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Mark Lukach felt helpless as his wife had a psychotic break and spent twenty-some days in the psych ward. She gets to go home, but the depression lingers. When he asks what she wants to do one day, she says she wants to go to the Golden Gate Bridge and jump. My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is about a relationship working through crisis. But it’s also a stunning mental health memoir told through the eyes of the caregiver, focusing on the despair of being on the sidelines.
I also wrote about how meaningful this book is to me in 2017. It was a few months into dating my soon-to-be husband and he came with me to a reading. With him sitting beside me, I finally realized how hurtful it is for him when my depression puts words in my mouth.
✨ From Mental Health Memoirs From the Sidelines at Crooked Reads.
I also wrote about how meaningful this book is to me in 2017. It was a few months into dating my soon-to-be husband and he came with me to a reading. With him sitting beside me, I finally realized how hurtful it is for him when my depression puts words in my mouth.
✨ From Mental Health Memoirs From the Sidelines at Crooked Reads.
Oh look, another absolutely devastating family memoir.
The only thing 6-year-old Kait Leddy wanted in life was a sister. When Kyleigh finally arrived, the two were inseparable—until Kait hit adolescence, suffered head injuries, and started to change in scary ways. She was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and lived a volatile life in and out of healthcare facilities while Kyleigh watched on with a mix of fear and annoyance. The day after Kait disappeared, Kyleigh went to school, expecting it to be another incident they would move past. But that didn’t happen. Kait was last seen crossing a bridge, but never on the other side. A body was never found.
The Perfect Other is a beautiful book about grief and loving someone who is mentally ill. Leddy’s work as a mental health advocate, especially with psychotic disorders, makes this an even more powerful book.
✨ From Mental Health Memoirs From the Sidelines at Crooked Reads.
“You wish there was an adequate term for what you are—like orphan or widower—a term that says ‘I once meant something to somebody.’”
The only thing 6-year-old Kait Leddy wanted in life was a sister. When Kyleigh finally arrived, the two were inseparable—until Kait hit adolescence, suffered head injuries, and started to change in scary ways. She was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and lived a volatile life in and out of healthcare facilities while Kyleigh watched on with a mix of fear and annoyance. The day after Kait disappeared, Kyleigh went to school, expecting it to be another incident they would move past. But that didn’t happen. Kait was last seen crossing a bridge, but never on the other side. A body was never found.
The Perfect Other is a beautiful book about grief and loving someone who is mentally ill. Leddy’s work as a mental health advocate, especially with psychotic disorders, makes this an even more powerful book.
✨ From Mental Health Memoirs From the Sidelines at Crooked Reads.
The line I’m going to (try to) focus on:
“Pay attention to how you feel when you’re on social media, and when you notice that you’re feeling bad, log off.”
“Pay attention to how you feel when you’re on social media, and when you notice that you’re feeling bad, log off.”
This collection of memories and conversations intertwined with beautiful essays about schizophrenia is just perfection. Marin Sardy’s mother lived in a world of delusions spurred by her disease, but never wanted treatment for it. Then her brother experienced the same things. The Edge of Every Day will give you whiplash as it bounces between childhood memory and adult thought, and it’ll leave you feeling a little bit fractured at the end.
✨ From Mental Health Memoirs From the Sidelines at Crooked Reads.
✨ From Mental Health Memoirs From the Sidelines at Crooked Reads.
Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru
Catherine Baab-Muguira, Catherine Baab-Muguira
Biography by way of humorous anti-self-help is such a neat concept.
Last Christmas, Holly got dumped. At a bar. While she was dressed as a slutty Mrs. Claus. Luckily, the owner of the bar—Nick Saint, a silver fox—has eyes for her. And so their relationship blooms. Claimed by Cupid is book two in this series where we get to check in on the couple for each holiday; this time it’s a spicy Valentine’s date with public toy play. These two are a delight to read.