depression, mental

The author reflects on the legacy of mental illness in his family, discussing the family members who suffered from it, some who committed suicide, and how it effected his relationship with his brother.

The author describes his decade-long obsession with alcohol and drugs that eventually culminated in a stay at a mental institution.

Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a high school student also known as Skim, experiences the full gamut of teenage angst, which is made worse by a broken arm and her parents' separation.

While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.

Twelve-year-old Lisa Grey struggles to cope with a mother whose traumatic experiences as a nurse in Vietnam during the war are still haunting her.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about topics related to anxiety and depression, provides an overview of mental health and mental disorders, and includes sidebars, question and answer boxes, and hotlines and help sites.

An autobiographical novel which chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a gifted young woman working for the summer as a junior editor at a New York magazine in the early 1950s.

A young boy in the inner city becomes so depressed by the circumstances of his life that he considers suicide, but when he goes to stay at a farm and is given the responsibility of caring for a hawk with a broken wing, he gains the courage to go on.

Provides an overview of bipolar disorder, an illness characterized by drastic mood swings; discusses its causes, symptoms, and diagnosis; considers the role of medication, psychotherapy, and other therapies; and offers advice on how to cope with the disorder, and how to get help.

A memoir in which the author discusses his life as a sufferer of manic depression, telling how misdiagnoses and escalating illness drove him to actions that sometimes put his life in danger, and eventually led him to opt for electroshock therapy.