The author shares her experiences with childhood depression, explains what is currently known about major depression in adolescents, and offers tips on how to deal with depression both at home and at school.
"Cait Irwin was diagnosed with major depression at the age of fourteen, and she nearly lost her battle with the illness before she was able to receive the treatment she so desperately needed. In Monochrome Days, Irwin, now an adult and a successful artist, shares her experiences…
"Cait Irwin was diagnosed with major depression at the age of fourteen, and she nearly lost her battle with the illness before she was able to receive the treatment she so desperately needed. In Monochrome Days, Irwin, now an adult and a successful artist, shares her experiences…
The author shares her experiences with childhood depression, explains what is currently known about major depression in adolescents, and offers tips on how to deal with depression both at home and at school.
A harried psychologist is shocked to realize that she meets more of the criteria signifying a major depressive episode than does the patient she is counseling. In fact, as these journal entries show, she has every one of the warning signs. She also describes the steps she takes …
Through her diary entries therapist Martha Manning tells how depression transformed her from a happy, healthy, and successful person to a suicidal sleepwalker and how electroconvulsive therapy helped her recover.
"Depression transformed Martha Manning from a happy, healthy, and successful wife, mother, professor, and psychotherapist who "lived with the innocent arrogance that [her] life was the simple product of [her] effort, will, and design" to a sleepwalker haunted by thoughts of suic…
Through her diary entries therapist Martha Manning tells how depression transformed her from a happy, healthy, and successful person to a suicidal sleepwalker and how electroconvulsive therapy helped her recover.