With depression likely to affect one in four people in the course of their lives, coping with the illness is a skill we could all learn. Depression is an illness; it is a survivable illness; it is one from which we can recover - though every year several thousand people commit suicide in Britain while troubled by it. A useful little pocket book to help you get a focus on what is happening and take realistic, practical steps to get help and overcome the trauma. Depression can be overcome, but you need to understand it and get appropriate help and support.