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Lucid books about fringe disorders or mental illnesses and the authors personal experience with them

>> No.10070857

Not first person, but Tausk's paper on the influencing machine has a lot of literary merit.

>> No.10070863

>>10070780
I'm writing a book (in the form of greentext) that details the horrors and tortures of my bipolar disorder and social anxiety. So, basically, my diary desu.

>> No.10070880

is the three christs of ysplanti any good?

>> No.10071160

>>10070857
Thanks I am gonna check this out.

Info and link to PDF btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_the_%22Influencing_Machine%22_in_Schizophrenia

>> No.10071176

>>10070863
>biploar
>horrors and tortures
Isn't bipolar disorder just feeling really good periodically followed by wanting to sleep a lot? Doesn't sound like horrors to me, my life's like that except without the feeling good part and I don't take psych meds for it.

>> No.10071183

>>10071176
That's 1000% not what being bipolar entails

>> No.10071189

>>10070780
A Journey Round My Skull

>> No.10071701

>>10071189
This. It's also from NYRB and it's surprisingly well written too, it could have been a dry account but the narrator is likable enough and has some quaint observations on the world around him

>> No.10071765

Notes from Underground

>> No.10071798

>>10071189
It isn't really about mental illness. It's about a brain tumor.
But the side-effects the author experiences cam be classified as "mental illness" maybe.
Still a damn good book.

>>10071701
He was considered the funniest guy in the country when he was alive.

>> No.10071812

>>10070863
yawn