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By J. Raymond DePaulo, Leslie Alan Horvitz, Kay Redfield Jamison

ISBN-10: 0471249726

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From a number one health worker at Johns Hopkins, here's an up to the moment, definitive advisor to what s identified approximately melancholy and the way it may be treated.Around ten percentage of North americans be afflicted by melancholy sooner or later -- and greater than part haven t even sought aid. Now, Dr. Raymond DePaulo, one of many international s optimal professionals on melancholy, presents a delicate, thorough, and reassuring booklet for victims from melancholy and those that care approximately them. This sensible advisor for people with melancholy and their households -- the single absolutely entire e-book out there -- indicates readers how you can determine the matter, then directs them to many of the sorts of therapy, together with medicines, psychotherapy, help teams, and workout. it really is one of many few books to debate extensive manic melancholy, the bipolar kind of melancholy. Dr. DePaulo discusses either mainstream (the most modern drugs and speak remedies) and replacement paths and divulges the reality in regards to the risky fallacies that abound approximately melancholy. accomplished, compassionate, and down to earth within the very most modern learn into mind chemistry, psychology, and medicinal drugs, this can be a definitive, landmark roadmap to 1 of the main devastating -- and customary -- psychological health problems.

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Writing in the waning years of the nineteenth century, a French physician named de Clerambault discussed a phenomenon he’d observed in one of his patients who’d formed a fixation on a man she’d only seen from afar in church. “From this distant view alone, she asserted that she had absolute proof that this gentleman was in love with her and thought of no one but her. ” The woman was suffering from what we now call a delusion of passion or erotomania. Strange as it may seem, this type of delusion can occur in a depressive disorder, a manic episode or in mixed states.

Why Do Women Get Depressed More Often? More women than men will develop major depression. We know from true population studies that almost one in five women in the United States will have one or more episodes of clinical depression. That rate is two or three times the rate of depressive illness that men have. How- 02 depaulo Pt 1 12/17/01 2:02 PM Page 39 WHO IS AT RISK FOR DEPRESSION? 39 ever, practically no difference can be seen in terms of gender when it comes to individuals with the most severe cases of the depression.

No matter how many patients I’ve seen, there’s one thing about which I can always be sure: Mania and depression are diseases that hold many more surprises. The Worst of Both Worlds: Mixed States Finally we turn to another type of illness, which is called a mixed manic state because it simultaneously combines elements of both depression and mania and so it is by definition a manifestation of manic depression or bipolar disorder. On the face of it, it seems impossible since we call it a bipolar illness?

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