Strategies to Overcome Depression: A Survivor Shares 150 Tips for Sufferers, Families, and Advocates

Annick Hivert-Carthew really DOES give GREAT ADVOCE for overcoming depression. What I found particularly helpful were the situational applications. Annick really knows what she's talking about. The reader gets timely, tested, accurate advice for each "piece" of depression in 'most any circumstance. A book to keep at hand until you have made it part of your life!

I was honored to review this book for a couple of daily newspapers -- and I found myself totally immersed while reading the author's courageous journey through her depression. Her beautifully rendered stories, laced with sound advice and documentation, are an inspiration to any person who is battling serious depression or even garden-variety "blues." This is an uplifting book -- sometimes humorous -- and it reveals the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel for sufferers and their families. I recommend it highly.

The author of this excellent, upbeat book "had a depression," as she so aptly terms it, rather than "was depressed." "Having something," means you can discard it, she posits. "Being something" is more difficult to shed. And conquer it, she did. At the urging of her doctor, who knew she was a writer, she has compiled the text she could not find herself - an action plan for others who have "a depression," and for their loved ones and champions who must understand the illness in order to help. This easy-to-read book is filled with survival tips and should be read by anyone who suffers from depression. As she states, the author is passing along the "fighting tools" she acquired in her own personal journey. A must-read book - to be re-read many times.