Stress and Depression

Description: The teenage years can be challenging, and its normal for young people to feel sad sometimes. But when those feelings dont go away, the problem may be depression. This illness affects mood, thoughts, and behavior and can cause difficulties with eating, sleep, and schoolwork. Depression can have many causesfamily problems, bullying, or even the stresses of everyday life. Learn the symptoms of depression and find out how to get help. Depression is treatable, and most people who get treatment feel better and enjoy life again.

Review Quotes: Series Review: Emotional Health Issues "Answers to questions such as "What are drugs?" and "What is abuse?" as well as clear language and explanations make this series suitable for fact-finding missions, but the abundant graphics and case studies are likely to draw in browsers as well. Throughout, unfamiliar vocabulary is highlighted in bold and explained in context and in the glossary. Concise explanations of depression's symptoms, self-injurious behaviors, and forms of emotional abuse, for example, will help build students' health literacy...Getting help is the key message, along with taking control by creating personal space, keeping a diary, and thinking through choices. Fact boxes and case study sidebars add information. Further-reading suggestions of novels, diaries, and memoirs will create both literary and personal connections to the topics." --School Library Journal