World Mental Health Day and Book Celebration

Have fun in community as we celebrate World Mental Health Day and the NE Portland University of Portland library purchasing 13 books written by lived experience peers for students and the public to check out.

Come to also

• Hear published mental health lived experience poets including award-winning Sherri Levine share a few poems.
• Discover the non-profit organizations and support groups in Portland that really help people and families heal from mental health issues at their resource tables.
• Meet others who are thriving and creating a better City of Portland and world for all of us, no matter their emotional states.

The books being celebrated and available to check out of the U of Oregon Library NE Portland include:

Mud Flower: Surviving Schizophrenia and Suicide Through Art by Meghan Caughey* Portland Author!*

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Laura Delano

Heartbeats of Hope by Dan Fisher, MD, Phd

The Zyprexa Papers by Jim Gottstein

We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health Edited by L.D. Green and Kelechi Ubozoh

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden — by Joanne Greenberg or pen name Hannah Green

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison

Girl, Interrupted: A Memoir by Susanna Kaysen

Soul Survivor by Mary Maddock and Jim Maddock (Ireland)

Call Me Crazy: Stories from the Mad Movement by Irit Shimrat (Canada)

The Lunchbox Theory: Lessons Learned from Trauma and Abuse by Michael Skinner

Fighting for Recovery by Phyllis Vine

Your Consent is Not Required by Bob Wipond

Event venue & nearby stays

Multnomah County Albina Library, Lower Room 103, 205 NE Russell Street, Portland, United States

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