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One Family's Battle with a Child's Depression
Carroll & Graf
March 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 0786717629
Hardcover
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Self-Help Relationships | Non-Fiction Biography
Oregon Senator Gordon Smith the �s son, Garrett, battled
learning disabilities and clinical depression for most of
his life. At the age of twenty-two, while attending the
University of Utah, this popular young man took his own
life. As parents, Smith and his wife Sharon, who had adopted
Garrett as a newborn, were heartbroken. And, as a senator,
Smith was forced to question whether he had the strength or
even the desire to carry on in politics. For the first time, Smith candidly retraces his son the �s
life leading up to his suicide. He chronicles the crippling
sadness he and his wife faced in the aftermath; and how,
with the help of faith and those around him, he not only
returned to politics, but became a fearless advocate of
suicide prevention. His moving speech on the Senate floor
upon the passage of his Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act,
which increases federal funding to combat the ever-growing
problem of youth suicide, brought a rare moment of
bipartisan support on the Senate floor and helped open a
long overdue national discussion. Remembering Garrett speaks from the heart to parents
who have experienced the same tragedy, or are fighting for a
child struggling with depression.
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