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Mental Health Awareness - Self Help

May is Mental Health Awareness month. Try these titles that give insight into a particular condition. For more information on Mental Health Awareness Month, contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness: http://www.nami.org/

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  • Healthy Happy ADHD

    Transform How You Move, Eat, and Feel, and Create Your Own Path to Well-being

    Dee, Lisa,
    "Featuring creative wellness hacks and empowering practices presented in easy-to-digest chapters with an ADHD-friendly design, Healthy Happy ADHD offers a life-changing blueprint for becoming your most vibrant self, both inside and out."
    Book, 2025New York : Rodale, [2025] — 616.8589 DEE
  • Where I Belong

    Healing Trauma and Embracing Asian American Identity

    Lee, Soo Jin (Therapist),
    "An essential resource that addresses the unique experiences of trauma, healing, and mental health in Asian and Asian American communities."
    Book, 2024New York : TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024] — PSYCH CONDITN
  • But What Will People Say?

    Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

    Kohli, Sahaj Kaur,
    "A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book from therapist, writer, and founder of @browngirltherapy that rethinks traditional therapy and self-care models, creating much-needed space for those left out of the narrative."
    Book, 2024[New York] : Penguin Life, [2024] — PSYCH CONDITN
  • Break the Cycle

    a Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

    Buqué, Mariel,
    "The definitive, paradigm-shifting guide to healing intergenerational trauma-weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the therapy room-from Dr. Mariel Buqué, PhD, a Columbia University-trained trauma-informed…
    Book, 2024New York : Dutton, [2024] — SELFHELP
  • All in Her Head

    How Gender Bias Harms Women's Mental Health

    Pratt, Misty,
    "This provocative, deeply personal book explores how women experience mental health care differently than men--and lays out how the system must change for women to flourish."
    Book, 2024Vancouver ; Berkeley ; London : Greystone Books, [2024] — 616.89 PRATT
  • Permission to Come Home

    Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans

    Wang, Jenny T.,
    "The first of its kind, Permission to Come Home is a crucial resource for the rapidly growing community of Asian Americans, immigrants, and other minorities and marginalized people to practice mental and emotional self-care. This book helps readers…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Balance, 2022. — PSYCH CONDITN
  • The Pain We Carry

    Healing From Complex PTSD for People of Color

    Gutiérrez, Natalie Y.,
    "This groundbreaking work illuminates the phenomena of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) as it is uniquely experienced by people of color, and provides a much-needed path to reclaiming health and wholeness despite the heavy burden of…
    Book, 2022Oakland, CA : New Harbinger Publications, Inc., [2022] — 616.8521 GUT
  • Move the Body, Heal the Mind

    Overcome Anxiety, Depression, and Dementia and Improve Focus, Creativity, and Sleep

    Heisz, Jennifer J.,
    A noted neuroscientist reveals groundbreaking research on how fitness and exercise can combat mental health conditions such as anxiety, dementia, ADHD, and depression, and offers a plan for improving focus, creativity, and sleep.
    Book, 2022Boston : Mariner Books, [2022] — 612.044 HEISZ
  • The Anxiety Antidote

    How Awareness and Action Can Lead to Self-control and Inner Peace

    Bedi, Kamran,
    "The Anxiety Antidote makes understanding and dealing with anxiety easy and practical. The book offers tools and techniques that the reader can apply quickly on a daily basis, such as exercises on self-reflection, breath work, mindfulness and…
    Book, 2022London : Watkins, 2022. — 616.8522 B39a
  • From Grief to Healing

    a Holistic Guide to Rebuilding Mind, Body & Spirit After Loss

    Mackenzie, Amanda, 1957-
    "Using holistic arts to get through grief. This is a practical book on moving from grief to recovery that provides support to the bereaved for healing of mind, body and spirit."
    Book, 2022Woodbury, Minnesota : Llewellyn Publications, 2022. — SPIRIT NEW AGE
  • Real Self-care

    a Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)

    Lakshmin, Pooja,
    "From women's mental health specialist and New York Times contributor Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes a long-overdue reckoning with the contradictions of the wellness industry and a paradigm-shifting program for practicing real self-care that will…
    Book, 2023[New York, N.Y.] : Penguin Life, [2023] — 613 LAK
  • Black People Breathe

    a Mindfulness Guide to Racial Healing

    Clarke, Zee,
    This practical guide features thirty-three mindfulness exercises centered on healing for the Black community, each focusing on the systemic challenges that people of color face and designed to deal with the emotions these experiences create.
    Book, 2023California : Ten Speed Press, [2023] — 155.8496 CLARKE
  • Brain Energy

    a Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

    Palmer, Christopher M. (Psychiatrist),
    "Brain Energy explains this new understanding of mental illness in detail, from symptoms and risk factors to what is happening in brain cells."
    Book, 2022Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2022] — PSYCH CONDITN
  • Beyond Madness

    the Pain and Possibilities of Serious Mental Illness

    Pruchno, Rachel,
    "This book provides concrete, evidence-based strategies for helping people with serious mental illness. It explains how to find competent health care providers, identify treatment regimens that can quell the symptoms of mental illness, overcome…
    Book, 2022Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — PSYCH CONDITN
  • Burnout

    the Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

    Nagoski, Emily,
    Book, 2020New York : Ballantine Books, 2020. — SELFHELP
  • Bittersweet

    How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

    Cain, Susan,
    "With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research,…
    Book, 2022New York : Crown, [2022] — 155.2 CAIN
  • Different After You

    Rediscovering Yourself and Healing After Grief and Trauma

    Hernandez, Michele Neff,
    "Empowers people who have experienced a life-altering trauma to grieve what they've lost, identify what they've gained, and embrace the person they've become through the process."
    Book, 2022Novato, California : New World Library, [2022] — LIFE GRIEF
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    a Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

    Gottlieb, Lori,
    Book, 2019Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. — 616.8914 GOTTLIEB
  • We've Been Too Patient

    Voices From Radical Mental Health : Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model

    Book, 2019Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2019] — 362.2097 G823w
  • Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess

    5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking

    Leaf, Caroline, 1963-
    Book, 2021Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2021] — PSYCH CONDITN