A comprehensive guide to bipolar disorder that explains causes and symptoms, and provides information and advice on self-help techniques, medications, and therapies; and also covers manic and depressive episodes, and other related topics.
Through her diary entries therapist Martha Manning tells how depression transformed her from a happy, healthy, and successful person to a suicidal sleepwalker and how electroconvulsive therapy helped her recover.
After losing his family farm, Mack, his wife Jodie, and their two children struggle to build a new life for themselves, but their efforts are soon threatened by Mack's overwhelming depression.
Authors present differing opinions on whether teen suicide is a major health problem, whether bullying increases the risk of teen suicide, and whether gay teens face an increased risk of suicide.
When Delilah, her mother, and her aunt spend the summer in Vermont settling Delilah's estranged grandmother's estate, long-held family secrets are painfully brought to light and Delilah finally learns some difficult truths about her family's past.
