Mental Illness Web Novels

This tag collects novels that portray mental illness as lived experience rather than plot decoration: depression, anxiety, trauma, and the slow, non-linear work of recovery. Tone ranges from raw to gentle; check content warnings on each novel for specifics. Frequent pairings: psychological, healing, slice-of-life.

The shelf ranges from novels where a condition is depicted with care to novels where an unreliable mind is the formal device. Both are here and they are not the same reading experience. Pairs with psychological and unreliable-narrator for the second. Individual novels carry their own content warnings; check those before starting.