depression, mental

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.

Presents case histories of teenagers who have problems with stress, anxiety, or depression. Discusses techniques for dealing with these emotions.

When her father becomes clinically depressed, fifteen-year-old Zoe worries that his illness will engulf the entire family.

Hoping to help their troubled father, who has been sitting on his roof for several days, Worm and his older brother set out from their mother's house on a trek across suburban Virginia.

Illustrations and simple text teach children about depression, with information about its causes, symptoms, and treatments, as well as many self-help options for those coping with a depressed parent.