May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. We’re highlighting books both fiction and nonfiction as well as movies that accurately portray mental illness.
Books
Enchantment by Katherine May
Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
Happy Days by Gabrielle Bernstein
Love Poems for Anxious People by John Kenney
I Really Needed This Today, Hoda Kotb
Good Enough by Kate Bowler
Microjoys, Cydnie Spiegel
You’re Going to be okay by Madeline Popelka
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
Lighter by Yung Pueblo
More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani
Ab(solutely) Normal by Mercedes Acosta
The Bell Jar by Slyvia Plath
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Movies
Silver Linings Playbook
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Trainspotting
Aftersun
Birth
Girl, Interrupted
King of Staten Island
Black Swan
Lars and the Real Girl
A Beautiful Mind
Fight Club
Little Miss Sunshine
Skeleton Twins
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Uncut Gems
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