depression, mental

New York City teenager Craig Gilner succumbs to academic and social pressures at an elite high school and enters a psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide.

Through a series of letters written to a post office box, twelve-year-old Cadence describes her father's hospitalization for depression, her subsequent problems at school, and her hope that the mysterious recipient will help her find a happy ending.

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.

Explains what depression is, offers a look at depression throughout history, and describes what causes people to get depressed, why depression is increasing among young people, and various treatment options.

Text and first-person accounts present the experiences of teenagers who have coped with and tried to overcome depression.

Offers young readers and researchers a means of understanding teen depression and the ramifications. Clear, careful explanations offer insight into what this condition is, what causes the condition, how people live with the condition, and the latest information about treatment and prevention.

Discusses a number of mental health disorders in teens including bipolar disorder, self-mutilation, suicide, and clinical depression; and offers advice on identifying problems and dealing with them effectively.

Professor of psychiatry Nassir S. Ghaemi examines the relationship between mental illness and leadership and draws on research and historical studies to theorize that the qualities of individuals with mood disorders are necessary for leaders to have during times of crisis.

Examines the prevalence of mental illness among gay individuals, and discusses how readers can reduce or eliminate threats that would cause a homosexual person to become depressed and suicidal.

The author shares her struggles with self-esteem, drug addiction, and depression; and describes how she admitted herself to a mental institution after she put her fist through a window.