With the additional responsibilities and challenges of college, life may seem overwhelming. Feeling overwhelmed coupled with feelings of sadness, grief, and loss may lead to the experience of depression.
Untreated depression is one of the major causes of suicidal thoughts and feelings.
This self-instructional guide provides resources you can use to help you overcome some of these feelings. This video explores the incidence of depression among women, its possible causes, and treatment options. This program follows the lives of 4 adults suffering from depression, the most common mental illness in our society. They discuss their fears and emotional pain as well as thoughts of suicide. This tape shows how to incorporate into your life the strategies that the author and others have successfully used to keep their own depressive episodes at bay.