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The first section is especially useful to new patients just learning to navigate the signs, treatments, and vocabulary of depression. Clearly written overviews of specific symptoms are coupled with space for you to write in your own thoughts on treatment, prognosis, and your ultimate goals. Checklists and daily planners help to identify both areas of difficulty and positive experiences; later in the book, you'll find charts for tracking medications, diet, and doctor visits.
A full section is devoted to the establishment and maintenance of a support group. Ideas range from open discussions with family members to seeking out volunteer work, and it's this section that may be the trickiest for the depressed to work through. Finding the strength to make new friends may seem impossible at first, but author Mary Ellen Copeland spreads plenty of warmth, encouragement, and personal experience among her directives. --Jill Lightner
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Endorsement of First Edition: "This book is a lifesaver. This is one of the 'must have' books for anyone newly diagnosed with depression or manic depression. It is invaluable in teaching both sufferer and supporter the symptoms and coping skills. This book was monumental in helping me get through a severe depression that lasted nonstop for half a decade. I recommend this book to all my readers, and to anyone suffering with depression or bipolar disorders."--Bob Olsen, author of the best-selling "Win the Battle: The 3-Step Lifesaving Formula to Conquer Depression and Bipolar Disorder"
The Depression Workbook is focused on how you can help yourself feel better if you have depression or manic depression (also know as bipolar disorder) and other troubling emotional or behavioral symptoms. Read the first page
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Author is a little out of touch/not really ill,
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This review is from: The Depression Workbook: A Guide for Living with Depression and Manic Depression (Paperback)
The author early on in the book says that her problems (she was diagnosed as Bipolar like myself) were found to be due to a thyroid problem, and that in the ten years since she's taken the thyroid medicine to correct the problem, she has not had another episode of mania or depression. She then goes on to write a book purporting to be an expert on mood disorders and how to help yourself. The reality of the situation is likely that she only knows how to manage her own life without a mental illness and knows what strategies (generic to all people even if not ill) help her to feel better and organize her life. She doesn't seem to think medications are necessary (something common among both the newly diagnosed and people without a true mood disorder), but acknowledges with much resistance that they have "some" value. She strongly implies (or seems to) that one has a weaker moral character for taking the medications. It's a self-help book, though, so I can understand why it has to push the idea that you can help yourself. As a basis for her expert knowledge in the book, she put together a survey of 120 people (75% bipolar, 25% depression-only) from which she draws examples to use and quote from. And after the first few pages, that's what at least 50% of the book is - quotes or symptoms taken from respondents to the survey. The people reporting the description of the symptoms are not scientific experts, and there not much scientific/medical input into the book. I did find value from the one section (maybe 1/2 a page) written by a doctor where I learned of a new medication which I was able to find more information on-line about (geodon). As a result of that one little piece of knowledge, I don't feel I wasted my (Money), but the other 149.5 pages I've read so far are hardly worth the paper their printed on.
4.0 out of 5 stars
It is helping,
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This review is from: The Depression Workbook: A Guide for Living with Depression and Manic Depression (Paperback)
On the recommendation of my spouse's therapist we purchased this book. I read the whole thing in one evening, but my spouse is reading it slowly.One of the biggest changes is hearing my spouse say "I have a goal now" or "I need to keep charts." This would never have happened without the book "telling" him to do it. After 3 years of dealing with the wrong diagnosis and medications it finally seems as if we are on the right track and there is some hope and light at the end of tunnel. I don't know if we will ever exit this long tunnel, but now at least I know my spouse wants to try and the book gives us logical steps to work in that direction.
4.0 out of 5 stars
It is helping,
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This review is from: The Depression Workbook: A Guide for Living with Depression and Manic Depression (Paperback)
On the recommendation of my spouse's therapist we purchased this book. I read the whole thing in one evening, but my spouse is reading it slowly.One of the biggest changes is hearing my spouse say "I have a goal now" or "I need to keep charts." This would never have happened without the book "telling" him to do it. After 3 years of dealing with the wrong diagnosis and medications it finally seems as if we are on the right track and there is some hope and light at the end of tunnel. I don't know if we will ever exit this long tunnel, but now at least I know my spouse wants to try and the book gives us logical steps to work in that direction.
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