Mayo Clinic on Depression

by Keith Kramlinger

Book Overview

Answers to Help You Understand, Recognize, and Manage Depression. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893005178
• ISBN13: 9781893005174
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Mayo Clinic
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Informative, easy to understand book on depression.

I checked out three books on depression from my local library. After reading all three, this one seemed the best, so I bought a copy for my personal library. This book is great, I don't know why no one else has written a review. The Mayo Clinic is a well known medical research facility, so it is a credible source of medical information. The book is straight forward, easy to understand. It covers recognizing depression and the different treatments available. Since the book is by the Mayo Clinic and not sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry, you hear information that you normally would not hear. Such as the medical study that showed exercise was as effective a treatment for depression as pharmaceutical drugs. See page 113. I did not see that research in any of the books sponsored by drug companies. Traditionally depression is viewed as a "loser's" illness, but the book presents depression from a vantage point that anyone can suffer from depression. It covers a personal story of a Medical Doctor who was overworked and fell into depression. Abraham Lincoln suffered from depression. Prior to Lincoln becoming President of the United States, he wrote to a close friend, "I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would be not one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell. I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better it appears to me." I recommended this book.