In this day and age, the term “mental health” or “mental health awareness” are frequently mentioned in differently platforms, such as the social media, schools, society, and social media. What is the definition of mental health and why do many organizations and influential people promote it? In the broadest sense, it is the part of a person’s holistic health that entails his emotional, psychological, and social fitness. It often helps identify the ways people manage stressful events, connect to others, and create decisions.
Hence, if you are looking for the best books that tackle and promote mental health, then here are the titles that you should look out for.
Bipolar Chronicles: From Crazed to Content by Diana Grippo
The first edition of the book Bipolar Chronicles: From Crazed to Content by Diana Grippo was recently published last June 20, 2021 by BookBaby. It narrates the personal accounts of the author as she battled hallucinations, depression, substance abuse, and delusions. Grippo begins to heal only to experience a relapse. The event went over and over for several years. Regardless of her unfortunate situation, she healed through a spiritual method that entails The Twelve Steps, music therapy, and Dialect Behavior Therapy. So from a street dweller, she became an educator, founder and executive director, and basically works with Apple.
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.d. and Oprah Winfrey
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.d. and Oprah Winfrey is a bestselling book that gives strong scientific and emotional knowledge to the patterns of actions that many are having a hard time to comprehend. Winfrey begins to share her personal experiences and gets a better grasp on the fragility that results after battling traumas and uncertainties in her youth. Moreover, both of the authors also concentrate on comprehending individuals, actions, and identities. It is a slow but deep change in your approach to trauma and enables you to be enlightened of your past to have a better future — which means opening the way to resilience and mending in a better method.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
Bessel Van Der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma was reprinted by Penguin Books last 2015. Thus, this bestselling books unravels the great ability of our connections to give us pain and help us mend. The renowned author also utilizes the recent scientific developments to showcase the ways trauma remolds an individual’s mind and body. As a result, it compromises people’s abilities for pleasure, interaction, self-control, and more. He also digs into a variety of treatments that provide fresher ways to betterment through activating the mind’s innate neuroplasticity.
Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour
Published in 2020 by Dutton Books for Young Readers, Watch Over Me is a remarkable book written by Printz award-winning author Nina LaCour. It follows the tale of a girl named Mia who enjoys solitude. Perhaps it is the reason why she agreed to the chance of residing in a remote location together with the flowers, fogs, and other natural features. However, she has no idea about the ghosts. The farm that she lives in is her safe haven but little did she know that it is haunted by the recent traumas of its young dwellers have come to run away fun. So, Mila’s memories begin to emerge to the place. What would she do?
We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health by L.D. Green, Kelechi Ubozoh, and Robert Whitaker
We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health is a collection of tales and essays from the front lines of the revolutionary health movement. It was edited by L.D. Green and Kelechi Ubozoh, and presents a foreword by Robert Whitaker. The book tackles the different aspects that result to extreme modified conditions and suicidal thoughts. Moreover, the said factors include but not limited to forced hospitalizations, overmedication, and traumas. This book also serves or gives voices to those who have gone through psychiatric mistreatments.
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