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Dysthymia and the Spectrum of Chronic Depressions: Review of recent changes in the understanding of chronic depressions. Discusses what the nature and classification of specified chronic depressive subtypes. 23 contributors, 10 U.S. DNLM: Depression, Mental.

Dealing with Depression: A Commonsense Guide to Mood Disorders: Covering both traditional and alternative approaches to treating depression, this guide outlines the many different types of depression including mood swings, clinical depression, and bipolar disorders. Each type of depression is explained fully and is accompanied by suggestions for the most appropriate treatments. While depression may be severe and disabling, it can be treated successfully-providing it is diagnosed and managed properly. Simple descriptions and a user-friendly layout make this guide accessible for those suffering from mood disorders, their families, and the health professionals who care for them.

Beating the Blues: New Approaches to Overcoming Dysthymia and Chronic Mild Depression: Mild depressions are so insidious that sufferers often don't seek help. They think, "that's just the way I am. There's really not much I can do about it." As Dr. Michael Thase and science writer Susan S. Lang reveal in this wonderful new book, the good news is they can do something about it. Persistent mild depression, which afflicts up to 35 million Americans, can be readily and permanently cured. Thase and Lang show how chronic mild depression can be relieved by learning strategies that help us to recognize negative and distorted thinking patterns that lead to a downward spiral of pessimism. They reveal that a combination of medication and therapy has been shown to be the most effective treatment for mild depression, with an impressive 85% of patients experiencing full relief. They discuss when you should seek help from a therapist and what kinds of therapy seem the most effective (therapies that focus on the here and now seem to work best); outline the safer new antidepressants that are helpful for both mild and severe depressions, detailing each drug's strength and weakness; and examine alternative therapies, including stress management (meditation, relaxation, massage, biofeedback), physical exercise, acupuncture, supplements, and other mind/body therapies. Finally, they provide in-depth discussions of mild depression in children, adolescents, college students, and elderly parents, as well as those with chronic stress. Throughout, the authors use boxed text and charts to make the key ideas immediately accessible and easy to use. Beating the Blues is an inspiring and empowering book, filled with the information and encouragement you need to turn your life around and begin to feel renewed pleasure and joy.
 

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When Nothing Matters Anymore: A Survival Guide for Depressed Teens: A guide to understanding and coping with depression, discussing the different types, how and why the condition begins, how it may be linked to substance abuse or suicide, and how to get help.

Written by Bev Cobain, RN, cousin of the late Nirvana lead singer, Kurt Cobain.

Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression: This is a unique collection of essays about depression that, in the spirit of William Styron's Darkness Visible, finds vivid expression for an elusive illness suffered by more than one in five Americans today. Unlike any other memoir of depression, however, Unholy Ghost includes many voices and depicts the most complete portrait of the illness. Lauren Slater eloquently describes her own perilous experience as a pregnant woman on antidepressant medication. Susanna Kaysen, writing for the first time about depression since Girl, Interrupted, criticizes herself and others for making too much of the illness. Larry McMurtry recounts the despair that descended after his quadruple bypass surgery. Meri Danquah describes the challenges of racism and depression. Ann Beattie sees melancholy as a consequence of her writing life. And Donald Hall lovingly remembers the "moody seesaw" of his relationship with his wife, Jane Kenyon.
 
The Bell Jar: The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.

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Up the Down Hill: Imagine waking up in a mental institution. Now, imagine that you are a woman who has a deep testimony of Jesus Christ. You have a wonderful family. You have a good job. You appear to be successful in every way. What would cause you to become so convinced that your life isn't worth living that you need to be hospitalized for your own protection?

Up the Down Hill is the story of one woman's journey to the valley of despair and back.

In Understanding Depression, Donald Klein and Paul Wender offer a definitive guide to depressive illness -- its causes, course, and symptoms. They clarify the difference between depression (which is a normal emotion) and biological depression (which is an illness), and include several self-rating tests with which readers can determine whether or not they should seek psychiatric evaluation to determine if they have a biological depressive illness. They describe the symptoms of biological depression, among them loss of energy, changes in eating habits, sleep disturbances, decreased sex drive, restlessness, poor concentration and indecisiveness, and increased use of intoxicants and drugs. And they paint a clear picture of how depressive illness can affect people's lives, using excerpts from patient histories to show the progress of each patient from the onset of depression to treatment and recovery. The authors also discuss the different types of treatment available, including antidepressant drugs, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychotherapy, and they examine the benefits and side effects of psychopharmacological drugs (including the new antidepressants, lithium, and the controversial Prozac), related disorders (such as panic attacks, atypical depression, seasonal affective disorder, and PMS), and how to get the right kind of help.
 

Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Depression: Cornell University, New York City. Reference on chronic depression, particularly dysthymic disorder, a syndrome of chronic, low grade depressive symptoms. Includes assessment, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy, epidemiologic studies, and the course of chronic depression. For psychiatrists & psychotherapists.
 

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Phoenix Rising: This self-help approach to regaining control of your life, uses a step-by-step process that's easy to follow -- even for those at the lowest point of depression. This handbook shows a way out, especially for those who suffer from affective disorders (depression and manic depression) and provides a better understanding to those who love and care for people with these disorders.

Depression In Women: Mood Disorders Associated With Reproductive Cyclicity: Pocket-sized overview of gender-specific mood disorders, including premenstrual syndromes, with emphasis on the treatment and prevention of these conditions. Color illustrations. For physicians and nurse practitioners.

Mind Fall: Inside Major Depression: A Story of Survival & A Medical Perspective: Compelling story of surviving Major Depression.

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When Going Through Hell ... Don't Stop: A Survivors Guide to Overcoming Depression and Clinical Anxiety: Describes the author's miraculous healing from a life-threatening depressive illness through the power of prayer.

Darkness Visible : A Memoir of Madness: In 1985 William Styron fell victim to a crippling and almost suicidal depression, the same illness that took the lives of Randall Jarrell, Primo Levi and Virginia Woolf. That Styron survived his descent into madness is something of a miracle. That he manages to convey its tortuous progression and his eventual recovery with such candor and precision makes Darkness Visible a rare feat of literature, a book that will arouse a shock of recognition even in those readers who have been spared the suffering it describes.

Major Depressive Disorder : The Latest Assessment and Treatment Strategies: Depression effects over 20 million people in the US at any given time. This condensed review of the diagnosis and treatment of depression is written in a jargon-free, easy-to-reference format. It describes the environmental and the biological causes of depression along with corresponding treatment strategies. Fifteen predictors of suicide are reviewed along with 6 steps to managing suicide risk. Learn about different psychotherapy treatments and what is known about the effectiveness of medications vs. psychotherapy.

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Holiday of Darkness: A Psychologist's Personal Journey Out of Depression.

Patient's Manual for CBASP: Consumer text on the Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy (CBASP). Manual provides patients with knowledge on the details of CBASP in the treatment process. Topics include definitions of depression, common problems, techniques, interpersonal discrimination exercise.

Feeling Good : The New Mood Therapy: The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs. In FEELING GOOD, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life. Now, in this updated edition, Dr. Burns adds an ALL-NEW CONSUMER'S GUIDE TO ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS as well as a new introduction to help answer your questions about the many options available for treating depression.

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Depression: Psychologist Jack Dominian shows how depression can be diagnosed and treated, taking into account the latest research into its social and psychological causes.

Exercising Your Way to Better Mental Health: Health and Fitness book which explores the link between physical fitness and mental well being. It provides a series of checklists and worksheets to increase your self-awareness, and gives specific exercise guidelines to help you improve your mental health. This book is intended for those individuals who are having troubles with low self-concept, depression, and stress/anxiety. However, it will be of equal interest to the reader who is not experiencing mood problems, but wishes to improve his or her overall level of wellness.

Breaking the Chain of Low Self-Esteem: An engaging, upbeat book that will empower you to face life with new courage and enthusiasm. Once you begin, you won't want to lay it down. Reading it will motivate you to alter self-defeating behaviors, challenge you to overcome your fears, teach you to value yourself, inspire you to change your thinking, and enable you to make better choices in relationships and in other areas of your life. With the insights contained here you may be able to save your present, ailing relationship or gain the awareness that it's not right for you.

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The Depression Workbook: A Guide for Living With Depression and Manic Depression: Consumer workbook presents latest research-based self-help strategies to relieve depression and address other mental health issues. Includes new information on managing symptoms.

Self-Coaching: How to Heal Anxiety and Depression: A Powerful New Program to Beat Anxiety and Depression. You can feel better, starting right now! Whether you're anxious or depressed, this innovative book will teach you how to change your way of thinking and improve your life. Using the revolutionary concept of Self-coaching, you'll follow simple steps that will help you overcome the thought patterns that lead to anxiety and depression. As you achieve a positive outlook, you'll learn how to maintain balance, clarity, and spontaneity each and every day at home, at work, and in all your relationships.

Self-Coaching will inspire, motivate, and liberate you. Dr. Luciani’s approach has been proven time and again by his patients. And now he can help you too!
 

Lift Your Mood Now: Simple Things You Can Do to Beat the Blues: To a depressed person, the prospect of reading a book or enacting its recommendations can be overwhelming. Author John Preston kept this in mind when he conceived this book. In Lift Your Mood Now, he offers chapters that can be read in five minutes or less, with techniques that are easily implemented. The book is divided into seven parts that cover understanding depression, stabilizing the brain, avoiding negative thinking, combating low self-esteem, managing intense emotions, reducing withdrawal and isolation, and being true to oneself.
 

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Youth Suicide: Depression and Loneliness

Helping Your Depressed Child: Helps parents recognize depression in children.

More Than Moody: Recognizing and Treating Adolescent Depression: In this groundbreaking book, Harold Koplewicz, M.D., uses his experience as a clinician and researcher to help parents distinguish between normal teenage angst and true depression, a serious psychological illness with serious long-term consequences.

Dr. Koplewicz's combination of prescriptive advice and compelling anecdotes show parents the warning signs, risk factors, and key behaviors to look for in their teenage sons and daughters. Furthermore, he illustrates for parents, health-care professionals, and young adults the broad range of treatment options, including the recent approval of SSRI anti-depressants for use in treating young people, as well as non-pharmaceutical approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy.

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