Cope Care Deal: Articles

Look here for tips for coping with everyday stress - and bigger problems, too.

Visit this area to learn about warning signs that a teen may need help and to locate mental health resources for yourself or a friend in need.

This area of the site contains important information about depression, schizophrenia, and other illnesses that can affect teens.

Firsthand Accounts of Mental Illness: Now Available Online!

Written by Teens for Teens

Click here for mental health book series for parents

The initiative that creates CopeCareDeal.org also produces books for teens to help them cope with mental illnesses. In addition to personal stories from teens, the books offer up-to-date information from experts on the illnesses and their treatment and tips for coping in everyday life. Available through Oxford University Press, current offerings include books on bipolar disorder, depression, social anxiety disorder, eating disorders, and schizophrenia. Upcoming in the series are obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse, and suicide.

Download Mind Race: A firsthand account of one teenager’s experience with bipolar disorder (Click the image or click here for the Spanish-language version/version en Español)	Download Monochrome Days: A firsthand account of one teenager’s experience with depression (Click the image or click here for the Spanish-language version/version en Español)
Download Next to Nothing: A firsthand account of one teenager’s experience with an eating disorder (Click the image or click here for the Spanish-language version/version en Español)	Download What You Must Think of Me: A firsthand account of one teenager’s experience with social anxiety disorder (Click the image)
Download Me, Myself and Them: A firsthand account of one young person's experience with schizophrenia (Click the image)	Download The Thought That Counts: A firsthand account of one young person’s experience with obsessive-compulsive disorder (Click the image)
Download Eight Stories Up: An adolescent chooses hope over suicide (Click the image)	Download Chasing the High: A firsthand account of one young person’s experience with substance abuse (Click the image)