Will's Choice A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery

Name: Will's Choice A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery
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ISBN: 9780060598662

ISBN-10: 0060598662

ISBN-13: 9780060598662

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Authors: Gail Griffith

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On March 11, 2001, seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication, an event that would forever change his life and the lives of his family. In Will's Choice, his mother, Gail Griffith, tells the story of her family's struggle to renew Will's interest in life and to regain their equilibrium in the aftermath. Griffith intersperses her own finely wrought prose with dozens of letters and journal entries from family and friends, including many from Will himself. A memoir with a social conscience, Will's Choice lays bare the social and political challenges that American families face in combating this most mysterious and stigmatized of illnesses. In Gail…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Foreword



Prologue



The Bears Downstairs



Pulled from the Wreckage



Tunnel Vision



Like Mother, Like Son



Lethal Secrets



Broken Hearts, Deep Wounds



Lost Horizon Ranch



California Rocket Fuel



Calamity and Clarity



Time, Sweet Time


Epilogue: In Will's Own Words


Megan's Biography


Acknowledgments


Organizational Resources for Families of Depressed Teens


Suggested Reading and References


Endnotes