Books like Schizo by Nic Sheff

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.

James Frey's raw, first‑person memoir of addiction and recovery, offering an unflinching look at his struggle with opioids and the brutal path to sobriety.

xxxv, 338 pages ; 21 cm

In the Gulf‑swamp town of Leechfield, Texas, a group of oil workers called the Liars’ Club spin tall tales, while a young woman confronts her family’s hidden past, unmasking lies that threaten her sanity.

A sixteen-year-old girl, Alyssa Gardner, fears she is mentally ill and discovers a fantastical Wonderland, where fixing mistakes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland can save her family from a curse.

High school sophomore Erin Misrahe battles an alter ego, Shevaun, who turns out to be a vampire wreaking havoc. With the help of a protective friend and the witch Adjila, Erin must sever the dangerous link before it destroys her life.

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.

After returning home from boarding school, Emma discovers her mother is in the midst of a schizophrenic break, forcing her to confront the foundations of her own identity while seeking support from her boyfriend Daniel—though a brooding visitor at the hospital may offer deeper understanding.

In northern Vermont, high‑school seniors Frenchy and Stewart audition for their school musical, "Man of La Mancha." Stewart lands the lead, spiraling into obsessive performance, while Frenchy grapples with personal demons to keep his friend realistic.

A sixteen‑year‑old boy with schizophrenia finds himself caught in a teenage robbery that turns into a hostage situation.

A little girl learns coping skills with her grandmother’s help, balancing her mother’s mental illness as a child of color in the African American community.

Seventeen‑year‑old Calvin, struggling with schizophrenia, believes that convincing Bill Watterson to create one more Calvin & Hobbes strip will cure him.