Restoring Intimacy: The Patient's Guide to Maintaining Relationships During Depression

by National Dmda and Drew Pinsky

The strongest of personal relationships are tested by depression. Depression leaves partners, friends, and loved ones with many questions, and few comfortable places to turn for answers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967389305
• ISBN13: 9780967389301
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Fountain Book Press
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

I WANT MORE!

This book was easy to read and helped me understand more about the side effects of medication and the impact depression can have on relationships. I liked reading the questions/answers that were provided but I wish there were more tips on how to maintain my relationship through my depression. I would recommend this to someone who wants more of an overview/clinical view on depression. For those of you who want tips on how to strengthen your relationship, look elsewhere...

Reassuring and helpful

This book is a godsend. I am struggling with a husband who is depressed and this is the first book I found that addressed the problems of intimacy when a spouse is depressed. The panel of experts gave thoughtful and helpful answers. Most of all, it was hopeful and reassuring to know that I am not alone.

Restoring Intimacy restores hope too

I found this book to be a tremendous help in understanding the way that depression hits both the one with it and the partner. It offers insights and advice about how to help someone you love and it sheds light on issues that nobody talks about - how depression and its treatment can interrupt intimacy and that we all deserve to have full relationships, even if we are livign with depression. It was easy to read and encouraging.

Intimacy should not be sacrificed because of depression

In my constant search for information and advice on how to help relationships survive depression, I found Restoring Intimacy: The Patient's Guide To Maintaining Relationships During Depression. Restoring Intimacy is a book of questions submitted by people living with depression, as well as from their partners and family members. The questions range from how to recognize depression in a loved one, how to cope with side effects of antidepressant medications that may affect sexual function, and how to talk with a doctor about depression-related intimacy problems. Seven mental health experts, answer the questions, clearly, concisely and in a language that the average person can understand. This is the first book I have found that addresses real-life concerns about the impact of depression and its treatments on intimate relationships. It is also one of the only books that includes the partner and/or family member in the process of recovery. Restoring Intimacy reminded me that intimate relationships are not dispensable and they shouldn't be sacrificed because of depression or its treatments.

Real-life questions answered in language I can understand.

This is the first book I've seen that addresses concerns of the partner of a person with depression. It's easy to read, and I love that the quetions were submitted by people living with depression. The medication chart at the back of the book is terrific; it answered all those questions I never got answered before. I wish everyone living with depression would read this book because it shows that no one is to blame, and it has a strong message of hope.