Depression

Fiction

 Frank, E.R. [2002]. America: a Novel.
America, a runaway boy who is being treated at Ridgeway, a New York hospital, finds himself opening up to one of the doctors on staff and revealing things about himself that he had always vowed to keep secret.

Glenn, Mel.  [2000].  Split Image: a Story in poems. A series of poems reflect the thoughts and feelings of various people--students, the librarian, parents, the principal, and others--about the seemingly perfect Laura Li and her life inside and out of Tower High School.

Going, Kelly.  [2003]. Fat kids rules the world.
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly three hundred pounds, gets a new perspective on life when Curt, a semi-homeless teen who is a genius on guitar, asks Troy to be the drummer in a rock band.

Goldestein, Jan. All that matters. [2004]. Twenty-three-year-old Jennifer Stempler, her mother dead, her father remarried, and deserted by her love, makes a failed attempt to kill herself, but her obvious call for help is answered by her beloved grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, who takes Jennifer to her home in New York, and tries to give her a reason for living. 

Jenkins, A.M. [2001]. Damage.  Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special.

Levenkron, Steven. [1997]. The Luckiest girl in the world.  Figure-skating star KatieRoskova, unable to express her feelings of panic and anger, develops a habit of cutting herself with scissors and hiding her scars beneath long-sleeve shirts, but as pressures mount her wounds becomes more serious and soon her secret is revealed. 

Marchetta, Melina.  [2004].  Saving Francesca.  16 year old Francesca could use her mother’s help, since she is one of the handful of girls at a school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has become severely depressed.   

Miller, Mary Beth. [2004]. Aimee.
This first novel explores the aftermath of a teen suicide in the words of the dead girl's best friend. It seems that everyone, even her own parents, believes that Zoe helped her best friend, Aimee, commit suicide. Zoe is paralyzed by loneliness, guilt, and anger at everyone's suppression of the truth.

Rapp, Adam.  [2004].  Under the wolf, under the sun.  16 yr old Steve struggles to make sense of his mother’s terminal cancer and brother’s suicide.

Sones, Sonya.  Stop pretending:  what happened when my big sister went crazy. [1999].  A younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown.  

Staub, Wendy Corsi. [1995].  Help Me! Karen, a teenager, finds that she is suffering from a deep depression and seeks help.

Nonfiction

155.9 MYE Myers, Edward. [2004]. When will I stop Hurting?

155.9 POW Powell, Trevor J. [1996]. Stress Free Living.

362.28 TEE Rolett, Tamara L. [2000]. Teen Suicide.

616.85 ALM Sparks, Beatrice  [1996]  Almost lost: The True story of an anonymous teenager’s life on the streets.

616.85 AYE Ayer, Eleanor.  [2001].  Everything you need to know about depression.  Provides info about depression, its causes, and how it can be cured.

616.85 COB Cobain, Bev. [1998]. When nothing matters anymore: a Survival guide for depressed teens.

616.85 DEP [2008]. Depression.

616.85 HAR Harmon, Dan. [1998]. The Tortured mind: the many faces of manic depression.

616.85 KAR. Karp, David A. [1997].  Speaking of sadness.  Insight and interviews with fifty depressed men and women.

616.85 LEV  Levenkron, Steven. [1998].  Cutting:  Understanding and overcoming self-mutilation.   

616.85 ROS  Rosen, Laura E. [1996].  When someone you love is depressed:  How to help your loved one without losing yourself. 

616.85 STR Strong, Marilee. [1998].  A bright red scream: self mutilation and the language of pain.   Describes cutting and other forms of self-mutilation and the people who harm themselves because of overwhelming emotional pain often as a result of being abused as children.

616.85 KOP Koplewicz, Harold. [2002]. More than moody: Recognizing and treating adolescent depression.

616.85 WEA Weaver, Robyn. [1998]. Depression.

616.85 WUR Wurtzel, Elizabeth. [1994]. Prozac nation: Young and depressed in America.

616.89 SOM Sommers, Michael.  [2003].  Everything you need to know about bipolar disorder and manic-depressive illness. 

616.92  MCI  McIntosh, Kenneth.  [2008].  Youth with depression and anxiety:  Moods that overwhelm.

921 JAMI Jamison, Kay R.  [1995]. An unquiet mind.   International authority on manic-depression tells the story of her own battle with the illness which revealed itself through episodes of violence, bouts of madness and attempts of suicide.

921 SLAT Slater, Lauren. [1998].  Prozac Diary.  Lauren Slater discusses what is was like to live on the drug Prozac for ten years and explains the different emotional ups and downs she experienced while adjusting to the drug.

 921 STYR Styron, William.  [1992].  Darkness visible:  A Memoir of madness.  The author describes his experiences with depression and his resulting suicidal tendencies.

Websites

Teen Matters.  www.teen-matters.com/home.htm.  South Carolina Department of Mental Health.