manic-depressive illness

Explores the issues surrounding depression by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro/con format. Features articles that express various perspectives on this topic.

Provides an overview of depression, discussing who it affects, indications of depression, treatment options, and how to offer support for a friend or family member suffering from depression.

Lucy Peevey, twelve, and her best friend, Cam, are perfecting the robot that could win a competition, a scholarship, and a way out of Sunnyside Trailer Park when Lucy's mother goes off her medication and her manic-depressive disorder goes out of control.

Discusses bipolar disorder, covering the four types, being diagnosed, medications, and dealing with school.

Best friends Hannah and Zoe, seventeen, leave their down-and-out New Jersey town and drive west chasing storms, making new friends, and seeking the intangibles--audacity, insouciance, happiness--that their lives have lacked.

Ten-year-old Dolphin is determined to stay with her family, no matter what, but when her sister goes to live with her newly-discovered father, sending their mother further into manic-depression, Dolphin's life takes a turn for the better.

Morris and Betty meet and fall in love in Stockholm, Sweden, but the darkness within each of them makes it hard to maintain their love affair, especially after Betty compares Morris's behavior to that of his bipolar father.

Discusses the latest developments that have been made in the study and treatment of depression; includes information about what causes depression, what the symptoms are, who is at risk, how it is treated, and other related topics.