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TITLE: Anxiety Relief for Teens: Essential CBT Skills and Mindfulness Practices to Overcome Anxiety and Stress
AUTHOR: Regine Galanti CALL NUMBER: 616.85 Gal SUMMARY: Getting good grades, keeping up with social media, maintaining friendships... you have a lot on your plate and it's more difficult when you add anxiety to the mix. You may even be avoiding situations, events, or people that could trigger your anxiety. So, how do you stop yourself from missing out on life? With Anxiety Relief for Teens, Dr. Regine Galanti teaches you how CBT-based skills and mindfulness techniques can help you manage your anxiety and reverse negative patterns. Through simple and effective exercises that help you change your thoughts, behaviors, and physical reactions, this helpful guide gives you the tools you need to navigate all of life's challenges. |
TITLE: Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles
AUTHOR: Edited by Jessica Burkhart WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 616.89 Don SUMMARY: Thirty-one YA authors share their own struggles with mental illness, ranging from such topics as neurodiversity and addiction to OCD and PTSD. |
TITLE: (Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health
AUTHOR: Edited by Kelly Jensen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 616.89 Don SUMMARY: An anthology of essays and illustrations that illuminate mental health topics in a straightforward way. |
TITLE: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
AUTHOR: Roxane Gay WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Gay SUMMARY: The author reflects on her emotional and psychological struggles to explore women's anxieties over consumption, appearance, and health. |
TITLE: Heart Berries
AUTHOR: Terese Marie Mailhot WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Mai SUMMARY: A memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder, Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. |
TITLE: Guts
AUTHOR: Raina Telgemeier WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tel - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: In graphic novel form, Raina Telegmeier relates her struggles with stress and anxiety as a child. |
TITLE: I Wish You All the Best
AUTHOR: Mason Deaver WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Dea - NOVELS SUMMARY: When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as non-binary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist, and try to keep a low profile in a new school. But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. As Ben and Nathan's friendship grows, their feelings begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier, new life. |
TITLE: Turtles All the Way Down
AUTHOR: John Green WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gre - NOVELS SUMMARY: It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. |
TITLE: The Unlikely Hero of Room 13 B
AUTHOR: Teresa Toten WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tot - NOVELS SUMMARY: Adam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love. |
TITLE: It's Kind of a Funny Story
AUTHOR: Ned Vizzini WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Viz - NOVELS SUMMARY: A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital. |
TITLE: Fat Kid Rules the World
AUTHOR: K. L. Going WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Goi - NOVELS SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band. |
TITLE: I Was Here
AUTHOR: Gayle Forman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F For - MYSTERY SUMMARY: In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries. |
TITLE: All the Bright Places
AUTHOR: Jennifer Niven WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Niv - NOVELS SUMMARY: Told 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. |
TITLE: This Song Will Save Your Life
AUTHOR: Leila Sales WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sal - NOVELS SUMMARY: Nearly a year after a failed suicide attempt, sixteen-year-old Elise discovers that she has the passion, and the talent, to be a disc jockey. |
TITLE: Skim
AUTHOR: Words by Mariko Tamaki ; drawings by Jillian Tamaki WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tam - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Wiccan goth teen Kimberly Keiko Cameron sinks into a growing depression after her classmate's ex-boyfriend kills himself, sparking a school revolution that forces all the students to redefine themselves. |
TITLE: Girl, Interrupted
AUTHOR: Susanna Kaysen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 616.8 Kay SUMMARY: The author describes her two-year stay at a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele and for its progressive methods of treatment. |