Life inside my mind
Subtitle: 31 authors share their personal struggles
By: edited by Jessica Burkhart
Edition: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781481494649
Subjects: Mental illness; Juvenile literature
Description: Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson, and more recount their own experiences with mental illness in this raw, real, and powerful collection of essays that explores everything from ADD to PTSD.
Notes: YA Childrens Plus, Inc.
Table of contents: title: "Stupid monsters and child surgeons" / by Maureen Johnson -- "Twenty pills" / by Robison Wells -- "Light and dark" / by Lauren Oliver -- "Escape clause" / by Jennifer L. Armentrout -- "Twins" by Amy Reed -- "Emphasis on the C" / by Aprilynne Pike -- "I am not this" / by Rachel M. Wilson -- "The girl in the kitchen" / by Dan Wells -- "Therapy: the gift I give myself" / by Amber Benson -- "This is how you unravel" / by E. Kristin Anderson -- "Some stuff" / by Sarah Fine -- "Beyond the bottom" / by Kelly Fiore-Stultz -- "All I see is hope" / by Ellen Hopkins -- "This thing inside me" / by Scott Neumyer -- "OCD: my tentacled monster" / by Crissa-Jean Chappell -- "Dirk" / by Francesca Lia Block -- "Waiting for the bad" / by Tara Kelly -- "Numb" / by Kimberly McCreight -- "My depression- a rock and a hard place" / by Megan Kelley Hall -- "Everything and anything" / by Hannah Moskowitz -- "Better than normal" / by Karen Mohaney -- "What if?" / by Tom Pollock -- "Objects in the mirror ..." / by Cyn Balog -- "How to deal with me...and my PTSD" / by Melissa Marr -- "Life by the slice" / by Wendy Toliver -- "I'm a survivor / by Cindy L. Rodriguez -- "Anxiety, the weed" / by Candace Ganger -- "By any means necessary" / by Sara Zarr -- "Put on a happy face" / by Cynthia Hand -- "My two-headed monster friend" / by Francisco X. Stork -- "It all ends here" / by Jessica Burkhart.