Beating Depression: The Complete Guide to Depression and How to Overcome It: At Your Fingertips Guide
by: Stefan Cembrowicz, Dorcas, Kingham
Class Publishing March 2006

Depression is a universal illness: we are all potentially at risk. The symptoms vary wildly, but can include sleeplessness and loss of drive, feelings of guilt and anger, and even the desire to self-harm. However, depression is extremely treatable, and this easy-to-read book offers a thoughtful and straightforward guide to self-help techniques and possible treatments.

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Relative Stranger
by: Mary Loudon
Canongate Books, March 2006

"Relative Stranger" is the riveting story of Mary Loudon's search for her dead sister, whom she had not seen for the last twelve years of her life. An explicit account of the devastation that schizophrenia can visit upon a person and their family, it will leave no reader unaffected. Asking more questions than it answers, "Relative Stranger" offers a profound and uncompromising challenge to the ways in which we think about one another.

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Saving Samantha
by: Samantha Weaver
Hay House Inc (17 April 2006)

Samantha Weaver is an extraordinary young woman surviving a dysfunctional childhood and the paralysis of the clinical depression that trapped her throughout her youth. Written as a first person narrative, Samantha Weaver describes the agonies and neglect of her childhood and her fight to escape the depression that pushed her to the brink of suicide.

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Living With The Black Dog
by: Caroline Carr
White Ladder Press 2007

Caroline Carr passes on advice advice and support from her own personal experience on how to cope if you are living with a partner who is depressed - how to look after yourself and the rest of the family, how to support your depressed partner and where to go to for help.

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