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Undoing Depression

Author: Richard O'Connor
Publication info: Souvenir Press
ISBN: 0285638025

Like heart disease depression is fuelled by complex, interrelated factors: genetic, environmental, biochemical. In this eminently sensible book Richard O'Connor considers another, often overlooked factor: our own habits.

Undoing Depression What therapy doesn't teach you and medication can't give you By Richard O'Connor Ph.D.

Full of practical advice, this constitutes a comprehensive self-help programme for what the author describes as the epidemic of depression. It guides the reader from “What we know about depression” to its culmination in a recovery programme based on twelve principles.

The author, who has personal experience of depression, believes that medication and psychotherapy are not enough; people need to question and change unhelpful habits and learn new skills for coping with emotions and thinking.

The impact of depression is examined in detail, with advice on understanding and improving experiences of work, marriage, divorce, the family and the community. For those caring for someone with depression there is a list, compiled by a depression support group, of what friends and family can best do to help.

Information on access to medication and treatment are addressed to an American audience; there may be less choice available on the NHS.

Added : 26 June 2009

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