num_pages: 242
description: Almost everyone has had some interaction with depression. Whether its you a family member a friend or a partner who is affected depression has the potential to touch us all. Even so many of us dont know how to handle depression becoming part of our love life and it can quickly become the monster under the bed. From you have to love yourself first to dont stick it in the crazy to dead silence popular responses to the topic leave much to be desired. But youre not alone and you can have successful relationships and satisfying sex with depression. JoEllen Notte will help you understand how sexual function is affected by depression and what keeps us from effectively addressing it. Heavily informed by the authors research including surveys of over 1000 people and interviews with close to 200 this is the first book of its kind. With practical tips and real-life examples this is both a guidebook for people with depression and the people who love them as well as a reference tool for mental health professionals.
language: English
title: The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having
publisher: Thorntree Press