Depression Community from HealthIndex UK

You may books online from Depression Alliance who, together with "Being Yourself" (a specialist provider of books relating to personal development and growth), have developed a comprehensive and unique list of books for people who wish to know more about depression.

The following is a brief extract. You may also order a complete list from Depression Alliance.

1. Agoraphobia C. Weeks, HarperCollins, ISBN 0, £4.99 Simple effective treatment of agoraphobia.
2. Assert Yourself G. Lindenfield, Thorsons, ISBN 0722526520, £4.99 Teaches how to assert yourself and not feel shy, inadequate and not too easily led. A handy guide for building up confidence and acting positively.
3. A Self Help Guide to Managing Depression P.T. Barker, Chapman & Hall, ISBN 041255680, £4.99 A detailed programme of practical self help methods to combat depression.
4. Anxiety and Depression: A practical guide to recovery R. G. Priest, Warner PBS, ISBN 0356144607, £7.49 Practical self help methods to reduce stress - an explanation of the causes and effects of anxiety and depression, details on the action and side-effects of medication and professional help available. OUT OF PRINT.
5. An Aspect of Fear Grace Sheppard, Darton, Lingham and Todd, ISBN 0232518289, £6.95
6. A State of Depression Margaret McRae, Macmillan, ISBN 03333982X, The author's true story. The book gives a first-hand account of the depression and mental illness that affected her at the age of 26. The reader is given an unique and moving account of the psychotherapy which restored her to a full and happy life.
7. A Woman in Your Own Right Anne Dickson, Quartet, ISBN 0704334208, £5.95 Assertiveness leaves you with a tremendous feeling of self-confidence, self-respect, self-worth, the freedom to be who you are, not who other people think you are.
8. Beating Depression - It Can Be Done McIntosh & Noble, Aral Books, ISBN 187446605X, £7.50 This book is about depression and ways of dealing with it. The book examines some theories and explanations which have been suggested to aid the understanding of depression. Also offers some ideas of how to avoid becoming depressed.
9. Beating the Blues Xandria Williams, Cedar/Mandarin, ISBN 074931550, £5.99
10. Body Traps Dr Judith Rodin, , ISBN 0099233711, £4.99 Dr Rodin is a world expert on weight and behaviour. This book will open your eyes to the traps we fall into or even lay for ourselves.
11. Breaking the Bonds Dorothy Rowe, HarperCollins, ISBN 0006375650, £6.99 Written by a well known internationally renowned expert on depression, using 25 years' research - has been described as wise, witty, factual and poetic. Paperback version of "The Depression Hanbook".
12. Breaking Free (A self help book for adults who were sexually abused as children) K. Toon, Sheldon Press, ISBN 0859696642
13. Climbing Out of Depression Sue Atkinson, Lion Books, ISBN 0745922481, £7.49 Written by a Depression Alliance member, very much from within depression, suggests ways of coping that have worked for her.
14. Coming Through the Darkness E. Stubbs, Friends Fellowship of Healing, ISBN 187304033, £1.50 Friends' personal experiences of depression.
15. Living with Fear Isaac Marks, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 070403961, £8.50 This is the Bible for all sufferers from Phobic and Obsessional problems. It explains the interior workings of phobic problems.