This research paper explores the concept of narrative hailing the mental dilemma due to the impact and implications of the autography and memoirs. It tries to analyze the influence of autobiographies and memoirs on public perception of mental health, exploring how personal recovery narratives can challenge stigma, raise awareness, and contribute to a more nuanced understanding of mental health issues. I’ll be choosing Iranian woman autobiographies in order to understand the impact of an autobiography over the stabilization of mental health and process of its awareness towards the society. This paper explores the concept of narrative healing, focusing on the influence of autobiographies and memoirs on mental health awareness, with a particular emphasis on Iranian women’s autobiographies.

The self written narratives by Iranian women writers had immensely contributed towards the process of upholding the marginalized strata of the society to the world. I will be looking forward to explain the benefits and uses of reading and writing autobiographies and memoirs in respect with its role that it plays while reducing the stigma of the mental awareness. An Autobiography is a narrative account or a real life documentary, which indeed expose the actual historical and realistic facts, which is very significant in creating and promoting empathy towards the society. In the past few decades, mental health awareness has undergone significant transformation, spurred in part by the growing number of autobiographies and memoirs that explore personal experiences with mental illness. Psychology and biological studies have consistently shown that structured writing about traumatic or stressful events, when writers delve beyond factual description into emotional processing, alleviates both psychological and physical symptoms.  Researchers link these effects to “narrative identity” – the evolving life story people use to reconcile past hardships with future aspirations. Redemptive and agentic narratives are associated with greater mental health and maturity. In trauma treatment, autobiographical writing empowers survivors to break their silence, reclaiming authorship over their pasts, and being recognized as an ethical and artistic process that fosters embodied recovery and psychoanalytic exploration.

All these first-person autobiographies play an impeccable role in breaking the stereotypes while emphasising the health issues, social stigma, and a rational understanding of society. Unlike any other, scientific or practical texts, an autobiography will give a clear picture of the actual reality of society while creating abstract lived experiences which are very much relatable and humanized. This paper examines the role of autobiographies and memoirs in shaping mental health discourse, focusing on their ability to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and create new pathways for empathy and connection in the broader public consciousness.

Keywords: consciousness, stigma, marginalized, resistance, scientific temper, mental illness.