Review: Helped me understand a lot of things...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2014
A cousin of mine, someone I was very close to when we were kids, has been recently diagnosed with severe anxiety and depression. This was a big shock to the family, but perhaps explains why her career never really took off after finishing college.So, I wanted to learn more about anxiety and depression, and this book was recommended to me by a colleague, along with another book on anxiety disorders by the same writer.Writer John McQuilkin rightly expects his readers to have no prior knowledge about depression or any mental health condition. He fully understands that any person reading this book is anxious and worried about himself/herself or about someone, a relative or a friend, that he or she is very close to and cares deeply about.So, John knows that his readers are perhaps in a delicate situation and that's why treads very softly, very delicately opens up the topic, explaining in a very clear, concise manner, leaving no room for confusion, and yet in a very friendly way, everything a layperson like me should know about depression.John explains why depression is such a serious disease, the various types of depression, how is depression caused, its various symptoms. He discusses at length the treatments for depression, and the various ways of coping with this incredibly harmful disease.This book was extremely useful to me and helped me understand my cousin a lot better. Definitely deserving of 5 stars.