Novel about Mental Illness?
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Re: Novel about Mental Illness?
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It's a illness rampant in today it gives lots of expectations of the same.
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Basically, it's a story about a woman who moves to a new town to take care of her schizophrenic aunt but becomes mentally ill herself as the story progresses.
Besides the ones that have already been mentioned in this thread, We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver comes to mind. It's the story of a mother whose son commits mass murder in school at the age of 16. It tells how he was sociopathic and manipulative from his early days, and how she learned to live with him and the consequences of his actions.
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As for fiction, I read the YA novel Freaks Like Us recently about a boy with schizophrenia whose best friend disappears and he gets blamed. Because of his disease, he literally can't remember what happened that day but he holds onto his belief that he would never have hurt her and resolves to help the police find her. The author writes it from the characters point of view, including everything going on in his head because of his disorder. It's stressful to read because of it, but it makes it an extremely good book.
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Coming late to this discussion - I don't know the other one mentioned here, but I think The Yellow Wallpaper is terrific - I believe it's semi-autobiographic as the author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, had a similar illness but rejected the doctor's advice, which was not to write.
Another great book is Regeneration by Pat Barker; this is set in a psychiatric hospital near Edinburgh during the First World War. Many characters in the book are real people, included Siegfried Sassoon, the war poet, and the psychiatrist who treated him, W.H.R. Rivers. Barker had access to Rivers' notes, I think. It's the first part of a trilogy - all very good.