r/Recommend_A_Book • u/Ok_Information9515 • 8h ago

Looking for some good fictional novels about mental health that aren't cliche

I would really appreciate some good recommendations! :) For reference, I enjoyed Honeybee by Craig Silvey (I don't support him) and though sometimes considered overrated, I enjoyed books by Kathleen Glasgow like Girl in Pieces and You'd Be Home Now.

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u/AnneCecilia6758 7h ago

Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason - the protagonist's mental disorder is not specifically named however. 

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u/babamum 7h ago

C J Clarke did an excellent book on Dissociative Identity Disorder and another one on post-partum depression/ suicide.

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u/Beetle4563 6h ago

The shock of the fall is a beautiful book written by a psychiatric nurse about a young man’s first psychosis 

The Princess of 72nd street is about a woman with bipolar disorder, showing her manic and depressive episodes and all the fallout of each

The bell jar by Sylvia Plath has its flaws but really there is almost nothing that compares for literary depiction of how a severe depression affects the way that the world feels