Depression

A Plan for Recovery
Getting Your Life Back
by Jesse H. Wright, M.D., Ph.D., Monica Ramirez Basco, Ph.D.
This initial effort to solve a few problems is just the beginning of an overall plan for feeling better and getting your life back on track. In the next chapter you will start to build your Personal Plan for Recovery by measuring your symptoms

The Five Keys to Recovery from Depression
Getting Your Life Back
by Jesse H. Wright, M.D., Ph.D., Monica Ramirez Basco, Ph.D.
Although each person's personal story is unique, there are some common themes that thread their way through the lives of most people who become depressed. The Five Keys are directed at these common clusters of problems.

Getting Started
Getting Your Life Back
by Jesse H. Wright, M.D., Ph.D., Monica Ramirez Basco, Ph.D.
When you've been feeling down for a while, it's easy to get discouraged. You can begin to doubt that life will ever get easier, that the pain will cease, that the frustration will ever stop.

Preface
The Antidepressant Solution
by Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.
As I wrote this book, doctors and the public experienced an upheaval in their view of the safety of today's popular antidepressants because the FDA issued warnings that have been startling to many: Antidepressants may make patients suicidal.

The Dog and I
On the Edge of Darkness : America's Most Celebrated Actors, Journalists and Politicians Chronicle Their Most Arduous Journey
by Kathy Cronkite
In her brilliant new work, Kathy Cronkite gives voice to dozens of celebrated professionals who have endured-and conquered-the hopelessness of chronic depression. Most of all, this courageous book brings a ray of hope to the 24 million Americans who live

Seeing Anxiety and Depression: Brain SPECT Imaging
Healing Anxiety And Depression
by Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Lisa C. Routh, M.D.
Healing Anxiety and Depression reveals the major anxiety and depression centers of the brain; offers guidelines and diagnostic tools to determine the specific type of anxiety and depression; and provides a comprehensive program for treating each type.

Reader's Guide
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your reading of Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind. We hope they will expand your understanding of this extraordinary and disturbing story of a singularly

Into the Sun
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
I was standing with my head back, one pigtail caught between my teeth, listening to the jet overhead. The noise was loud, unusually so, which meant that it was close. My elementary school was near Andrews Air Force Base, just outside Washington

The Irritable Male Syndrome: What Is It, and Is It Real?
The Irritable Male Syndrome: Managing the Four Key Causes of Depression and Aggression
by Jed Diamond
Q: What do you call a man who is always tired, miserable, and irritable? A: Normal. Q: How can you tell if a man has Irritable Male Syndrome? A: You ask him to pass the salt, and he yells, 'Take, take, take-that's all you ever do!'

Emotion Medicine
The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy
by David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D.
Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think. -Henri Poincaré, Of Science and Hypotheses. Every life is unique ... and every life is difficult.

The Silent Epidemic Among Black Men
Standing In the Shadows: Understanding and Overcoming Depression in Black Men
by John Head
Suppose black men were suffering through an epidemic. What if the disease struck as many as 20 percent of all African American men during their lives, and what if 15 percent of those with the most severe strain of the illness died?

Introduction
The Truth About Depression: Choices for Healing
by Charles L. Whitfield, M.D.
Throughout history we have looked for the cause of depression and other mental illness, and we still don't know it. The two major theories have long been and remain: nature (genes, biology) versus nurture (environment, family).

Depression: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
by Joseph M. Carver, Ph.D.
Depression is perhaps the most common of all mental health problems, currently felt to affect one in every four adults to some degree. Depression is a problem with mood/feeling in which the mood is described as sad, feeling down in the dumps, being blue

Beginning the Journey
When a Parent is Depressed: How to Protect Your Children from the Effects of Depression in the Family
by William R. Beardslee, M.D.
Breaking the silence as a family represents a commitment to doing things differently. In this chapter, I want to share with you the pathway to better family health we most often observe, and which we recommend.

Depression: Introduction And Symptoms
by Rethink
Everyone experiences variations in mood, blues that come and go, disappointments, the normal grief that accompanies the loss of someone you love. But a severe or prolonged depression that interferes with the ability to function, feel pleasure, or maintain

Seeing her like this is really stealing my joy
by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D
My mom has suffered from depression for years. I am 37 years old and through the years, all her happiness has seemed to come from me and my family. I am happily married with three children. She is a wonderful grandma to my children.

Self-Care Program for People With Bipolar or Unipolar Mood Disorders
by Jan Maizler, MSW, LCSW
Mood disorders like depression or manic depressive illness affect as much as 8 per cent of the world s population and account for billions of dollars worth of lost wages, salaries, and costs of treatment. No one knows the exact amounts, but the economic

Depression As A Result Of An Abortion
by Loren Parks
One of the most common causes of long-standing depression is guilt from an abortion. I know. You think you're over it. Not so, in many cases. Here's why. Whenever there is an emotional experience, our subconscious minds get programmed.

Depression: Its Causes and What You Can Do About It
by Loren Parks
Of all the mental health maladies, some depressions and phobias are the easiest to cure or at least make them so they are no longer a serious problem. It takes only a matter of seconds in some cases such as guilt following an abortion or other death

Do You Get Depressed?

Do you get depressed easily? If you do, why don't you ask yourself, not why are you depressed, but how are you depressed. Now, don't look at me like I'm crazy. I just happen to think it's interesting to know how a person gets depressed.