depression, mental

Examines the causes of teen-age depression and suicide and the role drugs play in the emotional upheavals of young people.

After Adam's brother-in-law Tom is killed in a car crash Adam blames himself, but over time learns to deal with his depression and comes to terms with his grief.

Describes the causes, types, and signs of depression, and available treatments for it. Also discusses a variety of issues related to teenage depression, including personal relationships and pressures, substance abuse, suicide, running away, and how to get help and develop coping skills.

Photographs and text discuss what depression is, depression and drug abuse, and how and where to get help.

Provides information about depression, discusses its causes, and describes how it can be cured.

Provides information about depression, discusses its causes, and describes how it can be cured.

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.