The Depression Workbook: A Guide for Living with Depression and Manic Depression

This book is targeted to people with depression, but it is actually made for people with bipolar disorder. Also the concepts in here are extremely basic. If you have had one therapy session, you have probably already been told these things. I also feel that it is created for people with very mild symptoms. The suggestions in here for daily activities are not realistic for anyone with severe depression.

I've owned this book for several years and I refer back to it again and again. It not only contains tips for helping yourself out of a depression, but its checklists and forms actually encourage you to do the work you need to do. This book is also good for someone who is not depressed but just needs help with their lifestyle. Wonderful book. I think it will help anyone who actually uses it.

I have recently been diagnosed w/depression & my counselor recommended this book to me. It's great. I love the fact that it makes me take responsibility for my own healing. This book makes the reader an active participant and holds the reader accountable. The workbook exercises are great and extremely thought-provoking. They are helpful and have given me new insights. The text treats people with respect, is never "preachy", and doesn't trivialize the depression. Buy this book!

This is one of the "must have" books for anyone newly diagnosed with depression or bipolar disorder (manic-depression). It is invaluable in teaching both sufferer and supporter the symptoms and symptomatic behavior associated with these brain disorders.It is also one of the best books I have read for learning coping skills. Coping skills are needed while you are trying to find a treatment to end your suffering. Since that can take weeks, months or even years, coping skills are vital to keep you on track with your treatment efforts - and to help you during times of suicidal ideation.This book was monumental in helping me get through a severe depression that lasted nonstop for half-a-decade. Now that I have been symptom-free for the last five-years (due to medication), I am able to look back in hindsight to see what got me and my wife, Melissa, through that personal nightmare. This book was one of those lifesaving gifts which got us on track immediately after I was diagnosed. It is a book of which we are most grateful.I recommend this book to all my readers, and anyone suffering with depression or biplar disorder.

Excellent resource. Deeply probing the individual for every feeling and explaining triggers, possible complications, and offering gilded direction to being whole emotionally. No other book on the subject compares. Perfect. 5 Stars!Felecia Constance Rowe, Executive Director of The Institute for Advanced Mind Research