News > SANE introduction to new book on beating depression

Created: 2004-04-12 13:45:18

With an Introduction by Marjorie Wallace, founder and Chief Executive of SANE, Beat Depression and Reclaim Your Life is a radical new book that offers a practical, realistic lifeline to help sufferers overcome the worst aspects of the condition without the use of medication.

Author Alexandra Massey has lived with depression and beaten it under her own steam, and her analysis of the root causes and personal experience of depression will speak volumes to those who live with it on a daily basis.

Published for National Depression Week (19-26 April), Beat Depression and Reclaim Your Life is full of advice on often delicate subjects such as how to deal with your children when you are depressed, tackling shame, and ways to manage the deep-seated anger and grief that come out of confronting depression head-on without medication. It includes a 14-day work-plan that offers a step-by-step recovery you take at your own pace.

Commending the book, Marjorie Wallace says: “I believe there’s no single secret of how to beat depression that will work for everyone. Some people respond well to therapy, others to medication or a combination of both. Until we understand more about how the brain works there will always be an element of the unknown. We need to discover what may be happening and interact with the complex inner stresses, those profound emotional conflicts which drive and define our individual lives.”