(Don't) call me crazy : 33 voices start the conversation about mental health
| Print Book 2018 |
| Available at 29 Libraries 29 of 29 copies |
Summary
A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2018
Who's Crazy?
What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when a label like that gets attached to your everyday experiences?
To understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there's no single definition of crazy, there's no single experience that embodies it, and the word itself means different things--wild? extreme? disturbed? passionate?--to different people.
In (Don't) Call Me Crazy , thirty-three actors, athletes, writers, and artists offer essays, lists, comics, and illustrations that explore a wide range of topics:
their personal experiences with mental illness,
how we do and don't talk about mental health,
help for better understanding how every person's brain is wired differently,
and what, exactly, might make someone crazy. If you've ever struggled with your mental health, or know someone who has, come on in, turn the pages . . . and let's get talking.
This award-winning anthology is from the highly-praised editor of Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World and Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy.
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Who's Crazy?
What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when a label like that gets attached to your everyday experiences?
To understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there's no single definition of crazy, there's no single experience that embodies it, and the word itself means different things--wild? extreme? disturbed? passionate?--to different people.
In (Don't) Call Me Crazy , thirty-three actors, athletes, writers, and artists offer essays, lists, comics, and illustrations that explore a wide range of topics:
their personal experiences with mental illness,
how we do and don't talk about mental health,
help for better understanding how every person's brain is wired differently,
and what, exactly, might make someone crazy. If you've ever struggled with your mental health, or know someone who has, come on in, turn the pages . . . and let's get talking.
This award-winning anthology is from the highly-praised editor of Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World and Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy.
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Contents
Defying definition / by Shaun David HutchinsonDefining the thing is the trick / by Ashley Holstrom
What I know and what I don't know / by Dior Vargas
What's, well, "crazy"? / by Sarah Hannah Gómez
Being heard and hating sound / by Stephanie Kuehn
I hate to interrupt this conversation about mental illness, but guess what
I'm autistic / by Mike Jung
Autistic authors who Mike Jung thinks are great / by Mike Jung
The devil inside / by Christine Heppermann
10 horror films about fear / by Stephanie Kuehn
Manic pixie dream girl ["pixie dream" crossed out] / by S. Jae-Jones
Constellations of scars / by Monique Bedard (Aura)
Constellations of scars (art) / by Monique Bedard (Aura)
Top 10 crazies in fiction / by S.E. Smith
What we're born with and what we pick up along the way / by Heidi Heilig
Some of the things mania assures me I could totally be
and wouldn't it be glorious? / by Heidi Heilig
The alchemy of healing / by Emily Mayberry
Bless this mess / by Amy Reed
Loosened associations / by Esmé Weijun Wang
Meeting disorder / Jessica Tremaine
I underwent cosmetic surgery for my body dysmorphia ... and I wish I hadn't / by Reid Ewing
Flattened / by Susan Juby
Dear 14-year-old MILCK / by MILCK
Rituals / by Libba Bray
The five people you overhear when depressed at a Van Gogh exhibit / by Emery Lord
Mystic / by Gemma Correll
Fighting the war on the home front / by Clint van Winkle
Ways to say "anxiety" / by Esmé Weijun Wang
The train of overthinking / by Gemma Correll
Black hole / by Victoria "V.E." Schwab
I'm over staying silent about depression / by Kristen Bell
Telephone anxiety / by Gemma Correll
Driver's ed / by Mary Isabel
The pretender / by Lisa Jakub
Compassion training: metta meditation / by Lisa Jakub
Coda / by Meredith Russo
Tearing feelings apart / by Yumi Sakugawa
The light bulb, the broom, and the work they don't tell you about / by Kelly Jensen
Happiness goes on / by Adam Silvera
Survival mode / by Hannah Bae
A witch's guide / by S. Zainab Williams
Believe in yourself / by Nancy Kerrigan
Call me crazy / by S.E. Smith
Keep going / by Esmé Weijun Wang.
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| Subjects |
Mental illness
-- Case studies.
Mental health -- Case studies. Young adults -- Mental health -- Case studies. Creative nonfiction. Case studies. Self-help publications. |
| Publisher | Chapel Hill, North Carolina :2018 |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Other Titles | 33 voices start the conversation about mental health Do not call me crazy |
| Contributors |
Jensen, Kelly,
editor. |
| Language |
English |
| Description |
xi, 225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography Notes |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN | 9781616207816 1616207817 |
| Other | Classic View |