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National Mental Health Awareness Month

May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Check out some of these books for further insight into this core part of our general wellness.

Princeton Public Library

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  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    a Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

    Gottlieb, Lori,
    With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and…
    Book, 2019Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. — Health & Wellness 616.891 Got
  • Together

    the Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

    Murthy, Vivek Hallegere, 1977-
    Former Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek Murthy argues that loneliness is the underpinning to the current crisis in mental wellness and is responsible for the upsurge in suicide, the opioid epidemic, the overuse of psych meds, the…
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins, [2020] — Health & Wellness 158.2 Mur
  • How Not to Kill Yourself

    a Portrait of the Suicidal Mind

    Martin, Clancy, 1967-
    The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was in his basement with a dog leash. It was one of over ten attempts throughout the course of his life. But he didn't die, and like many who consider taking their own lives, he hid the attempt from…
    Book, 2023New York : Pantheon Books, [2023] — Health & Wellness 362.28 Mar
  • The Anxious Generation

    How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing An Epidemic of Mental Illness

    Haidt, Jonathan,
    Book, 2024New York : Penguin Press, 2024. — Health & Wellness 649.1 Hai
  • Move the Body, Heal the Mind

    Overcome Anxiety, Depression, and Dementia and Improve Focus, Creativity, and Sleep

    Heisz, Jennifer J.,
    A noted neuroscientist reveals groundbreaking research on how fitness and exercise can combat mental health conditions such as anxiety, dementia, ADHD, and depression, and offers a plan for improving focus, creativity, and sleep.
    Book, 2022Boston : Mariner Books/Harvest, [2022] — Health & Wellness 612.044 Hei
  • The Crucial Years

    the Essential Guide to Mental Health and Modern Puberty in Middle Childhood (ages 6-12)

    Ziegler, Sheryl,
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow, 2025. — Health & Wellness 649.124 Zie
  • Good Girls

    a Story and Study of Anorexia

    Freeman, Hadley,
    "In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote in her 'I just spent three years of my life in mental hospitals. So why am I crazier than I was before????' From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa.…
    Book, 2023New York : Simon & Schuster, [2023] — Health & Wellness 616.852 Fre
  • Healing

    Our Path From Mental Illness to Mental Health

    Insel, Thomas R., 1951-
    As director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel was giving a presentation when the father of a boy with schizophrenia yelled from the back of the room, "Our house is on fire and you're telling me about the chemistry of the…
    Book, 2022New York : Penguin Press, 2022. — Health & Wellness 616.89 Ins
  • Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022. — Health & Wellness 158.1 Smi
  • Attention Hijacked

    Using Mindfulness to Reclaim Your Brain From Tech

    Marcus, Erica B.,
    Attention Hijacked offers a roadmap for those deciding how they want to deal with technology, exploring the ways technology affects the individual, dispelling common misinformation, and using this knowledge to make personalized decisions. Page Plus…
    Book, 2022Minneapolis : Zest Books, [2022] — YA 153.733 Mar
  • Don't Worry

    48 Lessons on Relieving Anxiety From a Zen Buddhist Monk

    Masuno, Shunmyō,
    By following this book's 48 simple lessons-and taking to heart the nearly 30 zengo, or Zen sayings, quoted throughout-you'll enjoy a calmer, more relaxed, more positive version of yourself.
    Book, 2022New York : Penguin Life, [2022] — Philosophy & Religion 294.344 Mas
  • Permission to Come Home

    Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans

    Wang, Jenny T.,
    Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural frameworks that enabled their assimilation into American culture. As Asian Americans investigate the personal and…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Balance, 2022. — Health & Wellness 616.89 Wan
  • The Body Keeps the Score

    Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

    Van der Kolk, Bessel A., 1943-
    Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring—specifically…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2014New York : Viking, [2014]
  • How to Change Your Mind

    What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

    Pollan, Michael,
    When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness, as well as offer relief…
    Book, 2018New York : Penguin Press, 2018. — Health & Wellness 615.788 Pol
  • Overthinking About You

    Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD, And/or Depression

    Raskin, Allison,
    Dating is hard—but when you live with anxiety, OCD, and/or depression, dating can feel like a minefield. At last, a book that focuses solely on mental health and dating—an intersection that demands attention, given that one in five Americans will…
    Book, 2022New York : Workman Publishing, 2022. — Health & Wellness 306.7 Ras
  • The Highly Sensitive Person

    How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

    Aron, Elaine,
    Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you "too shy" or "too sensitive" according to others? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If your answers are yes, you may…
    eBook, New York : Carol Pub. Group
  • A vibrant, compelling memoir from a remarkable young woman that bravely reveals the real-life havoc wrought by depression and the urgent search for solutions. Illuminating, completely engaging...
    Book, 2020New York : The Experiment, 2020. — Health & Wellness 616.8527 Pap
  • My Grandmother's Hands

    Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

    Menakem, Resmaa,
    The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America…
    Book, 2017Las Vegas, NV : Central Recovery Press, [2017] — History 305.896 Men
  • Losing Our Minds

    the Challenge of Defining Mental Illness

    Foulkes, Lucy,
    Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of how to define it has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with the inherent stresses and challenges of human experience. A…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, ©2021, 2022. — Health & Wellness 616.89 Fou