Understanding Depression: What We Know and What You Can Do About It: What We Know and What You Can Do About It 1st Edition by J. Raymond DePaulo Jr. (PDF)

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From a leading medical expert at Johns Hopkins, here is an up-to-the-minute, definitive guide to what s known about depression and how it can be treated. Around ten percent of North Americans suffer from depression at some point – and more than half haven t even sought help. Now, Dr. Raymond DePaulo, one of the world s foremost authorities on depression, provides a sensitive, thorough, and reassuring book for sufferers from depression and those who care about them. This practical guide for individuals with depression and their families – the only totally comprehensive book in the market – shows readers how to identify the problem, then directs them to the various forms of treatment, including medications, psychotherapy, support groups, and exercise. It is one of the few books to discuss in depth manic depression, the bipolar form of depression. Dr. DePaulo discusses both mainstream (the latest medications and talk therapies) and alternative paths and reveals the truth about the dangerous fallacies that abound about depression. Comprehensive, compassionate, and grounded in the very latest research into brain chemistry, psychology, and medications, this is a definitive, landmark roadmap to one of the most devastating – and common – mental illnesses.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I would love to know what this doctor thinks of the latest generation of antidepressants (Trintillex,etc). In all, a compassionate voice for those who struggle with depression, and lots of helpful suggestions as to what works and has been unproven though is pushed as ‘natural and effective’ products such as Saint John’s Wart and Sam-E.

⭐Dr. DePaulo covers the subject of depression and manic depression in a very straightforward way that is understandable and helpful for the layperson, while it covers all the available treatments and what is known about why they work. The examples from patients keep the text down to earth and makes the book read more like a novel than a dry textbook. I would definitely recommend this for anyone who is suffering from depression and for their families.

⭐Very comprehensive and informative. Not the most exciting book and kind of long winded.

⭐What you see is what you get, they say. Perhaps it’s more than that. Understanding that “causes” aren’t so readily ascribed is helpful as you try to assist the depressed person.

⭐I have not completed the book yet but am excited to get further along as the author engages you in the complexities and seriousness of this disease.

⭐The book sheds a lot of light on this growing problem and makes the person feel so not alone or the personal cause of the troubles

⭐A little too much of a medical description of depression and kind of hard to follow.

⭐If you come to this book, authored by a foremost expert in the research and treatment of depression, for a pill or therapy to cure you, you will be disappointed. There are no cures, but Dr. DePaulo manages to explain in lay terms many promising treatments both of the present and future. His confidence and command, but most of all his compassion in handling this material, will give you hope and yet leave you with the sense that the brain will always be mysterious and somewhat out of reach. As a scientist, that may not be his intent, but as a doctor treating individuals, he above all conveys authenticity and realism in a very kind manner.

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