May is Mental Health Awareness Month. One in four people in the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives. Read some of these heartbreaking, and often humorous, graphic memoirs highlighting depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and disordered eating, and help break the stigma.
Lindsay’s memoir focuses on the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity, and the often unavoidable choice between sanity and happiness.
This hand-drawn story touches on Green’s struggle with of eating disorders, abuse and recovery.
In her second collection dased on her popular blog, Allie Brosh shares her illustrated experience with mental struggles as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life. Be sure to also check out her first collected work, Hyperbole and a Half.
Just Peachy revolves around the artist’s experience living with depression and anxiety and finding humor in life.
White’s “mostly true” graphic memoir details her lengthy hospital stay as a teenager as a result of abusing drugs, hiding her disordered eating and bulimia, and the effects of an emotionally abusive relationship.
Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, Forney began a years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passions and creativity.
In the wake of a mystery illness and surgery, Porcellino experienced numerous health complications that led to a flare-up of his anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
In this intimate and moving memoir, Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet.