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Table of Contents:

Books for Young Adults about Mental Illness and Related Issues......................................................................2 Films for Young Adults about Mental Illness and Related Issues.......................................................................3 Books for Young Adults who have Lost a Friend of Loved One to Suicide........................................................3 Books for Young Adults on Cutting and Self-Harm..............................................................................................3 Films for Young Adults about Suicide in the LGBTQ Community.......................................................................4 Books for Young Lesbians.......................................................................................................................................4 Films for Young Lesbians..........................................................................................................................................7 Books for Young Gay Men.......................................................................................................................................7 Films for Young Gay Men........................................................................................................................................11 Books for Young Bisexual People...........................................................................................................................11 Films for Young Bisexual People............................................................................................................................12 Books for Young Transgender People ..................................................................................................................12 Films for Young Transgender People....................................................................................................................13 Books for Young People Questioning their Sexuality.........................................................................................14 Books for Young Genderqueer, Gender Variant and Gender Non-Conforming People...............................15 Books for Everyone in the Community.................................................................................................................15 Films for Everyone in the Community..................................................................................................................17 Books with Vital Information and Answers to Tough Questions......................................................................18 Films with Vital Information and Answers to Tough Questions........................................................................18 Organizations with Additional Resources.............................................................................................................19

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Books for Young Adults about Mental Illness and Related Issues

Intense Minds by Tracy Anglada (2006) Next to Nothing: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with an Eating Disorder by Carrie Arnold with Timothy Walsh (2007) The Bipolar Workbook by Monica Ramirez Basco (2005) You Do That Too? by Jose Arturo Benson (2000) ? deals with living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder The Storm in My Brain ? Kids and Mood Disorders (Bipolar Disorder and Depression) by The Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (2003) When Nothing Matters: A Survival Guide for Depressed Teens by Bev Cobain (1998) Recovering from Depression: A Workbook for Teens by Mary Ellen Copeland, MS and Stuart Copans, MD (2002) A Bird's-Eye View of Life with ADD and ADHD: Advice from Young Survivors by Chris Zeigler Dendy, MS and Alex Zeigler (2003) Bipolar Disorder for Dummies by Candida Fink, MD (2005) What You Must Think of Me: A Firsthand Account of one Teenager's Experience with Social Anxiety Disorder by Emily Ford with Michael Liebowitz and Linda Wasmer Andrews (2007) Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser (1999) ? deals with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Depression: Challenge the Beast within Yourself and Win--I Did. Here's My Story by Cait Irwin (1998) Monochrome Days: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Depression by Cait Irwin with Dwight Evans, MD and Linda Wasmer Andrews (2007) Mind Race: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Bipolar Disorder by Patrick E. Jamieson, PhD with Moira A. Rynn, MD (2006) Talking Back to OCD by John S. March, MD and Christine M. Benton (2007) The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know by David J. Miklowitz, PhD (2002) Clinical Depression and Bipolar Illness: Frequently Asked Questions, a Handbook for Teens by Sallie P. Mink, RN, BS (2006) Your Life is Not a Label by Jerry Newport and Ron Bass (2001) ? for highly functioning people with Autism and Asperger Syndrome The Best of Brakes: An Activity Book for Kits with ADD by Patricia O. Quinn, MD and Judith M. Stern, MA (2000) Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D by Lizzie Simon (2002) ? deals with Bipolar Disorder Everything You Need to Know about Bipolar Disorder and Manic Depressive Illness by Michael A. Sommers (2002)

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Stop Pretending by Sonya Sones (2001) ? deals with Bipolar Disorder Behind Happy Faces: Taking Charge of Your Mental Health ? A Guide for Young Adults by Ross Szabo and Melanie Hall (2007)

Films for Young Adults about Mental Illness and Related Issues

Day for Night: Recognizing Teenage Depression (1996) 28 minutes, Not Rated Depression on The Edge (1997) 30 minutes, Not Rated In Our Own Words: Teens with Bipolar Disorder (2001) 25 minutes, Not Rated The Truth about Suicide: Real Stories of Depression in College, 27 minutes, Not Rated

Books for Young Adults Who Have Lost a Friend or Loved One to Suicide

After Suicide Loss: Coping With Your Grief by Bob Baugher, PhD and Jack Jordan, PhD (2002) Suicide Survivors' Handbook by Trudy Carlson (2000) After by Francis Chalifour (2005) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Steven Chbosky (1999) Dying to Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families after a Suicide by Beverly Cobain and Jean Larch (2006) After a Suicide: Young People Speak Up by Susan Kuklin (1994) Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son by Leroy Aarons (1995) [also see the film, Prayers for Bobby, listed below] Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide by Christopher Lukas and Henry Seiden (2007) Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss by Michael F. Meyers, MD and Carla Fine (2006) Survivors of Suicide by Rita Robinson (2001) Healing after the Suicide of a Relative by Ann Smolin (1998) Jerome by William Taylor (1999)

Books for Young Adults on Cutting and Self-Harm

The Scarred Soul: Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violence by Tracy Alderman (1997)

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Beyond the Razor's Edge by Sarah J. Brecht and Judy Redheffer (2005) Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-injurers by Karen Conterio, Wendy Lader, and Jennifer Kingston Bloom (1999); also available in Spanish (2008): Da?o Corporal: El Innovador Programa Tratamiento para quienes se Autolesionan Helping Teens Who Cut by Michael Hollander (2008) Cut by Patricia McCormick (2000) Dancing in the Rain: The Final Cut by Tara L. Nicole (2006) Bait by Alex Sanchez (2009) Go Ask Ogre: Letters from a Deathrock Cutter by Jolene Siana (2005) Stopping the Pain by Lawrence E. Shapiro (2008) Healing the Hurt Within: Understand Self-Injury and Self-Harm, and Heal the Emotional Wounds by Jan Sutton (2005) Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light: A Memoir of Cutting, Healing, and Hope by Vanessa Vega (2007) Treating Self-injury: A Practical Guide by Barent W. Walsh, PhD (2005) The Cutting Edge: Clinging to God in the Face of Selfharm by Jess Wilson (2008)

Films for Young Adults About Suicide in the LGBTQ Community

Jim in Bold (2003) 78 minutes, Not Rated Prayers for Bobby (2009) 90 minutes, Not Rated ***The Trevor Project honored Lifetime Networks and Sigourney Weaver for her film at its annual Los Angeles Marquis Fundraiser Cracked Xmas--held every year in December*** Trevor (1994) 18 minutes, Not Rated ***The film whose creation lead to the founding of The Trevor Project in 1998***

Books for Young Lesbians

Girl from Mars by Tamara Bach (2008) Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2006) Gravel Queen by Tea Benduhn (2003) Girl Goddess #9 by Francesca Lia Block (1998) Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock (2009)

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