OxyContin to the devastating impact on Central Appalachia and the national epidemic, focusing on drug abuse, medical overuse, and industry influence.

Howard Dully recounts the chilling aftermath of a childhood lobotomy and his decades‑long struggle to reclaim a life stolen by medical brutality, family complicity, and society’s neglect.

Andrew Solomon’s acclaimed nonfiction journey into depression blends personal narrative, case studies, and scientific inquiry to illuminate the illness’s complexities, treatments, and cultural impact worldwide.

A raw, lyrical memoir tracing the life of T. Kira Madden, a queer biracial teenager who navigates privilege, drug‑addicted parents, and racial divides in Boca Raton while finding refuge among “fatherless girls,” confronting trauma and reclaiming identity.

Amanda Stern’s memoir traces a childhood marked by parental divorce, Greenwich Village bohemia, and an undiagnosed panic disorder as she navigates 1970‑80s New York City, love, and anxiety.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

Daphne Merkin's memoir charts a lifelong battle with clinical depression, from a privileged childhood to postpartum despair, and her evolving dialogue with therapists in a candid, personal essay format.

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Kathryn Harrison’s memoir follows a mother-daughter bond that triggers a profound struggle with depression, anxiety, and anorexia, leading ultimately to understanding, acceptance, and healing.

In *In My Blood* follows author John Sedgwick as he confronts a life‑threatening depression while tracing a family that spans colonial America, revealing how inherited illness and privilege shape the Sedgwick lineage.

This book is divided along the five stages of meth recovery with additional chapters looking at "Crystal Meth Anonymous Meetings - What It's All About" and "What About Relapse?" Upbeat and positive, Quitting Crystal Meth: What to Expect & What to Do approaches the reader with respect and the disease of addiction with dignity.