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October 9, 2015

Mise-en-scène: Mental Health

October 9, 2015

Mise-en-scene: Mental Health - All the Bright Places

For this week’s Mise-en-scène we commemorate World Mental Health Day ahead of tomorrow. Georgie and I felt so strongly about the importance of raising awareness, we fixed this one theme months ago, before we had even decided how to fill the preceding weeks.

Mental health is often difficult to deal with because it can’t be measured on a fixed scale. There’s no one point at which we can say for sure someone’s no longer healthy. As my professor used to quip, “Who’s to say we aren’t all a little bit crazy?”

The reason I chose to feature All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven is that Finch is someone who battles with bipolar disorder. Nobody seems to notice. When he’s finally diagnosed, he’s in denial about it, refusing to be labelled.

Here’s the thing, labels aside, it’s important to inform ourselves about signs of mental illness. Being able to recognize when someone needs help could save their lives. At the same time, don’t discriminate against people according to their mental health status. People are humans, not their illnesses.


Which other books raise awareness about mental health?

Visit Georgie’s blog tomorrow to view her post on mental health. If you’re participating in Mise-en-scène, remember to leave your link in the linky widget down below!

Mise-en-scène is a weekly feature/meme that Georgie and I created to challenge ourselves in (bookish) photography.

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  1. Josephine says

    October 10, 2015 at 08:40

    I think it’s absolutely great that you are addressing this topic! This is one that is close to my heart and I am always on the lookout for books that raise mental health awareness. One that I know of is Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella. I haven’t read it but the main character has a mental illness (which I forgot, silly me!).
    Also! Made You Up by (someone I forgot also) deals with someone who is schizophrenic, I think!

    Wonderful post!

  2. Maraia says

    October 10, 2015 at 03:42

    Every Last Word and Made You Up are the books I’ve read this year than handle mental health the best. I recommend them both. :)

  3. Inge @ Bookshelf Reflections says

    October 9, 2015 at 21:08

    Yes. Thank you for this.

    Just… yes.

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    October 12, 2015 at 19:46

    […] was a lull this week on the blog. The one post that I did post was important though: mental health for Mise-en-scène in tandem with Word Mental Health […]

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