(Don't) Call Me Crazy : 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
by
Kelly Jensen
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1616207817
ISBN-13
9781616207816
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Imprint
Algonquin Young Readers
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 2nd, 2018
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Dimensions
18.00 x 22.90 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Personal & social issues: body & health (Children's / Teenage)
Ksh 2,500.00
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Essays, lists, poems, and art explore the ways in which 33 contributors cope—and thrive—with mental illness including actress Kristen Bell, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, and bestselling YA authors like Libba Bray, Adam Silvera, and Victoria Schwab.
Talk openly about mental health with thirty-three diverse and empowering actors, athletes, writers, and artists in this Washington Post Best Children's Book. Contributors include: Kristin Bell, Nancy Kerrigan, S. Jae-Jones, Meredith Russo, V.E. Schwab, and Adam Silvera, among many others.
Who’s Crazy? What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when a label like that gets attached to your everyday experiences?
To understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there’s no single definition of crazy, there’s no single experience that embodies it, and the word itself means different things—wild? extreme? disturbed? passionate?—to different people.
In (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, actors, athletes, writers, and artists offer essays, lists, comics, and illustrations that explore a wide range of topics, including:
Who’s Crazy? What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when a label like that gets attached to your everyday experiences?
To understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there’s no single definition of crazy, there’s no single experience that embodies it, and the word itself means different things—wild? extreme? disturbed? passionate?—to different people.
In (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, actors, athletes, writers, and artists offer essays, lists, comics, and illustrations that explore a wide range of topics, including:
- Their personal experiences with mental illness;
- How we do and don’t talk about mental health;
- Help for better understanding how every person’s brain is wired differently;
- What, exactly, might make someone crazy.
This award-winning anthology is from the highly-praised editor of Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World and Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy.
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