Dealing With Teen Depression. books?????
Q.I'm looking for any good books on the treatment of depression. I realize their are many that describe the symptoms and how to recognize them, yet I'm more interested in getting rid of this illness, not hearing more about it. So if anyone has any suggestions on good books, or just some positive feedback on how to overcome this illness
A.The list is exceeds 110 books, and it's growing all the time. Certainly, not all the books are entirely about mood disorders, but as with many people in this global self-help community, they are dealing with more than one issue too. It's taken well over a year to update this list for various reasons: Lately it's been about trying to figure out how to export all these books from my Claris FileMaker Pro database. Thanks to a little help from Claris, we've finally figured it out. (God, it was easy, once I understood how.) It is our sincere hope that people dealing with the issues surrounding mood disorders, will be able to empower themselves through the information about these books. Several new books on manic depression also address the depression/dysthymic side of moodswing: K. Jamison has a new one any librarian or good book store would know the title. Also a great book, I can't remember the title (gee, go figure...) decribes several case studies and was an excellent read. I'll get back with it. Many depressed people are helped with cognitive therapy (AKA rational emotive therapy). The basic premise of this therapy is that our thinking drives our mood (rather than vice versa) and that by changing our thinking we can change our mood (which we usually think of as uncontrollable). That is so TRUE! I've struggled for years, reading self help books, going to workshops, gurus, exercise programs, etc, all trying to get rid of an insidious cyclical depression. After 18 months on various combinations of drugs, I'm FINALLY sensing what it might be like to not be depressed. I think that depression is a biochemical disease that actually keeps us from responding to the kind of positive-thinking attitude-changing theories out there. They may work for people that aren't depressed, but they never worked for me, or only worked marginally. With my most recent AD (Pamelor - nortriptylene), I've started to grasp what "a sense of well-being" is ( an experience I've had only rarely in my life). It's just not fair that depression keeps us from experiencing this. Depression is a disease that cripples the human spirit. Anyway, for those of you out there who are still struggling along with medications that have not worked, or have only worked partially, there still might be some hope that you could leave depression behind. I disagree completely on books regarding depression. They were my solace during some of my deepest moments of depression. The books that were particularly helpful were those relating the stories of other individuals, some famous, some not, who also suffered. They made me feel not so "alone" with my suffering and helped with coping skills.
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