Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
By: Stacy Pershall
3.93
Format: None pages,
"An utterly unique journey down some of the mind's more mysterious byways . . . ranges from the sho…
Want to ReadIf you liked the mental health plot in Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl by Stacy Pershall , here is a list of 12 books like this:
1. Madness: A Bipolar Life
By: Marya Hornbacher
4.03
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disorder, reflecting major new insights W… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Marya Hornbacher's Madness: A Bipolar Life book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love."-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
"I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life."-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
"My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there."-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
"When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you."-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
2. No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
By: Ron Powers
3.87
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Ron Powers's No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
"The mentally ill people in our lives, as they strive to build healthy, well-supported, and rewarding lives for themselves, can show us all how to reconnect with the most primal of human urges, the ur…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
"...I have sometimes imagined my own sanity as resting on the surface of a membrane, a thin and fragile membrane that can easily be ripped open, plunging me into the abyss of madness, where I join the…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
"The future will be decided in a thousand American urban neighborhoods and suburban conference centers and small-town church basements and library meeting rooms and rural kitchens... The future of men…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
3. Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
By: Rachel Reiland
3.95
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here, reveals what mental illness looks and fe… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Rachel Reiland's Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
" Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience, it is not my intention for my book to be seen as some sort of c…"-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
"I couldn’t trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if any? And which ones were tainted by the mental illness of BPD? I found myself fiercely guarding and limiting my emotiona…"-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
"You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find it, whether i…"-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
"(...) istnieje pewna ciekawa teoria grzechu pierworodnego, o której chciałem ci opowiedzieć (...) – niektórzy teologowie uważają, że w przypadku Adama i Ewy nie chodziło o zjedzenie zakazanego jabłka…"-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
4. Skinny
By: Ibi Kaslik
3.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Do you ever get hungry? Too hungry to eat? Holly's older sister, Giselle, is self-destructing. Hau… read more
Want to Read $ 7.38Similar categories in Ibi Kaslik's Skinny book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
- mental illness
- psychology
- mental health
"Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a p…"-Ibi Kaslik, Skinny
5. Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
By: Jennifer Traig
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
DEVIL IN THE DETAILS announces Jennifer Traig as one of the most hilarious writers to emerge in rec… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jennifer Traig's Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
Similar categories in Terri Cheney's Manic: A Memoir book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
7. Prozac Nation
By: Elizabeth Wurtzel
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A harrowing story of breakdowns, suicide attempts, drug therapy, and an eventual journey back to li… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
8. Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
By: Zack McDermott
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Zack McDermott's Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
9. Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
By: Stacy Pershall
3.93
Format: None pages,
"An utterly unique journey down some of the mind's more mysterious byways . . . ranges from the sho… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
10. The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
By: Lori Schiller , Amanda Bennett
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child -- the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit fa… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Lori Schiller's The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
11. The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating
By: Kiera Van Gelder
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Kiera Van Gelder's first suicide attempt at the age of twelve marked the onset of her struggles wit… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kiera Van Gelder's The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
12. Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
By: Julie Holland
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides an unvarnished look at life in the psych … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Julie Holland's Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R. book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
13. An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
By: Emma Woolf
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
A true story of falling in love and overcoming anorexia. At the age of 32, after ten years of hidin… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Emma Woolf's An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
14. I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
By: Jerold J. Kreisman , Hal Straus
4.50
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
"AM I LOSING MY MIND?" People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frig… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jerold J. Kreisman's I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
15. Elena Vanishing
By: Clare B. Dunkle , Elena Dunkle
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fe… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Clare B. Dunkle's Elena Vanishing book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
16. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
By: Marya Hornbacher
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Thr… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Marya Hornbacher's Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
17. Wintergirls
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
3.55
Format: 320 pages,
In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, L… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Laurie Halse Anderson's Wintergirls book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
18. The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar
By: Terri Cheney
3.94
Format: 264 pages,
Killing yourself at any age is a seriously tricky business. But when I was seven, the odds felt ins… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Terri Cheney's The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
19. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
By: Hadley Freeman
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Hadley Freeman's Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
20. The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
By: Susannah Cahalan
3.64
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness-how do you diagnose it, how do you t… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Susannah Cahalan's The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
21. Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
By: Marsha M. Linehan
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Marsha M. Linehan's Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir book and Stacy Pershall's Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Somehow I lost all ability to regulate not only my emotions but my behavior as well.... It was an alarmingly rapid and complete descent into hell."-Marsha M. Linehan, Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
