NEURODIVERGENT TITLES
MONSTERMIND : DEALING WITH ANXIETY & SELF-DOUBT Ablaze Created by : Alfonso Casas 9781950912476 Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir / Psychology / Mental Health
Alfonso Casas ’ s MonsterMind is a very personal account of the inner monsters that live inside his head . But , who doesn ’ t have a monster inside them ?
Who has never heard that voice inside their head undermining everything they do ? You ’ re not good enough … You just got really lucky … There are people far better and more qualified than you …
In a very honest exercise , Alfonso Casas identifies and introduces his own monsters to his readers : Mr . Past Traumas , Mr . Fear , Mr . Social Anxiety , Mr . Impostor Syndrome , Mr . Sadness , Mr . Doubt ... The pessimistic , the insecure , the self-demanding , the monster that keeps you from sleeping while you think of what you could have said back in that conversation two years ago , or that keeps you looking over the punctuation of every text message to figure out the tone lurking beneath the surface . All those monsters make up the bestiary of contemporary society .
But the anxiety generation is expert in more things : in looking inside themselves and their lives , and — why not ? — in laughing at their own neuroses as best they can . In the end , if the monsters won ’ t leave us , we might as well get to know them and laugh at them !
TRACES OF MADNESS : A GRAPHIC MEMOIR Graphic Mundi Created by : Fernando Balius , Mario Pellejer 9781637790700 Psychology / Psychopathology / Schizophrenia / Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir
Fernando Balius was a perfectly ordinary , if misunderstood , young adult — until he started hearing voices .
In Traces of Madness , Fernando describes what it feels like , both mentally and physically , to lose your grip on reality . His life spins out of control when the voices he hears inside his head , depicted in the narrative as a monster , work to destroy his self-esteem and , worse , urge him to hurt himself . Various psychiatric diagnoses and prescribed medications do more harm than good , prompting Fernando to question whether stifling his voices is truly the right path for him . Throughout his experiences , he finds that his connections with others lend him the strength to survive .
A FOX IN MY BRAIN Fairsquare Comics Created by : Lou Lubie 9781960171108 Manga / Nonfiction / Contemporary Women / Biography & Memoir / Psychology After troubled years , Lou finally discovers what ’ s causing chaos in her brain : it ’ s her cyclothymia ... a bipolar disorder that appears to her in the form of a fox ! Lou will have to deal with it , tame the Fox and learn to overcome her condition … With humor . Lots of it !
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