Books like Show me all your scars by Patrick J. Kennedy

xxxv, 338 pages ; 21 cm

Johann Hari investigates the roots of depression and anxiety, arguing that modern lifestyles—not chemical imbalances—are the primary culprits, and presents nine real causes along with seven alternative solutions.

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

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 New York City teen’s struggle with depression is told with irreverent humor, charting his day‑to‑day life and his time in a psychiatric hospital.

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.

Mariel Hemingway’s memoir chronicles her journey out of the Hemingways' shadow—navigating inherited mental illness, addiction, and suicide to find her own voice and resilience.

Robert Whitaker’s investigative history of mental‑health treatment traces how practices from the 18th century to today have often worsened, rather than improved, the lives of severe mental‑illness patients.

Pete Earley, a former Washington Post reporter, recounts his family's harrowing experience with the mental health system as his son‑in‑law enters a manic episode and is convicted, exposing the gap between care and punishment for the mentally ill.