 Understanding Depression: What We Know and What You Can Do About It
ISBN: 978-0-471-43030-8
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304 pages
May 2003
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Foreword.
Introduction.
PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSION.
1. The Experience of Depression.
2. The Experience of Mania: Bipolar Disorder.
3. Who Is at Risk for Depression?
4. Recognizing Depression in All Its Forms and Guises.
5. Stressful Events: When People Get Depressed.
PART TWO: UNRAVELING THE SECRETS.
6. What Do We Know About the Brain?
7. Genes and Depression: The Fateful Inheritance.
8. Hormones, Headaches, and Heart Attacks.
PART THREE: DEPRESSION AND MANIA AND DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF THE WHOLE PERSON.
9. Depression, Manic Depression, and Relationships.
10. Destructive Behavior.
11. Facing up to Suicide.
PART FOUR: TREATMENTS FOR DEPRESSION.
12. Getting Help for Depression.
13. Making the Diagnosis Is the First Treatment.
14. Medical Treatment.
15. The Different Kinds of Drugs.
16. Psychotherapy: Treating the Person.
17. ECT, Light, and Other Medical Treatments.
18. Alternative Treatments.
19. Hospitalization: A Guide for Patients and Families.
20. Getting Back to Normal.
21. Going Forward.
Appendix A: Insurance.
Appendix B: Helpful Organizations.
Appendix C: Helpful Books.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.
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