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Depression & memoirbooks

Below are the best books we could find on Depression and memoir.

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Reasons to Stay Alive

Like nearly one in five people, Matt Haig suffers from depression. Reasons to Stay Alive is Matt’s inspiring account of how, minute by minute and day by day, he overcame the disease with the help of reading, writing, and the love of his parents and his girlfriend (and now-wife), Andrea.

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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression.

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Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

A successful magazine editor and prize-winning journalist, Sally Brampton launched Elle magazine in the UK in 1985. But behind the successful, glamorous career was a story that many of her friends and colleagues knew nothing about―her ongoing struggle with severe depression and alcoholism.

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The Valedictorian of Being Dead: My Struggle with Suicidal Depression

For years, Heather B. Armstrong has alluded to her struggle with depression on her website, dooce. It’s scattered throughout her archive, where it weaves its way through posts about pop culture, music, and motherhood.

Heather Armstrong

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A Dialogue on Love

When she begins therapy for depression after breast cancer treatment, the author brings with her an extraordinarily open and critical mind, but also shyness about revealing herself.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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Learning to Be: Finding Your Center After the Bottom Falls Out

“It felt as though every nerve in my body was popping. Imagine large strong hands slowly applying pressure while breaking a family-size package of uncooked, dry spaghetti. I was the spaghetti. Breaking down one piece at a time.

Juanita Campbell Rasmus

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Living the Invisible Disability: Coping with Post Concussion Syndrome Traumatic Brain Injury & Depression

Who hasn't had a rough day? What if that 'rough day' ended up spanning the course of years? And, it was invisible to others.... Hannah's life was going great. She was a stylist with high profile clients in Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, and Miami.

Hannah Andrusky

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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant—she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins.

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Nowhere to Run: Discovering Your True Self in the Midst of an Addiction

Nowhere to Run is a daring memoir illustrating the wonderful highs of Wisconsin Badger football coupled with the dreadful depths of addiction. This classic tale of man’s internal struggle leads Montee Ball down a path where he is met with an undeniable and heartbreaking truth.

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