Mental Health
Anxiety
These books about anxiety can be found at the Morse High School Library. For more books like these, search the library's online catalog. Use the following subject headings:
Anxiety
Anxiety-Fiction
Anxiety-Treatment
Anxiety disorders
Anxiety and Panic Disorders
Jennifer Lombardo
Provides information about anxiety and panic disorders, discussing different types, diagnosis, treatment, how to cope, and other related topics.
Genre: Non-Fiction
Call Number: 616.85 LOM
Coping with Social Media Anxiety
Jackson Nieuwland
Offers an introduction to the concept of social media anxiety, dispelling many widespread myths and replacing them with up-to-date facts, which helps readers identify whether they are experiencing social media anxiety, and offers them reliable strategies for dealing with it if they are.
Genre: Non-Fiction
Call Number: 152.4 NIE
Letting Go of Gravity
Meg Leder
Parker struggles to reconnect with her twin brother, Charlie, who's recovering from cancer, and to deal with her anxiety about her own future.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Call Number: FIC LEDER
Let's Call It a Doomsday
Katie Henry
Ellis Kimball, sixteen, whose anxiety disorder causes her to prepare for the imminent end of the world, meets Hannah, who claims to know when it will happen.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Call Number: FIC HENRY
Anger Is a Gift
Mark Oshiro
Moss Jeffries is many things—considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd. But sometimes Moss still wishes he could be someone else—someone without panic attacks, someone whose father was still alive, someone who hadn’t become a rallying point for a community because of one horrible night.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Call Number: FIC OSHIRO
10 Things I Can See From Here
Carrie Mac
Maeve, a sufferer of severe anxiety, moves in with her recovering alcoholic father and her very pregnant stepmother and falls for a girl who is not afraid of anything.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Call Number: FIC MAC
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green
Aza Holmes, a high school student with obsessive-compulsive disorder, becomes focused on searching for a fugitive billionaire.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Call Number: FIC GREEN
I Wish You All the Best
Mason Deaver
Thrown 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.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Call Number: FIC DEAVER
Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Elizabeth Vargas
Chronicles journalist Elizabeth Vargas' lifelong battle with anxiety, which led to alcohol dependence and, ultimately, recovery.
Genre: Memoir
Call Number: FIC VARGAS
Depression
These books about depression can be found at the Morse High School Library. For more books like these, search the library's online catalog. Use the following subject headings:
Depression, Mental
Depression (Psychology)
Manic-depressive illness
Mental health
Panic attacks
Panic disorders
Self-destructive behavior
Brave Face: A Memoir
Shaun David Hutchinson
At nineteen, Hutchinson was struggling to find the vocabulary to understand and accept who he was and how he fit into a community in which he couldn't see himself. The voice of depression told him that he would never be loved or wanted, while powerful and hurtful messages from society told him that being gay meant love and happiness weren't for him. Convinced that he couldn't keep going, that he had no future, Hutchinson followed through on trying to make that a reality -- an attempted suicide.
Genre: Memoir
Call Number: 616.8584 HUT
Everything You Need to Know About Suicide and Self-Harm
Erin Pack-Jordan
A book for teens about depression, suicide, and self-harm.
Genre: Non-Fiction
Call Number: 616.85 PAC
(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health
Kelly Jensen, editor
Presents an anthology of essays that illuminate such mental health topics as autism, bipolar disorder, body dysmorphia, depression, and healing.
Genre: Anthology
Call Number: 616.89 DON
Before I Let Go
Marieke Nijkamp
Returning to her small Alaska home town after her bipolar best friend's death, Corey uncovers chilling secrets about the townspeople and their treatment of Kyra prior to her drowning.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Call Number: FIC NIJKAMP
Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Adib Khorram
Clinically-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.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Call Number: FIC KHORRAM
The History of Jane Doe
Michael Belanger
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a teenage history buff looks back at their relationship and tries to understand what lead to the tragedy and to understand the signs of depression.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Call Number: FIC BELANGER
Madness
Zac Brewer
Released from an inpatient facility after treatment for a suicide attempt, Brooke gradually begins to see hope in her life and meets Derek, a fellow suicide survivor, but as she falls for him, she realizes that Derek may not be in the same mental space she is.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Call Number: FIC BREWER
100 Days of Cake
Shari Goldhagen
Molly suffers from depression, and when she finds out that the exotic fish store she works at is closing down, her whole life, which is already hanging on a thread, starts to crumble.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Call Number: FIC GOLDHAGEN
The Memory of Light
Francisco X. Stork
When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Call Number: FIC STORK
When We Collided
Emery Lord
Can seventeen-year-old Jonah save his family restaurant from ruin, his mother from her sadness, and his danger-seeking girlfriend Vivi from herself?
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Call Number: FIC LORD
Suicide
These books about suicide can be found at the Morse High School Library. For more books like these, search the library's online catalog. Use the following subject headings:
Suicidal behavior
Suicide
Suicide-Prevention