“In Every Story, There’s Strength”
Share your video or written story with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) HERE
The TUC Library has put together a list of websites, films, and books in recognition of NAMI’s 2025 theme for Mental Health Awareness Month: In Every Story, there is Strength. This list focuses on stories and experiences of mental illness, but the library also has a large collection of materials for health professionals and educators on mental health.
Websites:
National Alliance on Mental Illness Mental Health Awareness Month
Find your Local NAMI Affiliate
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Solano Connex (a partnership between Touro University California and Solano County)
Mental Health First Aid (free and paid courses available to the public)
TUC Library Wellness Guide - Key Local & National Resources
Films:
Anxious Nation - Vanessa Roth (Streaming, 51 minutes)
Bedlam - Kenneth Paul Rosenberg (Streaming, 1 hour 26 minutes)
Here One Day - Kathy Leichter (DVD, 76 minutes)
Resilience - James Redford (Streaming, 1 hour)
Wake Up - Nate Townsend (Streaming, 1 hour 28 minutes)
Books:
American Madness : Fighting for Patients in a Broken Mental Health System - Alice Feller (print book)
Asylum on the Hill : History of a Healing Landscape - Katherine Ziff (ebook)
The Best Minds : A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions - Jonathan Rosen (print book)
Brain on Fire : My Month of Madness - Susan Cahalan (print book)
The Center Cannot Hold : My Journey through Madness - Elyn R. Saks (print book)
The Collected Schizophrenias : Essays - Esmé Weijun Wang (print book)
A Cure for Darkness : The Story of Depression and How We Treat it - Alex Riley (print book)
Damaged: Childhood Trauma, Adult Illness, and the Need for a Health Care Revolution - Bob Maunder & Jon Hunter (print & ebook)
The Deepest Well : Healing the Long-term Effects of Childhood Adversity - Nadine Burke Harris (print book)
The Disordered Mind : What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves - Eric R. Kandel (print book)
Facing the Unseen : The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine - Damon Tweedy (print book)
Fallible : A Memoir of a Young Physician's Struggle with Mental Illness - Kyle Bradford Jones (print book)
Fires in the Dark : Healing the Unquiet Mind - Kay Redfield Jamison (print book)
Fix What You Can : Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker's Fight for Her Son - Mindy Greiling (ebook)
Healing the Broken Mind : Transforming America's Failed Mental Health System - Timothy A. Kelly (ebook)
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker (print & ebook)
LGBTQ Mental Health : International Perspectives and Experiences - Nadine Nakamura & Carmen H. Logie (print book)
Madness : Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum - Antonia Hylton (print book)
Man who Couldn't Stop : OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought - David Adam (print book)
Madness : Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum - Antonia Hylton (print book)
Marbles : Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me : A Graphic Memoir - by Ellen Forney (print book)
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind : My Tale of Madness and Recovery - Barbara K. Lipska (print book)
No One Cares about Crazy People : The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America - Ron Powers (print book)
Prozac Nation : Young and Depressed in America - Elizabeth Wurtzel (print book)
A Shining Affliction : A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy - Annie G. Rogers (print book)
Show Me All Your Scars : True Stories of Living with Mental Illness - Lee Gutkin (print book)
Strangers to Ourselves : Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us - Rachel Aviv (print book)
Swallow the Ocean : A Memoir - Laura M. Flynn (print book)
Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal from It (print book)
Understanding Mental Health and Mental Illness : An Exploration of the Past, Present, and Future - Paul H. Jenkins (print book)
An Unquiet Mind - Kay Redfield Jamison (print book)
What My Bones Know - Stephanie Foo (print book)
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