num_pages: 320
description: Every year one in four American adults suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder. In these true stories writers and their loved ones struggle as their worlds are upended. What do you do when your father kills himself or your mother is committed to a psych ward or your daughter starts hearing voices telling her to harm herselfor when you yourself hear such voices? Addressing bipolar disorder OCD trichillomania self-harm PTSD and other diagnoses these stories vividly depict the difficulties and sorrowsand sometimes too the unexpected and surprising rewardsof living with mental illness.
language: English
title: Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of Living with Mental Illness
publisher: In Fact Books