Fiction
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We Are All So Good at Smiling
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Call Number: Fantasy F MCBWhen hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression. -
Dark Matter of Mona Starr
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Call Number: Graphic Novels GN F GULFollows the experiences of depressed teen Mona Starr, who learns how to manage profound feelings of unworthiness through therapy, art, writing and the support of a few good friends. -
I Wish You All the Best
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Call Number: Realist Fiction F DEAThrown out of their parents' home and moving in with their estranged sister after coming out as nonbinary, Ben De Backer struggles to endure an anxiety disorder and the last half of senior year while bonding with a charismatic new friend. -
Home Home
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Call Number: Realistic Fiction F ALLAfter being hospitalized for depression, fourteen-year-old Kayla is sent from her home in Trinidad to live with her aunt in Canada, yearning to feel at home but feeling more adrift than ever. -
Six Goodbyes We Never Said
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Call Number: Realistic Fiction F GANTeens Naima Rodriguez, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, and Dew Brickman, who has social anxiety, bond over their mutual loss of both parents. -
Girl in Pieces
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Call Number: Realistic Fiction F GLAAs she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse. -
Turtles All the Way Down
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Call Number: Realistic Fiction F GREAza Holmes is a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. -
Darius the Great Is Not Okay
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Call Number: Realistic Fiction F KHOClinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life. -
The Art of Starving
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Call Number: Realistic Fiction F MILMatt avoids eating, thinking it gives him powers, while he tries to find out what bully Tariq did to drive away Matt's sister Maya. -
This Impossible Light
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Call Number: Realistic Fiction F MYEFifteen-year-old Ivy, feeling a lot of stress about her expanding body, her parents' divorce, and her best friend's distance, develops an eating disorder. -
All the Bright Places
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Call Number: Realistic Fiction F NIVTold in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, both teetering on the edge, it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another. -
Anger Is a Gift
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Call Number: Realistic Fiction F OSHSix years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals in their own school. When tensions hit a fever pitch and tragedy strikes, Moss must face a difficult choice: give in to fear and hate or realize that anger can actually be a gift. -
The Astonishing Color of After
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Call Number: Realistic Fiction F PANAfter her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird. -
Chaos Theory
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Call Number: Realistic Fiction F STOA senior at Windward Academy, Shelbi, who has a diagnosed mental illness, keeps to herself until she forms a connection with Andy Criddle, who is battling addiction, but the closer they get, the more the past threatens to pull them apart. -
The Cost of Knowing
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Call Number: Realistic Fiction MORSixteen-year-old Alex Rufus's curse of seeing the future distracts him from being and doing his best, but when he sees his little brother Isaiah's imminent death, he races against time, death, and circumstances to save him. A poignant metaphor for how trauma affects us. -
Who Put This Song On?
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Call Number: Realistic Fiction PARSeventeen-year-old Morgan is a black teen triumphantly figuring out her identity when her conservative town deems depression as a lack of faith, and blackness as something to be politely ignored. -
This Is My Brain in Love
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Call Number: Romance F GREIn a last ditch effort to save her family's bankrupt Chinese restaurant Jocelyn Yu hire's Will Domenici, a biracial (Nigerian/white) budding journalist who lives with acute anxiety. Sparks fly, and what started out as a summer internship becomes a full-blown romance—one that Jocelyn's father, Mr. Wu, stipulates can continue only if the pair fulfills the terms of a contract that include raising the restaurant's revenue by 30% before the end of the summer. With her happiness at stake, Jocelyn begins to suffer from her own mental health issues—ones that she's not sure her relationship can survive. -
Our Only Truth
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Call Number: Romance F YUStella lives with depression, and her goals for junior year are pretty much limited to surviving her classes, staying out of her parents' constant fights and staving off unwanted feelings enough to hang out with her friends Lin and Katie. Until Kevin. A quiet, wry senior who understands Stella and the lows she's going through like no one else. With him, she feels less lonely, listened to--and hopeful for the first time since ever. But to keep that feeling, Stella lets her grades go and her friendships slide. And soon she sees just how deep Kevin's own scars go.
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Some warning signs may help you determine if a loved one is at risk for suicide. If you or someone you know exhibits any of these, please seek help.
- Talking about wanting to die or kill themselves
- Looking for a way to kill themselves
- Talking about feeling hopeless or having no reason to live
- Talking about feeling trapped or in unbearable pain
- Talking about being a burden to others
- Increasing the use of alcohol or drugs
- Acting anxious or agitated; behaving recklessly
- Sleeping too little or too much
- Withdrawing or isolating themselves
- Showing rage or talking about seeking revenge
- Extreme mood swings
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Crisis Text LineAnonymously text with a trained counselor anytime by texting 741741.
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Mental Health Graphic Novels
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A Sloth's Guide to Mindfulness
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Call Number: Graphic Novels GN 158.13 MAKFollow a serene and smiley sloth through a series of light meditations and daily reflections, . . . from simple breathing exercises and guided visualizations to the benefits of chewing . . . slowly and staying present . . . -
Numb to This
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Call Number: Graphic Novels GN 362.88 NEEAuthor Kindra Neely recounts her journey to healing after surviving a mass shooting during her first year of college. -
Anxiety Is Really Strange
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Call Number: Graphic Novels GN 616.85 HAIIn graphic novel format look at anxiety, focusing on what is the difference between fear and excitement, how does the mind and body make emotions, and tips and strategies to relieve its symptoms. -
When Anxiety Attacks
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Call Number: Graphic Novels GN 616.85 KOSTerian Koscik shares her experiences of living with anxiety, and how going to a therapist taught her one of the most important things she could ever learn: there really is no "right" way to feel -
Guts
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Call Number: Graphic Novels GN 741.59 TELDeveloping a chronic upset stomach that she initially dismisses as a bug, young Raina discovers that her symptoms are related to her anxieties about school, food and changing friendships, in a story based on the Eisner Award-winning author's personal experience. -
Dark Matter of Mona Starr
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Call Number: Graphic Novels GN F GULFollows the experiences of depressed teen Mona Starr, who learns how to manage profound feelings of unworthiness through therapy, art, writing and the support of a few good friends.
Non-Fiction
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Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety
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Call Number: Health & Medicine 616.85 CASYvonne discusses her life, struggles with unhealthy foods, and the obsession with her weight. -
Life Inside My Mind
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Call Number: Health & Medicine 616.89 LIFThirty-one YA authors share their own struggles with mental illness, ranging from such topics as neurodiversity and addiction to OCD and PTSD. -
Where to Start
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Call Number: Health & Medicine 618.92 WHEThe nation's leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to helping those living with mental illness provides clear, honest, jargon-free information for anyone struggling emotionally and looking for help. -
Obsessed
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Call Number: Health & Medicine 921 BRIA brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side--in this powerful and inspiring memoir. -
Elena Vanishing
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Call Number: Health & Medicine 921 DUNThe story of Elena Dunkle, a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia. -
Sociopath
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Call Number: Psychology 921 GAGPatric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. She did her best to pretend she was like everyone else, but the constant pressure to conform to a society she knew rejected anyone like her was unbearable. In college, Patric finally confirmed what she'd long suspected. She was a sociopath. -
Everything a Band-Aid Can't Fix
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Call Number: Self Help 155.5 RUSThis book was written for YOU and all the curious young adults who are looking for an instruction manual on how to deal with the craziness of the teen years. It's a set of guidelines for understanding how to cope with feelings and experiences that aren't always easy to share. -
Mindfulness Workbook for Teens
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Call Number: Self Help 158.1 BIXThe Mindfulness Workbook for Teens is full of exercises, strategies, and meditations to help you practice mindfulness so you can cultivate peace and achieve balance in your life no matter what's going on. Learn practical methods for mindful test-taking, moving through strong emotions, navigating relationships with parents and peers, and much more. -
The Anxiety Toolkit for Teens
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Call Number: Self Help 616.85 ANXOffers tools, practices, and strategies to help you understand and manage anxiety, stress, and more. -
Hello, Cruel World
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Call Number: Self Help 616.85 BORTransgender author Kate Bornstein provides guidance for suicidal teenagers, relating personal emotional struggles; discussing bullies, identity, and freedom; and describing 101 activities you can use to cope and keep yourself alive. -
Anxiety Relief for Teens
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Call Number: Self Help 616.85 GALTeaches teenagers how CBT-based skills and mindfulness techniques can help manage anxiety and reverse negative patterns. -
Hooked
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Call Number: Self Help 616.85 FOSThis book is for anyone who struggles with addictive behaviour. In it, psychotherapist Tally Fosh sheds light on the true meaning of addiction and the subtle ways it can manifest itself without our awareness. She explores why we often seek external factors to change the way we feel internally, and provides practical tips and tools to help readers break any self-destructive cycle they may find themselves in using easy steps. Hooked breaks down the journey of addiction into four key pillars: discovery, types of addiction, lows and denial, and recovery. It includes practical tools, from expressive therapy to talking therapy, and case studies from real people.
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