Books tagged: mental illness

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Hospital Story    by Earnest Long
Price: Free! 21970 words. Published on May 17, 2012. .

Hospital story is about the tragedy of wasting time and wasting your life doing nothing much. The book is set in a mental hospital where nothing much happens and the doctors and nurses are not bothered about discharging the patients. Can someone find a second wind? This book is about hope. Hope bureaucracy is not always the monster it sometimes is. Change really is possible.
Life in Mental Chains (Memoir)    by Ruth J. Hartman
Price: $2.99 USD. 32260 words. Published by Turquoise Morning Press  on May 20, 2012. .

From darkness to the light -- my terrifying journey with OCD. Once an easygoing person and confident dental hygienist, what happens one February changes Ruth J. Hartman’s life forever. OCD locks its tentacles around her mind, taking her on a terrifying journey she never imagined possible. Take Ruth’s journey with her, as she travels through the darkness to the light.
Bipolar Journals    by Bipolar Girl
Price: $0.99 USD. 7240 words. Published on May 31, 2012. .

Bipolar Journals is a series of journal entries from a girl with Bipolar Disorder II. The entries explain what it is like to face stigmas of mental illness and derogatory images that the media paint in the minds of her peers. It describes how Bipolar Disorder disrupts her emotions and her functionality. Bipolar Journals is published anonymously by a girl who might just be in your community.
Change Of Season    by A.C. Dillon
Price: $1.99 USD. 148640 words. Published on June 2, 2012. .

Autumn Brody has enrolled at a prestigious boarding school in a desperate bid for the survival, but soon finds that there are more reasons to fear the night than she ever dared imagine. As past bleeds into present, Autumn uncovers truths long buried within room 308 that someone will kill to keep silent. Someone who stalks Autumn’s every move, patiently waiting to strike…
My Life In Darkness    by Harrison Drake
Price: $1.49 USD. 22220 words. Published on June 3, 2012. .

Each time a total eclipse causes the sun to disappear behind the moon, the darkness gives strength to one man. His tragic life and secret love are told in a series of letters written as he travels the world, searching out the eclipses wherever and whenever they occur.
A Life Lived Ridiculously    by Dr Annabelle R Charbit
Price: $4.49 USD. 72740 words. Published on June 11, 2012. .

When a girl with obsessive compulsive disorder falls in love with a sociopath, she must fight for her sanity and her life.
Mercy (A Southern Gothic Short Story)    by Rachelle Taylor
Price: $0.99 USD. 5860 words. Published on June 16, 2012. .

In this Southern Gothic short, a sheltered, impoverished teenager seeks to impress a neighbor boy, with destructive results. This story explores poverty, neglect, mental illness, and misogyny in rural Appalachia. This story originally appeared in Printer's Devil Review.
A Father's Angels    by John Waldron
Price: $4.99 USD. 71580 words. Published on June 22, 2012. .

John Waldron had not intended to hire an undocumented worker, or several for that matter, but he needed help with caring for his two young sons. In A Father's Angels, his affecting and redeeming tribute to four Hispanic women and their families, these illegal angels helped redirect the lives of a new father and his children and provided invaluable life lessons on the true meaning of family.
The Man Who Got Lost    by Nick Wilgus
Price: $1.99 USD. 58900 words. Published on July 2, 2012. .

For Leo Collins, a man with mental illness, life is never what it seems - and never what he wants it to be.
The Beauty in Ugly    by Stephanie Campbell
Price: Free! 3540 words. Published on July 3, 2012. .

When London goes to a party, he comes to realize that it isn't as it seems. All of his friends are suddenly out to get him. He doesn't understand it. That is when he meets Janette, a girl that is more beautiful than anyone he has ever seen before. He knows at once that she is the one that is destined to save him—but can she?