Graphic Medicine
Information on the use of the comics medium to explore issues in healthcare.
Mental Health
Books in the Health Sciences Library
Anxiety Is Really Strange by What is the difference between fear and excitement and how can you tell them apart? How do the mind and body make emotions? When can anxiety be good? This science-based graphic book addresses these questions and more.
Also available as ebook
Bitter medicine : a graphic memoir of mental illness by The Martini family's struggles to comprehend and cope with schizophrenia, frustrated by the health care system, the imperfect science of medication, and the strain of mental illness.
Hyperbole and a Half by Autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.
Lighter Than My Shadow by A graphic memoir of eating disorders, abuse and recovery.
Living with a Black Dog by Provides insight into what is is like to live with depression, a condition Winston Churchill called a "Black dog", and the strength and support that can be found within and around us to tame it.
Marbles by Chronicles the author's diagnosis of bipolar disorder and her fear that medications would cause her to lose her creativity and livelihood. Inspired by the lives and work of other artist and writers in history who suffered from mood disorders, she sought to find mental stability without losing herself or her passion.
Psychiatric Tales by A reasoned and sympathetic look into the world of mental illness, both from the point of view of those experiencing illness and their friends and relatives. Also shows how society's perceptions of and reactions to mental illness perpetuate stigma.
Rx: A Graphic Memoir by This is the author's experience of her bipolar disorder and being treated for a mental illness as a commodity. It explores the often unavoidable choice between sanity and happiness.
Swallow Me Whole by Two stepsiblings hold together amidst schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, family breakdown, animal telepathy, misguided love, and the tiniest hope that everything will someday make sense.
Trauma Is Really Strange by What is trauma? How does it change the way our brains work? And how can we overcome it? This comic explains the strange nature of trauma and how it confuses the brain and affects the body.
Also available as ebook.
Webcomics
- Asylum SquadCreated during the author's year long stay in a Toronto mental institution. A "romp through madness and the mental health care system, sure to delight those who have “been there” as well as those who work in the system who “get it.”"
- From Truth with Truth: a Kinda Graphic MemoirChronicles the author’s life growing-up, love of comics, and his experience with bipolar disorder and PTSD
- Hyperbole and a HalfAn excerpt from the massively popular book about living with anxiety and depression.
- Let's Talk About It: A Graphic Guide to Mental HealthAn inviting comic with tips for dealing with many kinds of mental distress and for reducing stigma around mental health issues.
- Mind over MatterFan zine that explores the relationship between superheroes and mental health.
- QuestionsQuestions about multiplicity, multiples and plurals
- Raised on Ritalin: A Medicated MemoirWhat's it's like to have ADHD and to go through life being medicated and to wonder, as an adult, if that was the right path
- Going Off My MedsThe reflections of a person who lives with clinical depression and suicidality, and her experiences trying to taper off her meds.
- The Myth of the Strong Black WomanDismantling long-standing myths and stigma regarding the Black community (specifically women) and mental health