Cultural Savage is a collection of essays about mental illness and Christianity and where the two intersect. Sometimes they crash into each other, and other times they coexist peacefully. When the two collide, it manifests as the Church characterizing mental illness as a spiritual problem. A former bible-study teacher, preacher, and worship leader, Aaron J Smith demonstrates in this book that mental illness isn’t a spiritual deficiency but rather a medical condition that affects the mind. Smith is a writer and stay-at-home father who lives with Bipolar Disorder. He wants to show his two boys that mental illness is not a death sentence, but rather a condition that one manages to lead a healthy life.

Cultural Savage: The intersection of Christianity and mental illness

Religion & Spirituality

Smith, Aaron J

Christian Books & Bibles

Eliezer Tristan Publishing

Janet Coburn draws on the posts from her award-winning blog, Bipolar Me, to illuminate the life of persons who live with bipolar disorder. As a woman living with bipolar 2 disorder, the author has direct experience of the subjects she covers and opens her life to readers. With chapters covering symptoms, treatments, the ups and downs of everyday life, and more, the author provides both valuable information and personal stories of struggles with mental illness. She wants people to know that help, healing, and a rich, rewarding life are possible.This book is recommended for anyone who is interested in or has bipolar disorder, and for people who are family, friends, or loved ones of someone who lives with the condition.

Bipolar Me

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Coburn, Janet

Mental Health

In the time of fad diets, calorie-free sweetener, and chaos, an eating disorder was born. Some days, it looked like the perfect romantic partner, supportive, seductive, mysterious. Somedays, it looked like the key to being a perfect person. Both were wrong; a cover-up for a monster that lures victims into a cold, lonely cave. Untranslatable is the author's account of recovering from her eating disorder, PTSD, and traumatic brain injury. It is not a phoenix rising from the ashes story. For Katherine Elizabeth Walsh, recovery feels more like being sent out into stormy water, in half a boat, that someone lit on fire, and the only oars are her limbs. Recovery isn't always graceful. It is often hard work and stumbling, wanting to give up. Not wanting to try one more time when the thing you are leaving felt so much safer, less ugly. Sometimes being in the mud is where you need to be. Sometimes one more try is exactly the thing that saves you.

Untranslatable

Katherine, Walsh Elizabeth

Psychology & Counseling

Struggling with Serendipity tells the true story of a mom's crisis, a daughter's paralysis, and extraordinary travels that carried them from a small town in Ohio to Seattle, Harvard, Capitol Hill, and around the world.
After an accident, a heartsick mom battles depression and guilt, while a shy but determined teenager fights the harsh physical challenges of quadriplegia. Fourteen-year-old Beth believes everything will be okay. Cindy is certain that nothing will ever be okay again. 
Struggling with Serendipity explores the power of hope while navigating unknown waters of disability. Cindy confronts her altered identity and mental health. Beth sets impossible goals as she tries to swim with legs that don't work and hands that can't cup the water.
Together they find a new normal, with serendipity in the most unlikely of moments. Waves of adventure follow, including Beth’s invitation to join the Harvard Women's Swimming and Diving team—the first with a visible disability. 
Struggling with Serendipity takes us on an incredible journey to the end of an era that leaves Cindy and Beth transformed. Everything really is okay. And if you never give up? Hope wins.

Struggling With Serendipity

Biographies & Memoirs

Cindy Kolbe

Community & Culture

Katie Holcomb is a fourteen-year-old high school freshman trying to navigate her way through life, school - and her parents' divorce. She begins having panic attacks and is diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. After a not-so-positive experience with psychiatry, Katie enters the world of therapy. With the help of Dr. Susan Haines, Katie starts to identify her emotions and makes some therapeutic progress. Surviving tears, panic attacks, and a fight with her best friend, Katie starts coming through to the other side. How will she handle the next crisis that comes her way?

The Katie Chronicles

Laura Becker

Author Katie Houghton makes her debut in this raw, honest memoir about surviving life when living seems no longer an option. Houghton revisits her past and looks beyond to her future as a person living with mental illness, sharing with the reader a message of hope driven by sheer audacity. Through personal writings spanning years, Ms. Houghton invites us into the mind of a troubled young woman navigating through the hostile, barren landscape of depression entirely by feel, driven by her insatiable will to survive no matter the obstacles in her way.
As the author guides the reader through her journey, she offers candid self-examinations of her actions, behaviors, and experiences against the backdrop of a tumultuous childhood and adolescence marked by family upheaval and undiagnosed mental illness. In detailing her subsequent experiences with self-harm and substance abuse, the author offers a compassionate perspective on life lived in spite of adversity before her eventual redemption through mental health treatment. Inspiring and thought-provoking, advocates, treatment professionals, and general readers alike will be moved by Ms. Houghton's perseverance despite the rabidity of her personal demons.

In Bloom, Not Broken

Katie Houghton

Invisible Veils is a collection of poems which gives insight into what it's like to live with anxiety, depression and survive the trauma of being sexually assaulted. At times it means being in constant crisis, struggling to stay alive and the inability to cope with any other issues in life. These poems share the thoughts and feelings of those in the process of healing.

Invisible Veils

Literature & Fiction

Denita Stevens

Poetry

A perfect melding of memoir, self-help, and workbook, Brave Girl Healing gives readers an intimate look into one woman's journey of reclaiming her life from an eating disorder, depression, anxiety, and PTSD, while also sharing practical exercises and suggestions for how others can find their own paths to healing.

Brave Girl Healing

Colleen M. Werner

The Laid-Back Schizophrenic is a collection of essays about living with schizophrenia and trying to be cool about it. Lamont Derrickson brings truth, humor, rawness, and his real-life experience to a book that everyone with schizophrenia simply must read. Derrickson is a gamer, writer, cat lover, and caretaker for his sister, whom he loves dearly. Whether you are newly diagnosed or have been living with a psychotic illness for years, this book is for you.
Bio: 
Lamont Derrickson is quiet by nature, but loud in his writing. It's always the quiet ones who have the most to say. He's passionate about helping others and often puts them before himself. He's been featured on Stigma Fighters and in The Stigma Fighters Anthology.

The Laid-Back Schizophrenic

Lamont Derrickson

Charlotte Kurz always has something to say. A smart, driven student and a kind and caring friend, daughter and sister, she is always cracking a joke and the future seems bright with endless opportunities. What she doesn't say is that shame and guilt are growing so deep inside her that it feels hard to see where the bad feelings end and where Charlotte begins. A turn of events take her on a profoundly painful journey of self-discovery that changes her life completely, and teaches her what it means to be human and imperfect. In this moving memoir, Kurz brings to life her experiences of never feeling good enough and the shame and self-loathing that drove her to develop an eating disorder to try to take control of her feelings and pain. She sheds light on how difficult it is to untangle yourself from the depths of your struggles, and that it is possible to come out on the other side. A Girl Called Shame is a story of the trials and tribulations of living with mental illness, and creating a life worth living. It is a powerful story that life is beautiful even with darkness, and that recovery is possible, no matter how painful. 
 Charlotte Kurz, MPH is a public health professional with an emphasis on community mental health. Through her experiences with anxiety, depression, an eating disorder, and PTSD, she has learned that true recovery and healing are possible, and that speaking openly helps reduce the shame that keeps people sick. She is passionate about breaking the stigma around mental health by starting the conversation about it and helping others find the support and resources that they need. You can find more of her writing, photography, and general life musings at www.livingfreec.com

A Girl Called Shame

Charlotte Kurz

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