3 Books to Tackle Main Character Syndrome

Bijal A Shah
3 min readJan 11, 2022

Main Character Syndrome isn’t new and has always existed. However, it has recently been gaining significant prominence as a growing mental health concern, thanks to a TikTok trend where users have made self-deprecating videos, poking fun at themselves for feeling like a protagonist while partaking in completely mundane activities. The hashtag #maincharacter currently has 5.2 billion views on the video-sharing app.

Bijal A Shah

Bibliotherapist, author, poet & founder of Book Therapy - therapy using the power of literature: https://www.booktherapy.io/ and www.bit.ly/bibliotherapycourse