Reviews and Blog Posts: mental illness

If you are interested in a challenging literary read and you secretly wish for the second coming of James Joyce, then Umbrella will meet all your Modernist resurrection fantasies. Will Self uses boggling and dense language to describe the mistaken institutionalization of suffragette Audrey De'ath after she acquires sleeping sickness....

When she was in her late 20s, cartoonist Ellen Forney  was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. While she was open to the idea of treatment, she also worried that the drugs--and having her disorder more under control--would impede her creativity, her very livelihood. In this graphic memoir, she explores her treatment...

Looking at all that is wrong in the world, the seemingly perfect Veronika decides she can no longer go on living. Her suicide attempt fails and she wakes up in a mental hospital where she is told the attempt has weakened her heart and she only has days to live....