Characters living with mental health challenges or mental illnesses have had a place in fiction for a long time, but the portrayal of these characters has not always been compassionate or de-stigmatizing. In this episode, Emily and Anne talk about how mental health challenges have been written in a disrespectful and ignorant way in the past, and how many contemporary YA novels are now portraying these characters in a respectful, helpful way.
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion of suicidal ideation and self-harm in fiction.
What Anne's reading: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005Y0N198/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
What Emily's reading: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JE1KLU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
