(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health

Author: Jensen, KellyBrand: Algonquin Young ReadersEdition: IllustratedFeatures: Book - (don't) call me crazy: 33 voices start the conversation about mental health Language: english Binding: paperback Binding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 240Release Date: 02-10-2018Part Number: Art throughout with 2-colour interiorDetails: A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2018 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