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Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery

10 best books like Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery (Gail Griffith): The Depression Workbook: A Guide for Living with Depression and Manic Depression, On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations About Conquering Depression, Children: The Challenge, Fire in the Brain: Clinical Tales of Hallucination, Love, Sara, Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children, Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind, Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness, A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student, Stick Up for Yourself!: Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self-Esteem

The Depression Workbook: A Guide for Living with Depression and Manic Depression
AuthorMary Ellen Copeland
From the best-selling author, Mary Ellen Copeland, comes the Second Edition of The Depression Workbook. Learn to practice the latest research-based self-help strategies to relieve depression and address other mental health issues including how to:


Take responsibility for your...
On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations About Conquering Depression
AuthorKathy Cronkite
ISBN0385314264
"I was ashamed.  It was a confession of weakness.  For years, depression meant the crazy house.  As I look back at it, [my shame] just seems damned foolishness, which is one reason I talk about it now."
--Mike Wallace

"Toward the end I couldn't get up. I just physically couldn't."
--Kitty...
Children: The Challenge
AuthorRudolf Dreikurs
ISBN0452266556
"Children: The Challenge" gives the key to parents who seek to build trust and love in their families, and raise happier, healthier, and better behaved children. Based on a lifetime of experience with children--their problems, their delights, their challenges--Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, one of America's...
Fire in the Brain: Clinical Tales of Hallucination
AuthorRonald K. Siegel
ISBN0452269539
A beautiful pianist hears her music drowned out by the voice of God. A young woman calmly watches the gang rape of her girlfriend and herself. A shy schoolboy turns to his invisible best friend to wreak bloody vengeance. In Fire in the Brain, Ronald K. Siegel shows how even the sober brain can create the...
Love, Sara
AuthorMary Beth Lundgren
ISBN0805067973
"From the computer files of Sara J. Reichert:
My life, from the last day of summer vacation,
to almost spring of my Junior year.
No matter what you might have heard,
this is the real story."

Love, Sara is the story of two teenage best friends, Sara and Dulcie. Sara, the narrator,...
Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children
AuthorPaul Raeburn
ISBN0767914384
In the tradition of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, Acquainted with the Night is a powerful memoir of one man’s struggle to deal with the adolescent depression and bipolar disorder of his son and his daughter.

Seven years ago Paul Raeburn’s son, Alex, eleven, was admitted...
Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind
AuthorEdwin S. Shneidman
ISBN0195172736
Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind is a uniquely intensive psychological analysis of a suicidal mind. In this poignant scientific study, Edwin S. Shneidman, a founder of the field of suicidology, assembles an extraordinary cast of eight renowned experts to analyze the suicidal materials, including a ten-page...
Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness
AuthorLinda Joy Myers
ISBN1938314026
At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas to watch the train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be only an occasional and troubled visitor. Linda Joy Myers's compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story...
A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student
AuthorElizabeth Stone
ISBN1565123158
One morning, a box was delivered to Elizabeth Stone's door. It held ten years of personal diaries and a letter that began "Dear Elizabeth, You must be wondering why I left you my diaries in my will. After all, we have not seen each other in over twenty years . . ." What followed was a remarkable year in Elizabeth's...
Stick Up for Yourself!: Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self-Esteem
AuthorGershen Kaufman
ISBN1575420686
First published in 1990, this perennial best-seller has helped countless children build self-esteem and assertiveness skills.

Newly revised and updated, it’s the ultimate resource for any kid who’s ever been picked on at school, bossed around, blamed for things he or she didn’t...
Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia
AuthorPatrick Tracey
ISBN0553805258
Well . . . I am the author, so I'll simply say that this is the book I was born to write. And I'll finally exhale and give myself a pat on the book. Our family has been pulverized by schizophrenia, the most severe form of mental illness, which follows a hereditary line from Boston back to Ireland . . . two of my...
Me, Myself, and Them: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia
AuthorKurt Snyder
ISBN0195311221
During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he became preoccupied with the idea that cars...
Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill
AuthorMary Beth Pfeiffer
ISBN0786717459
Crazy in America shows how people suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, and other serious psychological illnesses are regularly incarcerated because alternative care is not available. Once behind bars, they are frequently punished again for behavior that is...
No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One
AuthorCarla Fine
ISBN0385485514
Suicide would appear to be the last taboo. Even incest is now discussed freely in the popular media, but the suicide of a loved one is still an act most people are unable to talk about--or even admit to their closest family and friends. This is just one of the many painful and paralyzing truths author Carla...
The Los Angeles Diaries: A Memoir
AuthorJames Brown
ISBN0060521511
A wrenching chronicle of loss and
reaffirmation from novelist James Brown Plagued by the suicides of both his siblings, heir to alcohol and drug abuse, divorce and economic ruin, James Brown lived a life clouded by addiction, broken promises and despair. In The Los Angeles Diaries he reveals his...
Wayne: An Abused Child's Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope
AuthorWayne Theodore
ISBN0936197455
In the autobiography, ‘Wayne’ by Wayne Theodore (2003), Wayne is a boy from Massachusetts who was abused mentally and physically by his father. The abuse was so bad that his father nearly killed Wayne when he was only 6 years old. Wayne’s mother did nothing to improve the situation, as she was abused...
November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide
AuthorGeorge Howe Colt
ISBN0743264479
Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds...
A Mood Apart: The Thinker's Guide to Emotion and Its Disorders
AuthorPeter C. Whybrow
"A compassionate exploration of depression and manic-depression."
-- Forecast


"The most thorough and wide-ranging discussion for lay readers about the interplay of the physical and emotional elements of depression and manic-depression... His presentation is illuminating,...
Raising Kids for True Greatness: Redefine Success for You and Your Child
AuthorTim Kimmel
ISBN0849909511
You want only the best for your kids. And you want them to be successful. Sure, there's nothing wrong with that. But what if there was something more? Could your definition of success be leaving out the most important part?

What about greatness? Where does it fit in? "If you aim your children at...
GIMP: When Life Deals You a Crappy Hand, You Can Fold -or You Can Play
AuthorMark Zupan
Mark Zupan was a college soccer star, out drinking one night with friends. Tired from the game and from a few too many beers, he decided to take a nap in the back of his best friend's pickup truck. Still asleep when the vehicle started and drove away, he was suddenly jolted awake as the truck crashed. Mark...
Ben Behind His Voices: One Family's Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope
AuthorRandye Kaye
ISBN1442210893
When readers first meet Ben, he is a sweet, intelligent, seemingly well-adjusted youngster. Fast forward to his teenage years, though, and Ben's life has spun out of control. Ben is swept along by an illness over which he has no control--one that results in runaway episodes, periods of homelessness,...
Toxic In-Laws: Loving Strategies for Protecting Your Marriage
AuthorSusan Forward
ISBN0000605078
I have been married for 6 years, and I wish that I had read this book 5 years and 11 months ago. If you have difficult in-laws, this is is an excellent book to help you. It gave me insight into the root of the problem, helped me acknowledge how I was contributing to the problem and gave me steps to work forward...
Real Life: Preparing for the 7 Most Challenging Days of Your Life
AuthorPhillip C. McGraw
ISBN0743264959
What if you could see around the corners of your life? Wouldn't it help to know what the most challenging days of your life would be like BEFORE they hit?

There are certain days in life that stand out because they are among the toughest that you or someone you love will experience. Your quality of...
Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail
AuthorMary E. Buser
ISBN1250077842
Mary Buser began her career at New York's Rikers Island as a social work intern brimming with ideas, ready to make a difference, and eager to help incarcerated women find a better path for themselves. Her initial experience working with mothers in the nursery and women in the Mental Observation Unit...
Perfect Chaos: A Daughter's Journey to Survive Bipolar, a Mother's Struggle to Save Her
AuthorLinea Johnson
ISBN0312581823
A dual memoir of a mother's and daughter's triumph over mental illness

The Johnsons—mother, father, and two daughters—were a loving, and close Seattle family. Then the younger daughter Linea started experiencing crippling bouts of suicidal depression. Multiple trips to the psych...
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