Understanding Depression
Subtitle: What We Know and What You Can Do About It
Publisher: Wiley
Published: February 1, 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780471395522
First sentence: What is it like to be depressed?
Table of contents: title: The experience of depression; title: The experience of mania : bipolar disorder; title: Who is at risk for depression?; title: Recognizing depression in all its forms and guises; title: Stressful events : when people get depressed; title: What do we know about the brain?; title: Genes and depression : the fateful inheritance; title: Hormones, headaches, and heart attacks; title: Depression, manic depression, and relationships; title: Destructive behavior; title: Facing up to suicide; title: Getting help for depression; title: Making the diagnosis is the first treatment; title: Medical treatment; title: The different kinds of drugs; title: Psychotherapy : treating the person; title: ECT, light, and other medical treatments; title: Alternative treatments; title: Hospitalization : a guide for patients and families; title: Getting back to normal; title: Going forward