A review by ammmiiiii
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

A raw, unflinching look at the realities of living a life with mental illness. 

The book describes the lives of several people who have different mental illnesses, like anorexia, BPD, and schizophrenia, with the help of their families, their doctors, their friends, and themselves. In this way, it uniquely explores the effect that their illnesses had on their loved ones.