- Paperback: 106 pages
- Publisher: Sheldon Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (23 Nov 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0859697479
- ISBN-13: 978-0859697477
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 633,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Depressive mood swings can affect people of both sexes and every age. This book describes the causes, symptoms and treatment of depressive moods. Dr McKeon discusses fully the ways in which mood swings can be recognized - the signs of depression and its opposite, an unnatural elation. He also reveals the problems that can arise if the illness is not diagnosed - it may lead to alcohol dependence, overspending, sexual excess, and even, if the depression is deep enough, to suicide. He gives advice on how patients and their families can learn to cope and points out that most sufferers come to term with and accept the problem.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
After many years of suffering and being told to Pull my socks up or calm down - being thought of as Mentally Ill, not knowing what the hell was going on, taking all the tablets in the world and wondering why I never seemed to get any better, I bought this book, and didn't read it.
It didn't make me feel any better ...... I thought owning it would work! .... read it, but read it with the family, show your friends, it speaks more words than is printed within and no matter how hard you try you can't tell your friends and family how you feel.... BUT THIS BOOK CAN AND DOES. - don't leave it on the shelf.
It didn't cure me but the hell it stops the illness causing bigger problems.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
As a recently diagnosed sufferer of Manic Depression I found the book one of the comprehensive guides to the illness that I have come across. I had spent ten years in total confusion as to why I acted as I did, with numerous affairs under my belt as well as the other things that to the bystander seam as though you are just totally reckless. When I first recieved my diagnosis I was relieved, but this soon turned to confusion as I was bombarded by so much different advice.
This book helped me to clear the confusion and to dismiss unhelpful advice.It still remains on my bedside cabinet to steer me through the bad times when depression overwhelms and there seems no way out.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has MD or who looking after someone suffering from this condition. It helps you to remember that there is a life after MD is diagnosed and it is possible to get up again and join the rest of society.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
What I've read so far seems very observant and useful in relation to devising personal methods of coping.
If you take this book at face value and just take from it what you need for yourself then it will prove very handy.
That it takes into account the input from sufferers of the 'bipolar effect' gives this book its greatest advantage, but I would reccomend that you keep searching for your own answers and keep questioning everything to find your own truths.
One thing I will reccomend, after having reading a few books on the subject, is that you widen your search and seek knowledge in other areas to maintain your 'balance'...
If you take this book at face value and just take from it what you need for yourself then it will prove very handy.
That it takes into account the input from sufferers of the 'bipolar effect' gives this book its greatest advantage, but I would reccomend that you keep searching for your own answers and keep questioning everything to find your own truths.
One thing I will reccomend, after having reading a few books on the subject, is that you widen your search and seek knowledge in other areas to maintain your 'balance'...
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