Book Recommendations
Includes areas of addiction, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Co-Dependency, and other mental health conditions.
A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction
Patrick Kennedy and and Stephen Fried
"Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles."
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Melody Beattie
"Is someone else’s problem your problem? If, like so many others, you’ve lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to someone else’s, you may be codependent–and you may find yourself in this book."
Dreamland
Sam Quinines
"In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America--addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland."
Evicted
Mathew Desmond
"Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. "
Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Age of Fentanyl and Meth
Sam Quinones
"In fentanyl, traffickers landed a painkiller a hundred times more powerful than morphine. They laced it into cocaine, meth, and counterfeit pills to cause tens of thousands of deaths―at the same time as Mexican traffickers made methamphetamine cheaper and more potent than ever, creating, Sam argues, swaths of mental illness and a surge in homelessness across the United States."
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity
Nadine Burke Harris
"For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the fascinating scientific insight and innovative, acclaimed health interventions in The Deepest Well represent vitally important hope for preventing lifelong illness for those we love and for generations to come?"