Membership Library

These books are free to borrow for all NAMI Richland County members. Simply ‘checkout’ the book you would like to borrow and it will email us your request. Pickup can then be scheduled at your convenience. All books can be checked out for a two-week period with a possible renewal depending on the waitlist.

Crazy

Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son—in the throes of a manic episode—broke into a neighbor’s house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law.

Insane

America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders.

In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to show how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker.

Fighting the Demon of Suicide

This is a triumphant story about how to prevent, defeat, and conquer the mental demons that haunt everyone at one point in their life and what every young student encounters during their high school years across the nation.

The Feeling Good Handbook

Dr. David Burns introduced a groundbreaking, drug-free treatment for depression. In this bestselling companion, he reveals powerful new techniques and provides step-by-step exercises that help you cope with the full range of everyday problems. Free yourself from fears, phobias, and panic attacks, self-defeating attitudes and more.

The Lost Boy

This is the second installment of a trilogy of books which depict the life of David Pelzer who as a young boy was physically, emotionally, mentally, and psychologically abused by his obsessive mother.

The book discusses Pelzer's struggle with his ability to fit in and adapt to the new environment around him as he is put into foster care.

As nearly four million readers have learned from his three previous books, Dave Pelzer doesn't believe in feeling sorry for himself. Abused mercilessly by his mother as a child, Dave has taken everything that happened to him and turned it into something positive so that he can help others. Now happily married and with a child of his own, he celebrates the twin pillars of strength that saw him through his darkest hours: resilience and gratitude.

I am not sick, I don’t need help

About 50% of all people with schizophrenia and manic-depression do not understand that they are ill and refuse treatment.

Whether you are a family member or a therapist, in this book you will find hope in what the new research is revealing about the problem of poor insight into illness. Prepare to be surprised and to have new hope. There is much you can do to conquer denial.

Heaven Sent Me Kevin

I just held him for hours, trying to calm him down. As I held him, I could only pray to ask God to help me because I didn't know what was happening. I never expected for him to react this way to the voices in his head because he referred to the voices as his friends and he had once told me that he didn't want them to go away. This is the heartfelt true story of a woman who vowed to provide the best life possible for her precious son Kevin.

Counseling Suicidal People

This book is designed and written for the non-expert in clinical suicidology and includes recent advances and the current best practices for helping suicidal people.

The Insanity Offense

Dr. Torrey chronicles a disastrous swing in the balance of civil rights that has resulted in numerous violent episodes and left a vulnerable population of mentally ill people homeless and victimized. Interweaving in-depth accounts of landmark cases in California, Wisconsin, and North Carolina with a history of legislation and changes in the mental health care system,

A Man Named Dave

A Man Named Dave, which has sold over 1 million copies, is the gripping conclusion to Dave Pelzer’s inspirational and New York Times bestselling trilogy of memoirs that began with A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy.
"All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here. One day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself." These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother, and they represented the ultimate act of self-reliance.

An Unquiet Mind

The author shares her experience with bipolar disorder and how it affected her in various areas of her life from childhood up until the writing of the book. Narrated in the first person, the book shows the effect of her disorder in family and romantic relationships, professional life, and self-awareness, and highlights both the detrimental effects of the illness and the few positive ones.

Me, Myself, and Them

Kurt's mind had been hijacked by schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder that typically strikes during the late teen or young adult years. In Me, Myself, and Them, Kurt, now an adult, looks back from the vantage point of recovery and eloquently describes the debilitating changes in thoughts and perceptions that took hold of his life during his teens and twenties. As a memoir, this book is remarkable for its unvarnished look at the slow and difficult process of coming back from severe mental illness.

WRAP

The Wellness Recovery Action Plan® or WRAP®, is a self-designed prevention and wellness process that anyone can use to get well, stay well and make their life the way they want it to be. It was developed by a group of people searching for ways to overcome their own mental health issues and fulfil their goals.

A Child Called It

This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it."

Dave Pelzer’s inspirational books have helped countless others triumph over hardship and misfortune. In this book he shares the missing chapter of his life: as a boy on the threshold of adulthood. With sensitivity and insight, he recounts the relentless taunting he endured from bullies; but he also describes the thrill of making his first real friends—some of whom he still shares close relationships with today.