Cañon City Public Library

A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.

Gran Thomas feels her world has turned upside down, that everything she loves is lost to her, and life is no longer worth the effort. Her great-grandson Tommy's gift of love changes her feelings.

When her father leaves for a job out of town, Mazzy is left at home to try to cope with her mother, who has been severely depressed since the death of Mazzy's baby sister.

Provides information about depression, discusses its causes, and describes how it can be cured.

Desscribes the warning signs of clinical depression, and explains how to offer comfort, maintain communications, deal with the mental health community, and handle suicide threats .

Olivia is on the road trip of a lifetime, with her trusty camera and her big sister, Ruth, by her side. Three years ago, before their family moved from California to Tennessee, Olivia and Ruth buried a time capsule on their favorite beach. Now they're taking an RV back across the country to uncover the memories they left behind. But Ruth's depression has been getting worse, so Olivia has created a plan to help her remember how life used to be: a makeshift...

Dr. James Gordon argues that depression is an indicator that people's lives are out of balance and presents a seven-step approach to ending depression and restoring a happy balance.

Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.

In the aftermath of a car accident that kills her boyfriend and throws her carefully planned future into complete upheaval, high school senior Wren retreats to the deep woods of Maine to live with the artist father she barely knows and meets a boy who threatens to pull her from her safe, hard-won exile.