Collage of six book covers on mental health. Titles: "Burnout," "Brain Energy," "Marbles," "Night Falls Fast," and "The Body Keeps the Score." Each cover features distinct colors and design.

Five Books for Mental Wellness for U & Others

Taking care of your mental health is as important as your physical health. Check out these reads & many others at the Marriott Library.

These titles were selected by Bri Altman, a student who works at the library.

Book cover of "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk, featuring a black silhouette of a person against a blue background with yellow stars.

The Body Keeps the Score
By Bessel van der Kolk

In this book Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the most experienced physicians in the field of emotional trauma, presents and discusses trauma and its effects in a way that is both beneficial to those interested in how it affects the mind and body as well as those who are personally impacted by trauma.

The book cover features a crumpled pink paper texture with white text. The bold title reads, "Burnout." Below, "the secret to unlocking the stress cycle" is written.

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
By Amelia and Emily Nagoski

This is a book for any woman who has felt overwhelmed and exhausted by everything she had to do, and yet still worried she was not doing “enough”

Cover of "Brain Energy" by Christopher M. Palmer, MD. Features a swirling blue-green pattern with white text highlighting mental health breakthroughs.

Brain Energy
By Christopher M. Palmer

Harvard Psychiatrist Dr. Christopher Palmer offers a new perspective on mental illness by compiling decades of scientific research and clinical experience to propose a ground-breaking theory on how we understand mental illness and analyzes new treatment pathways that this theory opens up.

Cover of "Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide" by Kay Redfield Jamison. Dark background with a cloud-like, blue-white mist surrounding the title.

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
By Kay Redfield Jamison

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the world amongst 15–29-year-olds. In Night Falls Fast, Jamison weaves together her own intimate perspective on the subject along with historical and scientific knowledge to offer to the reader an understanding of the suicidal mind.

Comic-style book cover titled "Marbles" shows a cartoon face looking up with colorful, curved stripes above. Emotions: curiosity, playfulness.

Marbles
By Ellen Forney

This is a visually engaging graphic memoir of Ellen Forney’s journey with a bipolar disorder diagnosis at age 30 and how it affected her life as an artist.

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