Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg

This memoir accurately portrays the turmoil and calamity that befalls a family when one of them becomes mentally ill.

Greenberg's fifteen-year-old daughter suddenly becomes mentally ill; she has visions and is struck inexplicably "mad." Most of the events in the memoir occur during the summer of 1996 in Greenwich Village.

Sally briefly stays in mental hospital where she is given drugs that slowly calm her mania. Greenberg ponder other famous depressives, Robert Lowell, for instance, who wrote eloquently about manic illness. 

Winner of the NAMI Ken book award, this work not only describes Sally's illness but also its terrible effects on other family members--the girl's grandmother, mother, stepmother, and brother. 

Get Out of Your Own Way by Dave Hollis

Hollis, Dave. Get out of Your Own Way.

"I suffered from this disease of always having to be right in any conversation and all arguments for most of my life."--Dave Hollis.

Its honesty like that statement that really drew me in and made me want to read this book. A natural skeptic, Hollis describe a long evolution in his thinking. At first, he was opposed to the self-help movement an is now the CEO of the Hollis company, a company that asserts it gives people the tools to make positive, lasting change.