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A comprehensive guide to how family members and friends can help someone who has depression. Mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder are biologic conditions of the mind and body that affect our everyday functioning, thoughts, feelings, and actions. Often devastating...

This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has...

A fascinating, "rich, and generous" (Financial Times) look at the treatment of depression by an award-winning science writer that blends popular science, narrative history, and memoir. Is depression a persistent low mood, or is it a range...

When you're in the midst of terrible depression, the days and weeks can feel like an eternity. This book is for those who are in the long night of depression. It does not promise healing or deliverance; it is not a guide to praying away the depression. It is simply an attempt to sit next to you...

In this no-nonsense guide for men, psychologist Jonas Horwitz presents straightforward, jargon-free strategies to help you identify and overcome depression, once and for all.   The damned thing about severe depression is that it takes over your...

"A thorough, up-to-date, and upbeat introduction to current scientific thinking about mood disorders and their treatment. An important resource for patients and their families--and for anyone curious about progress in psychiatric research."―Peter D. Kramer, Listening to Prozac

Self-care is a powerful, evidence-based medicine for the mind. Mental health is the driving force behind every decision we make--how we live, work, and love. Many of us suffer from depression and anxiety, which impede our choices and quality of life, and despite the...

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost...

A concise, practical guide to managing mood disorders for anyone suffering from these debilitating conditions. As a physician who personally suffers from depression, Susan J. Noonan draws on her own expertise and empathy to create a guide for people who suffer from the disease....

At the age of twenty-seven, married, living in New York, and working in book design, Mary Cregan gives birth to her first child, a daughter she names Anna. But it's apparent that something is terribly wrong, and two days later, Anna dies--plunging Cregan into suicidal despair. Decades...

* Nominated for 2023 Eisner Awards in the Best Graphic Memoir and Best Writer/Artist categories* Nominated for the 2023 Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award* Included in Forbes' "The Best Graphic Novels of 2022" list"Thorogood elevates the dark material with her expressive use of the comics...

This darkly funny memoir from "one of the next great stars in comedy" (Mike Birbiglia) doesn't offer help overcoming depression--just much-needed comfort, company, and tips for life inside the fog. "No one is able to synthesize the Venn diagram of depression and hilariousness...

An honest and deeply moving debut memoir about a young woman's battle with depression and how her dog saved her life A New York Times Bestseller "Dog Medicine simply has to be your next must-read." --Cheryl Strayed  At twenty-two...

One of Today's Ten Best Inspirational Books, 2020 By the creator and host of the acclaimed mental health podcast Depresh Mode with John Moe "[A] path to deeper understanding and openness, by way of laughter in the dark" ―The New York Times Book Review

A bracing and fresh look at a lifelong struggle with depression and mental illness Plagued by depression her entire life, it wasn't until her early fifties that writer and book critic Bethanne Patrick, advocating for her own care, received a medical diagnosis that would set her...