Recommended Mental Health Awareness Reading List Addiction
Addiction
• Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception, Abraham Twerski
• Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption, William Cope Moyers
• Chasing the High: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person’s Experience with
Substance Abuse, Kyle Keegan
• Drinking: A Love Story, Caroline Knapp
• Moments of Clarity: Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery,
Christopher Kennedy Lawford
Anxiety
• 100 Questions & Answers About Anxiety, Khleber Atwell
• The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, Edmund Bourne
• The Anxiety Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Deal with Anxiety and
Worry, Lisa Schab
Bipolar Disorder
• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
• The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need
to Know, David J. Miklowitz
• The Bipolar Teen: What You Can Do to Help Your Child and Your Family,
David J. Miklowitz
Depression
• 100 Questions & Answers About Depression, Ava Albrecht
• Monochrome Days: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with
Depression, Cait Irwin
• The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, Andrew Solomon
• On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations About Conquering Depression, Kathy
Cronkite
Mindfulness
• Five Good Minutes - 100 Morning Practices to Help You Stay Calm and Focused
All Day Long, Jeffrey Brantley and Wendy Millstine
• The Mindful Way Through Depression, Mark Williams
• The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh
• Wherever You Go There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Once a Warrior, Always a Warrior: Navigating the Transition from Combat to
Home, Including Combat Stress, PTSD, and TBI, Charles W. Hoge
• The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic
Stress, Mary Beth Williams
• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform
Overwhelming Experiences, Peter A. Levine
