depression (psychology)

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.

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.

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.