10/14 Wed 6:15 – 7:30pm Celebrate World Mental Health Day and Books Purchased by the University of Oregon NE Portland Campus Library

Join us in Portland’s Albina Library to have fun in community as we celebrate World Mental Health Day on Wed, Oct. 14th from 6:15 – 7:30pm, 205 NE Russell Street, Portland, OR 97212, in the lower-level meeting room.

The short program, which is also celebrating the University of Oregon purchasing books by lived experience authors, includes State of Oregon Senator Lew Frederick and award-winning lived experience poet Sherry Levine. There will be time to visit the table of various Portland and Oregon mental health non-profits and support groups.

Meet others who are thriving and creating a better City of Portland and world for all of us, no matter their emotional states.

You may RSVP here or just show up:

The University of Oregon N.E. Portland campus librarians chose to purchase the 13 books listed below, most written by mental health lived experience writers. They put them into the university system where students and the public can read them and check them out.

The books being celebrated and available to check out of the University of Oregon Library NE Portland include:

Mud Flower: Surviving Schizophrenia and Suicide Through Art by Meghan Caughey (Oregon author)

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Laura Delano

Heartbeats of Hope by Dan Fisher, MD, Phd

The Zyprexa Papers by Jim Gottstein

We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health Edited by L.D. Green and Kelechi Ubozoh

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden — by Joanne Greenberg or pen name Hannah Green

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison

Girl, Interrupted: A Memoir by Susanna Kaysen

Soul Survivor by Mary Maddock and Jim Maddock

Call Me Crazy: Stories from the Mad Movement by Irit Shimrat (Canada)

The Lunchbox Theory: Lessons Learned from Trauma and Abuse by Michael Skinner