The best-selling Depression Workbook offers interactive exercises that help you take responsibility for your own wellness. It teaches you skills you need to cope with depression: tracking and controlling moods; building a support system; increasing self-confidence and self-esteem; avoiding conditions that can exacerbate mood swings; and using relaxation, diet, and exercise to stabilize moods. This edition includes a chapter that details a step-by-step process to help you develop your own plan for managing depression symptoms and staying well. It also contains an updated list of resources, including an extensive list of helpful Web resourcesoand expanded material on specific treatment strategies. The book includes updated depression resources for mental health professionals. "This book should be put in the hands of anyone who suffers from a mood disorder. It offers a real tool in moving toward wellness and stability." -NAMI Advocate "A moving first-person account of the manner in which the author, a distinguished teacher and lecturer, struggled to recognize, cope with, and eventually overcome her long-standing depression.... This book could become an essential strength for those who are struggling to cope with this burden." -Child & Family Behavior Therapy "At last: a step-by-step workbook program for dealing with chronic depression and manic depression!" -Bookwatch "This awesome compilation is outstanding by the highest standards in professionalism, both literary and psychological." -Small Press "The Depression Workbook is an essential tool to assist people struggling with depression and mania to gain insight into those illnesses. This insight empowers the reader to actively enter a lifelong journey of healing and wellness." -Mary D. Moller, Executive Director of the Center for Patient and Family Mental Health Education, Omaha, Nebraska