If you suffer from depression you are not alone - it affects 15.5
million in the US, and more than 3 million in the UK - and, you are
much stronger than you think. This best-selling book, written by
a leading consultant psychiatrist, explains that people with
depression do battle with pressures and stresses that other people
would run away from, until their bodies can take no more. In this
book, depression is placed authoritatively as a physical illness,
from which recovery is possible.
Dr Cantopher provides a comprehensive, accessible overview of
depressive illness, guiding the reader through the nature of
depression, its history, symptoms, causes and treatments, as well
as myths along the way. Warm and supportive, this new edition,
which also includes the latest on medications, stresses that
sufferers should not blame themselves, but can take hope from the
fact that there is meaning in their illness, and that getting
better is a real option. Generously supplied with illuminating
anecdotes and insights, it has specific advice on how to read the
book if you are currently unwell, as well as valuable information
for carers, medical professionals, or anyone interested in this
destructive illness which is set to become the second biggest
health burden in the world after heart disease.

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