reading about trich & mental health

by Ashley Holstrom

Five books about trichotillomania:

• Marni: My True Story of Stress, Hair-Pulling, and Other Obsessions by Marni Bates

• Life Is Trichy: Memoir of a Mental Health Therapist with a Mental Health Disorder by Lindsey M. Muller

• Doesn’t It Hurt?: Confessions of Compulsive Hair Pullers by Sandy Rosenblatt (editor)

• Help for Hair Pullers: Understanding and Coping with Trichotillomania by Nancy J. Keuthen, Dan J. Stein, and Gary A. Christenson

• Still Waiting: Hope for When God Doesn’t Give You What You Want by Ann Swindell

Five mental health memoirs:

• Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

• Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey through Depression by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

• Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir by Ellen Forney

• Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life by Melody Moezzi

• Shadows in the Sun: Healing from Depression and Finding the Light Within by Gayathri Ramprasad