Introduction
Part One:
Understanding Depression
1. What Is Depression?
2. All Depressions Are Not Alike
3. Understanding the Symptoms of Depression
4. Diagnosing Yourself & Monitoring Your
Recovery
5. What Causes Depression? -- Personal History
6. What Causes Depression? -- Current Life
Events
7. What Causes Depression? -- Biological
Factors
Part Two: What Can
I Do To Beat Depression?
8. The Course of Depression & Relapse
Prevention
9. Choices About Treatment
10. Healthy & Destructive Responses to Emotional
Pain
11. Can You Help Yourself?
12. Changing Your Negative Thinking
13. More Self-Help Approaches
14. Psychotherapy
& Other Professional Treatments
15. Medication for Depression
16. Are Medical Treatments the Only Answer to
Biological Depression?
17. Bipolar Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment
18. Depression Is a Family Affair
19. There Is Hope!
References
Index