(Don't) Call Me Crazy by Kelly Jensen

By: Kelly Jensen

33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health

Genre: Young Adult | Non-Fiction

Algonquin Young Readers
October 1, 2018
On Sale: October 2, 2018
Featuring:
240 pages
ISBN: 1616207817
EAN: 9781616207816
Kindle: B079VZS8F9
Trade Size / e-Book

Book Summary

Who’s Crazy?
 
What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when a label like that gets attached to your everyday experiences?
 
To understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there’s no single definition of crazy, there’s no single experience that embodies it, and the word itself means different things—wild? extreme? disturbed? passionate?—to different people.
 
In (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, thirty-three actors, athletes, writers, and artists offer essays, lists, comics, and illustrations that explore a wide range of topics:

their personal experiences with mental illness,
how we do and don’t talk about mental health,
help for better understanding how every person’s brain is wired differently,
and what, exactly, might make someone crazy.

If you’ve ever struggled with your mental health, or know someone who has, come on in, turn the pages . . . and let’s get talking.

This award-winning anthology is from the highly-praised editor of Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World and Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy.

(DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY

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