The Achiever Fever Cure: How I Learned to Stop Striving Myself Crazy by Claire Booth

Booth coined the term “achiever fever” to describe constant striving coupled with chronic feelings of inadequacy. Sick and tired of feeling miserable, the self-help skeptic decides to try anything that might bring relief, from mindfulness to martial arts, from spending ten days in silence to smiling at her spleen. Booth is fearful that slowing down and softening up will mean losing her professional edge; instead, she discovers a more joyful and purposeful life. 

Move Your Mind: How to Build a Healthy Mindset for Life by Nick Bracks

An indispensable guide to creating long-term behavior changes that promote increased happiness, decreased anxiety and stress, and better relationships. Told through the author’s own experiences with mental illness, this book offers a holistic approach to improving your mental health and guidance on how to take small, gradual steps that lead to big changes. 

How Not to Fall Apart: Lessons Learned on the Road from Self-Harm to Self-Care by Maggy van Eijk

What helps and what hurts on the road to self-awareness and better mental health? Van Eijk's memoir seeks to answer these questions with her own hard-won lessons and share what it's like to live with anxiety and depression, panic attacks, and self-harm and self-loathing. It's also a hopeful roadmap written by someone who's been there and is still finding her way.

Out of My Mind: A Psychologist's Decent into Madness and Back by  Shalom Camenietzki 

Dr. Camenietzki seemed to have it all – a beautiful family, a thriving practice, and supportive friends and colleagues. In reality, he lived a life of turmoil – obsessive daydreams, periods of mania, disturbing acts of violence, and various episodes of psychosis. A fascinating account of a “mentally disordered healer,” the book reveals the strengths and fallibilities of traditional psychotherapies.