Life Happens

Offers advice on how to cope with such feelings as sadness, anger, and anxiety related to various problems faced by many teenagers.

Kathy McCoy, Ph.D., is an award-winning author of eleven books, a psychotherapist, and Coordinator of the Clinical Ph.D. Program at the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles. A former editor for 'Teen, Dr. McCoy has written hundreds of articles for such publications as Redbook, Readers' Digest, The New York Times, Family Circle, Glamour, and Ladies Home Journal. An online expert specializing in adolescent psychology, she has made numerous appearances on "The Today Show," "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Hour Magazine," "Sally Jessy Raphael," and "Home and Family."

Acknowledgments
What Am I Feeling? Why Do I Feel So Bad?	p. 3
What Does It Mean to Be Depressed?	p. 11
What's Happening in My Life to Make Me Feel So Bad?	p. 17
I've Loved and Lost (and Other Hazards of Love Relationships)	p. 29
I Feel Like a Failure	p. 45
My Family Is Changing ... and My Life Is Falling Apart	p. 55
I'm Having a Sexuality-Related Crisis - Date Rape, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Pregnancy - and I Don't Know What to Do!	p. 68
I'm Gay/Lesbian and ...	p. 85
I'm Totally Stressed Out!	p. 102
I Have an Alcoholic Parent	p. 126
It Hurts to Be Different	p. 137
Someone I Love Has Died ... and I Don't Think I'll Ever Be Happy Again	p. 153
I Feel Awful and I Still Don't Know Why	p. 172
Getting Professional Help	p. 181
I Have a Friend Who ...	p. 194
You're Not Crazy ... You're Normal!	p. 201
Index	p. 207
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