The Book of Feeling Blue: Understand and Manage Depression
Author:   Gwendoline Smith
Publisher:   Atlantic Books
Edition:   Main
ISBN:  

9781838958152


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   05 January 2023
Format:   Paperback
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The Book of Feeling Blue: Understand and Manage Depression


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Discover how best to manage mental health issues - specifically depression - in bestselling psychologist Gwendoline Smith's evidence-based, practical guide. THE BOOK OF FEELING BLUE offers hope to those experiencing depression, explaining the nature of the condition and the many different forms it can take at different life stages, and offering straightforward advice about how to manage it. Written in a chatty, reassuring tone with supplementary illustrations included throughout to demonstrate key points, chapters cover all aspects of the condition, including how to support a family member or friend who may be suffering from it, providing a therapist's evidence-based, practical toolkit for dealing with this widespread and debilitating mental-health problem. 'Provides a language to articulate things that can feel hard to express' - Pandora Sykes, Sunday Times on The Book of Overthinking

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Author:   Gwendoline Smith
Publisher:   Atlantic Books
Imprint:   Atlantic Books
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.277kg
ISBN:  

9781838958152


ISBN 10:   1838958150
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   05 January 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

i: INTRODUCTION ii: PART ONE 1: Feeling blue 2: Beyond the blues 3: How to tell the difference between the blues and depression 4: Images of psychiatry 5: To be medicated or not to be medicated? 6: Whose couch is it anyway - which therapy is for me? 7: Natural therapies - looking back to Mother Nature 8: Depression - what's God got to do with it? iii: PART TWO 9: The baby blues and beyond 10: Teenage depression - more than just a phase 11: Gender, sexuality and depression 12: 'Why wouldn't I be depressed?' - depression in children 13: Depression and older people 14: Depression - a family affair 15: You've got a friend

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Gwendoline Smith is a clinical psychologist, speaker, blogger and the author of the books The Book of Feeling Blue (2023), The Book of Angst (2022), The Book of Overthinking (2021) and The Book of Knowing (2020), Depression Explained (2002) and Sharing the Load (1996). She also goes by the name Dr Know. Born and raised in Chatham, Kent, she now lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

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