My deepest thanks to everyone at @people
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I’ll be spending the rest of the day completely stunned if anyone’s wondering
All this amazing year-end praise offers me a dynamite chance to spotlight the books that inspired me as I wrote about mental health (for all your Xmas shopping needs), starting with this, @esmewang's eloquent and deeply moving collection https://bookshop.org/books/the-collected-schizophrenias-essays/9781555978273 1/
And here's @scahalan's The Great Pretender, a fantastic, clearly reasoned exploration of the nuances of diagnosis, and the power of groupthink and confirmation bias, all wrapped up in a potboiler https://bookshop.org/books/the-great-pretender-the-undercover-mission-that-changed-our-understanding-of-madness/9781538715277 2/
For a first-person exploration of a lifetime of challenges, both inspiring and enlightening and educational, you can't do better than this one https://bookshop.org/books/the-center-cannot-hold-my-journey-through-madness/9781401309442#:~:text=The%20Center%20Cannot%20Hold%20is,in%20an%20often%20terrifying%20world. 3/
This, by @Andrew_Solomon, is the alpha and omega of journalism about families. It's inspiring. Did I say that already? Well, it is. https://bookshop.org/books/far-from-the-tree-parents-children-and-the-search-for-identity/9780743236720 4/
And finally there is @stevesilberman's modern classic, which drove home for me the truths about neurodiversity in such a profound way https://bookshop.org/books/neurotribes-the-legacy-of-autism-and-the-future-of-neurodiversity-9781583334676/9780399185618 5/5