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The Book of Feeling Blue

Understand and Manage Depression

Gwendoline Smith
Presenting an evidence-based, reassuring guide to understanding and managing depression, the psychologist Gwendoline Smith explains the nature of the condition and the many different forms it can take at various life stages. She then provides a practical toolkit of strategies covering the full range of treatment options from psychiatry through to natural therapies.
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Product information:
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Year: 2023
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 316pp
  • Illustrated: Yes
  • Dimensions: 196x128mm
  • ISBN: 9781838958152
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.3kg
Product code:
538213
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Discover how best to manage mental health issues - specifically depression - in bestselling psychologist Gwendoline Smith's evidence-based, practical guide.

THE BOOK OF FEELING BLUE offers hope to those experiencing depression, explaining the nature of the condition and the many different forms it can take at different life stages, and offering straightforward advice about how to manage it.

Written in a chatty, reassuring tone with supplementary illustrations included throughout to demonstrate key points, chapters cover all aspects of the condition, including how to support a family member or friend who may be suffering from it, providing a therapist's evidence-based, practical toolkit for dealing with this widespread and debilitating mental-health problem.

'Provides a language to articulate things that can feel hard to express' - Pandora Sykes, Sunday Times on The Book of Overthinking
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