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Sheldon Press
"Depression: Healing Emotional Distress
A holistic view
Linda Hurcombe
Judging by the statistics, you could be forgiven for thinking we are a nation of depressives; an astounding two-thirds of British adults say they suffer from depression, according to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
What is going on? With more than £27 million prescriptions for antidepressants being written a year, can depression really be an illness? Or do the numbers reflect the lack of proper mental health resources and the stresses and isolation of modern life?
When does legitimate grief at life events shade into mental illness, and what is the difference between distress and depression? Well-informed, widely-researched, and punctuated with humour, this book asks some powerful questions about the nature of depression, and looks at how to cope in the face of a condition that robs you of the very skills and energies you need to recover. Topics covered include:
How it feels to be depressed
Depression through history
The spectre of suicide
The disease model of depression and antidepressant drugs
Healing and recovery
How mental and spiritual wellbeing may interlink
Depression is viewed from a holistic viewpoint as a medical, cognitive, lifestyle and spiritual phenomenon.
LINDA HURCOMBE
is a writer, editor and educator, and author of Losing a Child, Sheldon Press. A previous editor of Compassion, the quarterly journal of The Compassionate Friends UK.
For further information, a review copy or to interview the author, please contact Fiona Marshall on 020 7592 3953 or fmarcgakk[AT]spck.org.uk
Depression: Healing Emotional Distress
by Linda Hurcombe
is published on 21st June 2007 by Sheldon Press
£7.99 128 pp Paperback
ISBN 978-18470-9014-0