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The Flat Earth Society actually does claim to have members all around the globe.

- Bruce Norbeck. Take all the time you need . . .

Once Again . . . Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.*

* from: Tears, Idle Tears, by Alfred Lord Tennyson

BookRiot has published a list of 100 Must-Read books on mental illness.

I've found BookRiot to be a wonderful source for inspiration and information for readers. And the original post on BookRiot contains helpful links for information on and purchase of each book.

  100 Must-Read Books About Mental Illness - BookRiot

1.  72 Hour Hold – Bebe Moore Campbell
2. All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
3. All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness – Sheila Hamilton
4. Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
6. Awakening Kali – T. S. Ghosh
7. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
8. Beloved – Toni Morrison
9. The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide – David Miklowitz
10. Bleeding Violet – Dia Reeves
11. The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating – Kiera Van Gelder
12. By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead – Julie Ann Peters
13. The Color of Hope: People of Color Mental Health Narratives – ed. Vanessa Hazzard
14. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
15. Crazy – Han Nolan y
16. Darkness Visible – William Styron
17. Dragonfish – Vu Tran
18. Every Last Word – Tamara Ireland Stone
19. Everything, Everything – Nicola Yoon
20. The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – David J. Morris
21. Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
22. Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell
23. Find You in the Dark – A. Meredith Walters
24. Flowers From the Storm – Laura Kinsale
25. Franny and Zooey – J. D. Salinger
26. Furiously Happy – Jenny Lawson
27. Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder – Rachel Reiland
28. Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
29. Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life – Melody Moezzi
30. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
31. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
32. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened – Allie Brosh
33. Imagine Me Gone – Adam Haslett
34. Impulse – Ellen Hopkins
35. It’s Kind of a Funny Story – Ned Vizzini
36. The Last Time We Said Goodbye – Cynthia Hand
37. Keep Me Still – Caisey Quinn
38. Let the Tornado Come – Rita Zoey Chin
39. A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
40. Look Straight Ahead – Elaine M. Will
41. Looking for Alaska – John Green
42. Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl – Stacy Pershall
43. Made You Up – Francesca Zappia
44. Madness: A Bipolar Life – Marya Hornbacher
45. The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie – Jennifer Ashley
46. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination – Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
47. The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
48. Manic: A Memoir – Terri Cheney
49. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me – Ellen Forney
50. The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
51. The Memory of Light – Francisco X. Stork
52. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
53. More Happy Than Not – Adam Silvera
54. The Museum of Intangible Things – Wendy Wunder
55. My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind – Scott Stossel
56. My Heart and Other Black Holes – Jasmine Warga
57. The Nest – Kenneth Oppel
58. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression – Andrew Solomon
59. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
60. Not Alone: Reflections on Faith and Depression – Monica A. Coleman
61. A Note of Madness – Tabitha Suzuma
62. Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self – Sara Shandler
63. Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Mental Illness – Rebecca Shannonhouse (ed.)
64. Paperweight – Meg Haston
65. Polarity – Max Bemis
66. Prozac Nation – Elizabeth Wurtzel
67. Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories about Mental Illness – Daryl Cunningham
68. The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness – Lori Schiller
69. Reasons To Stay Alive – Matt Haig
70. The Round House by Louise Erdrich
71. The Salt Eaters – Toni Cade Bambara
72. Shadows in the Sun: Healing from Depression and Finding the Light Within – Gayathri Ramprasad
73. She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb
74. The Silver Linings Playbook– Matthew Quick
75. Skinny – Donna Cooner
76. Sparks Off You – Anita Felicelli
77. Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy – Sonya Sones
78. Stranger – Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith
79. The Surrendered – Chang-rae Lee
80. Swallow Me Whole – Nate Powell
81. A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki
82. Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide – Darryl “DMC” McDaniels
83. Therapy – Kathryn Perez
84. Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
85. Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament – Kay Redfield Jamison
86. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath – Sylvia Plath
87. The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B – Teresa Toten
88. An Unquiet Mind – Kay Redfield Jamison
89. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
90. Your Voice is All I Hear – Leah Scheier
91. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia – Marya Hornbacher
92. When Reason Breaks – Cindy L. Rodriguez
93. When We Collided – Emery Lord
94. White Oleander – Janet Fitch
95. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
96. Willow – Julia Hoban
97. Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey through Depression – Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
98. Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson
99. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
100. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I'm surprised to find that I've only read ten of the books on this list, even though I have been reading books dealing with mental illness for many years. (The ones I've read are in bold type.) This leads me to believe that the list could easily be expanded.

Here are a few suggestions for books that I would add to the list: 

1. His Bright Light - Danielle Steele
2. The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic Depressive Illness - Thomas C. Caramagno
3. Poets on Prozac - Richard M. Berlin, Ed.
   On Being Ill - Virginia Woolf
4. Sunbathing In The Rain - Gwyneth Lewis
5. I Never Promised You A Rose Garden - Joanne Greenberg
6. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - Paul Zindel
7. Feeling Good - David Burns
8. A Brilliant Madness - Patty Duke
9. Moodswing - Ronald R. Fieve, M.D.
10. Manic Depression: Illness or Awakening - Robert E. Kelly

How about you? How many books on this list have you read? And which books would you like to add to the list?

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Kilt Monday!

'Cause let's face it,

Mondays can be so rough, hard, difficult.

We are not alone.

We are legion.

We can overcome.

Also,

World Health Organization:

(Videos about depression)

I have had a black dog hounding my steps for quite a while now.

Just for a while . . .