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"This zine looks at hidden, misinterpreted and misunderstood illnesses. Often these conditions can leave people feeling lonely and isolated. Dealing with these feelings can make a sufferer of whatever illness feel like they are the only one going through this, while everyone else is living their best lives. We want the zine to help people understand that even if your illness limits what you are able to do for months/years/lifetimes you are still valid. Your own scale of what is an achievement is all that matters. [...] Throughout this zine, we want to remind readers that cuts to NHS funding by the Tories put all of us at risk and directly reduce the quality of life people suffering from chronic illnesses. Our bodies should not be put in danger and free access to healthcare is a human right. The NHS is a lifeline for so many people, and cutting this is fatal. Save the NHS."--Page 3.

Feeling iffy : a zine for chronically ill babes / Club Foof.

Artificial Womb

10 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm

Artificial womb : a feminist arts zine. #19.

"A story without words. A picture of everyday survival. It's getting dark early. The first book from Hannah Bradshaw, Dark Early is an artist's portrayal of depression, the allure of self-destruction, and the ability to recreate one's identity."--From Amazon.com.

1 volume (unpaged) : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm

Dark early / Hannah Bradshaw.

A personal zine about mental health exploring the author's experiences of taking citalopram for depression and suicidal ideation. Includes reproductions of the packaging and prescriptions, and the side effects of taking the drug on their sex life, relationships and diet.
"Trigger warning for suicide."--From cover.

7 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 11 cm

And for a minute there, I lost myself : part two: all of you, all of me fluorescent and starry.

"A zine about recovering from self harm throughout the different stages you go through. Topics include: first aid, self care, scar positivity and talking to people about your self harm. This is all based on my personal experiences as someone who has 'recovered' from self harm a whole bunch of times, and the things I've learnt along the way. Mostly support I've received from health workers has just been like "you HAVE to stop now, here are distractions" which has been really frustrating. So I focus more on staying as safe as you can do, stopping at a pace that is right for you and self care when you slip up. I've tried so hard to avoid triggering images/words/descriptions so you can read it safely but you may still need to take care reading it."--From zinester's website.

Dogs not diets.

Dogs not diets

(Still) healing... : a zine about coping with and healing from self harm / by Dogs not diets.

This zine was created to promote MadZines research project at Lakes Comic Art Festival in October 2021, and draws on the many and varied encounters in the first year of their research. <a href="https://madzines.org/madzines-in-the-lakes/">https://madzines.org/madzines-in-the-lakes/</a>

1 volume (unnumbered pages) : colour illustrations ; 22 cm

MadZines : intro.

Medical Heritage Library

vii, 5-196 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 18 cm

From under the cloud; or, personal reminiscences of insanity / By Anna Agnew.

Content warning: suicide, self harm and masturbation.
"Misremembering Sarah Kane Through My Own Suicide Attempts is a comic book zine about my own experiences with mental health, suicide and self harm. The zine features text, essays and comics. It is an abstract retelling of how I confuse my memories with my experiences of watching and reading plays by the cult 1990's playwright Sarah Kane. I use comic books as a means to discuss being a suicide survivor and how this can affect memory and personal experiences. Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English playwright who is known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological—and death."--From zinester's website. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/709565236/misremembering-sarah-kane-through-my-own">https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/709565236/misremembering-sarah-kane-through-my-own</a>

1 volume (unnumbered pages) : colour illustrations ; 21 cm

Misremembering Sarah Kane through my own suicide attempts / a comic book created by Steven Fraser.

'What do our pets do when they're not with us? Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton offer a tender, hilarious look at how they used everything from cutting-edge technology to psychics to track the adventures of their beloved cat Tibia.' --Provided by publisher.

viii, 159 pages : colour illustrations, colour map ; 21 cm

Lost cat : a true story of love, desperation, and GPS technology / Caroline Paul; drawings by Wendy MacNaughton.

"A poignant look at one woman's fight for herself, told in expressively scrawled drawings and commentary. Author Elizabeth Swados takes us on an intimate journey through her long-time struggle with depression that is by turns tender, funny, and uplifting, and will resonate with everyone affected by depression and those who love them. Through the author's charming and frenzied drawings, readers get a unique look into the experience of severe depression, from the black cloud forming in the horizon, to the strained relationships, the side effects of anti-depressants, and the difficulty getting out of bed and functioning. For the many people who suffer from depression, this is a reminder that they are not alone and that their experiences are legitimate and deserve to be part of mainstream awareness. This is an engaging and uplifting story of an illness that has been stigmatized for too long"

1 volume (unpaged) : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm

My depression : a picture book / by Elizabeth Swados.

"Unapologetically intimate essays on sex, death, mental illness, and other taboos by poet and writer Melissa Broder, the creator of @sosadtoday."--From cover.

So sad today / Melissa Broder.

"Content warning: this is an attempt to... remember the confused logic and childlike behaviour I indulged in at the height of my struggle with an eating disorder this year, after a friend encouraged me to write about hospitalisation."--Page 8.

11 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm

Artificial womb : feminist arts stuff. #20.

My experiences in a lunatic asylum / by a sane patient.

Trigger warning for all of this zine: mental illness, self harm, suicide.
"I have never liked talking about my mental health and still don't. But if you don't let it out it builds and rises and slowly but surely you are in a vat of tar and it doesn't seem like you can get out. (The tar is my diagnosed depression and borderline personality disorder if you haven't worked that analogy out yet). This zine is my way of talking about it. I started writing it hoping to just create a 'how to' to cope with depression. This was perhaps a little naive of me. I can't really dispense advice or coping skills without sharing how I came to need such tools, I feel like that would be insincere. This zine is also for you, because I know how sometimes its impossible to even start to describe how you feel, but I have this feeling that you will get there one day and get out of that tar."--From introduction.

16 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm

I am, I am, I am : a zine about coping with depression.

"In 2002 Lucy Newlyn found herself incarcerated in a mental hospital in Leeds. she had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act as a danger to herself and others during a psychotic episode after several nights without sleep. The psychosis was triggered by nearly three years of grieving for a dead sister, followed by a vigil at her father's deathbed during which she hallucinated that his hospital ward was a trench in the First World War. The episode uncovered psychiatric problems, which led in due course to a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder (manic depression). this condition, which involves extreme moodswings, is classified as a disability and requires medication; but it is also a source of creativity, giving access to some unusual dimensions of human experience. In her fifteen-year diary, Lucy Newlyn discloses recurring episodes of mania, depression, hallucination and paranoid delusion. Describing her struggles with family life and the workplace, she de-mystifies bipolarity and critiques an environment which still, even in the twenty-first century, is suspicious of mental illness. Above all, she celebrates the discovery that writing poetry enables a cathartic engagement with her own condition."--From jacket.

Diary of a bipolar explorer / Lucy Newlyn.

Bryony Gordon has OCD. It's the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a teenager that her world is about to come crashing down: that her family might die if she doesn't repeat a phrase 5 times, or that she might have murdered someone and forgotten about it. It's caused alopecia, bulimia, and drug dependency. And Bryony is sick of it. Keeping silent about her illness has given it a cachet it simply does not deserve, so here she shares her story with trademark wit and dazzling honesty. A hugely successful columnist for the Telegraph, a bestselling author, and a happily married mother of an adorable daughter, Bryony has managed to laugh and live well while simultaneously grappling with her illness. Now it's time for her to speak out. Writing with her characteristic warmth and dark humour, Bryony explores her relationship with her OCD and depression as only she can. Mad Girl is a shocking, funny, unpredictable, heart-wrenching, raw and jaw-droppingly truthful celebration of life with mental illness.

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Feeling iffy : a zine for chronically ill babes / Club Foof.

Artificial womb : a feminist arts zine. #19.

Dark early / Hannah Bradshaw.

And for a minute there, I lost myself : part two: all of you, all of me fluorescent and starry.

(Still) healing... : a zine about coping with and healing from self harm / by Dogs not diets.

MadZines : intro.

From under the cloud; or, personal reminiscences of insanity / By Anna Agnew.

Misremembering Sarah Kane through my own suicide attempts / a comic book created by Steven Fraser.

Lost cat : a true story of love, desperation, and GPS technology / Caroline Paul; drawings by Wendy MacNaughton.

My depression : a picture book / by Elizabeth Swados.

So sad today / Melissa Broder.

Artificial womb : feminist arts stuff. #20.

My experiences in a lunatic asylum / by a sane patient.

I am, I am, I am : a zine about coping with depression.

Diary of a bipolar explorer / Lucy Newlyn.

Mad girl / Bryony Gordon.

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Feeling iffy : a zine for chronically ill babes / Club Foof.

Artificial womb : a feminist arts zine. #19.

Dark early / Hannah Bradshaw.

And for a minute there, I lost myself : part two: all of you, all of me fluorescent and starry.

(Still) healing... : a zine about coping with and healing from self harm / by Dogs not diets.

MadZines : intro.

From under the cloud; or, personal reminiscences of insanity / By Anna Agnew.

Misremembering Sarah Kane through my own suicide attempts / a comic book created by Steven Fraser.

Lost cat : a true story of love, desperation, and GPS technology / Caroline Paul; drawings by Wendy MacNaughton.

My depression : a picture book / by Elizabeth Swados.

So sad today / Melissa Broder.

Artificial womb : feminist arts stuff. #20.

My experiences in a lunatic asylum / by a sane patient.

I am, I am, I am : a zine about coping with depression.

Diary of a bipolar explorer / Lucy Newlyn.

Mad girl / Bryony Gordon.

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