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White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club)
Janet Fitch
Back Bay Books, 2000
So beautifully written...
+ Fantastic!
+ One of the best books I've ever read!
+ Chilling
+ No words to describe this book!
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Crosses
Shelley Stoehr
Backinprint.Com, 2003
A pain well shared
+ AMAZING
+ Great book
+ i cried really hard, but that's probably cos i'm bipolar
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Cut
Patricia Mccormick
Push, 2002
Cuts to the bone.
+ Insightful
Cut by Patricia McCormick is a quick and brilliant book that deals with a teenage girl named Callie who cuts herself whenever she feels depressed or overwhelmed. I read this book about six years ago and I still think about this harrowing piece of teen literature since. The main character refuses to ...
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Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation
Steven Levenkron
W. W. Norton, 1998
Cutting
+ Self Injury
+ A Fine Overview.
+ A good insight on cutting
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Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, & Survival
Victoria Leatham
New Harbinger Publications, 2006
Feeling Alone?
+ The best book for those who suffer from this affliction...
+ among the best mental health memoirs
+ Blood Letting
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The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
Dave Pelzer
HCI, 1997
The Lost Boy
+ This is a great follow up!
+ The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's search for the love of a family
+ Inspiring.
+ opened my eyes
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Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light: A Memoir of Cutting, Healing, and Hope
Vanessa Vega
AMACOM, 2007
Inspiring
+ VERY TRUE
+ deep and chocking
Vanessa Vega is an amazing and strong woman. The way that she shares her story is inspiring in so many ways. I have read many memoirs about self-injury, and none provided me with as much as hope as "Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light."
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The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
Grand Central Publishing, 1994
Unusual narrators, exaggerated concept, and intelligent storytelling make this readable & thought-provoking. Highly recommended
+ Jorie's Reads on The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
+ Time in a Bottle
+ this is a true story
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Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
Peter Smith Pub Inc, 2006
This has meaning. Pain.
+ Speak
+ Great Book!!
My mom found this book on a plane. Someone left it there perhaps accidently as they were gathering up their suitcases, or as I prefer to believe, because they finished reading it and wanted others to read about it. That's why I love books so much they are meant to be read, shared, enjoyed. My mom ...
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Go Ask Alice
Anonymous
Simon Pulse, 2005
Go Ask Alice
+ we get it already...
+ Thumbs up.
I loved this book. The emotion that the protagonist conveys throughout the book is clearly relatable from generation to generation. I recommend this book for every teenager out there.
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Poetry in Prose
+ This isn't a book about depression
+ a masterpiece
The Bell Jar tells the captivating story of Esther Greenwood, a gifted young woman who has just completed her arduous internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The novel, written entirely in first person, chronicles her mental breakdown and subsequent ...
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Skin Game: A Memoir
Caroline Kettlewell
St. Martin's Griffin, 2000
Well Written and Honest, but Too Wordy
+ Masterpiece
+ Slim Reflections on Ending Worth the Price of the Book
Who knew that a book could be too wordy?
Caroline Kettlewell does an amazing job of telling her story, but it seems that she tries too hard to make it sound perfect, which makes it boring. I wouldn't recommend this to young readers.
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Self-Injury: When Pain Feels Good (Resources for Changing Lives) (Resources for Changing Lives) (Resources ...
Edward T. Welch
P & R Press, 2004
helpful overview
+ Quick Understanding of SI for Christians
I found this book to be a very helpful overview of the topic. Obviously, any major problem that needs counseling is also going to need a thorough amount of research also, and this provides a very basic manual to the causes and some helps for self-injurers.
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Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen
Vintage, 1994
Personal, but (seemingly) honest memoir
+ Chase Von, The Last Panther's Review
Susanna Kaysen shares an episodic account of her two-year stay in a mental institution during her late teens. She recounts the ailments and behavior which led her to the hospital, while also questioning her diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder, as well as the manner in which mental ...
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Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager
Beatrice Sparks
HarperTeen, 2002
Give me a break
This book only got 2 stars because of the fact I actually finished it, I don't usually finish books.
This book is so annoying. No one with a real eating disorder is that happy about EVERYTHING, she happy about her parents, and some guy, and school, gymnastics and life...if you're so happy then ...
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