Review of "Overcoming Depression"
By Demitri and Janice PapolosHarperCollins, 1997
Review by CAP on Jul 7th 1997

A very informative book about depression and manic depression. A good overview of the disease and its effects on those of us who suffer with it. Some of it is a little on the technical side, but it's full of facts and explanations for those with the disease and those around them. A lot of the really spooky aspects of depression (what happens if I have to be hospitalized) are discussed in depth.
Resources
Articles
- Introduction to Bipolar Disorder
- Current Understandings of the Causes of Bipolar Disorder
- Prevalence and Course of Bipolar Disorder
- Contemporary Understanding of Bipolar Disorder: Causes and Outcomes
- Bipolar Causes: Diathesis-Stress Hypothesis
- Bipolar Causes: Genetics
- Neurochemistry and Endocrinology in Bipolar Disorder
- Immunology and Bipolar Disorder
- Body Rhythms and Bipolar Disorder
- Brain Imaging and Bipolar Disorder
- Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder
- Medication Treatments for Bipolar Disorder
- Bipolar Medication Treatment
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment - Lithium
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment - Valproate and Carbamazepine
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment - Lamotrigine and Calcium Channel Blockers
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment - Antipsychotic Medications and Omega-3 fatty acids
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment - Antidepressant Medications
- Psychotherapy and Other Treatments
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment - Hospitalization and Electroconvulsive Therapy
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment - Psychotherapy
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Continued
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment - Family Focused Therapy and Interpersonal/Social Rhythm Therapy
- Self-Help and Helping Others
- References and Reading List
News
- Many Psych Meds Trigger Weight Gain, But New Research Points to Better Options
- What's Best for Treating Bipolar Disorder?
- Is Shock Therapy Making a Comeback Against Bipolar Disorder?
- More Are Turning to Pot When Depressed – But Does It Help or Harm?
- Vitamin D Won't Reduce Risk of Depression
- Could Botox Injections Relieve Depression?
- Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Share Genetic Roots
Questions and Answers
- Does This Sound Like Bipolar?
- Do I Have Adult ADD?
- Why do I Have These Mood Swings?
- Bipolar
- Soon to be 15 Year Old Step Daughter Who is Physically Abusive to Family Members
- I Can't control my Mind Anymore, do I Need to Leave?
- Bipolar Medications That do not Cause Sexual Dysfunction
- Bipolar or Depressed or Neither?
- How Can I Help my Fiancé?
- Depression
- 92 more
- Illness or Exhaustion?
- Am I Really That Messed Up?
- Intrusive Thoughts?
- What's the Best Option?
- Bipolar Teen
- Morbid Jealousy?
- Trying to Save 37 Years of Marriage With My Bipolar Husband
- Bipolar Obsessive Thoughts and False Memories
- Mentally ill Daughter
- Is There Something Wrong With Me?
- Bipolar Girlfriend 55 Years Old
- Am I Always Going to Feel Like This?
- Bipolar Teen Son, ........
- Bipolar Disorder and False and Displaced Memories?
- I Just Feel So Depressed
- Helping and Watching a Friend's Recurrent Depression?
- Boyfriends Daughter
- Intrusive Thoughts!?
- Serious Manic Episode Plus Alcohol
- Diagnosis Second Opinion
- Paranoid Thoughts
- Bipolar Disorder and ADHD
- Will He Hit Me Eventually?
- I Really Need Some Advice...
- Bipolar Boyfriend
- Relationship With My Bipolar and ADHD Girlfriend
- Delusions and False Memories
- Anger Driven Down Wrong Road
- I Don't Know What To Do
- New Diagnosis...My Doc Says I Am Not Bipolar. Should I Go Back to My Medication?
- Bipolar Woman with Secret Lives
- Dealing with Bipolar Dsorder
- Is This Bi Polar?
- A Mom In Need of Help
- Im so confused...is is BPD or Bipolar?
- Not Normal
- Anger and Irritability in my husband's behaviour
- I am bulimic for more than 10 years, and it is killing me...
- Can I survive without all these horrible meds?
- Where can I get the energy
- Bipolar sister, Narcissist boyfriend
- Should I Give Up On This Marriage?
- Is she mentally ill and is there anything i can do?
- Bipolar and children
- Will I be ok without professional help?
- Pregnant with bipolar
- Is it ok to feel this way?
- abuse toward bi-polars
- Loyalty or Love?
- Possible borderline?
- Dealing with a family member's complete personality change
- What type of exams can proven that a person has bipolar disorder?
- Am I bipolar?
- Bi-polar with PTSD
- Yoga help Bipolar
- Is Bipolar Inheritable?
- Physically Abusive Mentally Ill Son
- An Empty Shell
- Sarcastic And Wanting To Change
- Out Of Control Friend
- Bipolar Parenting
- Odd Eating Disorder
- Can ADHD Turn Into Bipolar?
- Is Bipolar Inheritable?
- Single, Stressed And Guilty
- Bipolar and Drinking...
- Marital Crisis
- Do I Still Need Therapy If I'm Medicated?
- Hope For An Alcoholic Manic-Depressive
- Are Bipolars Abusive?
- Parttime Bipolar Girlfriend
- How Can I Help My Bipolar Wife?
- Marijuana?
- Possible Klonopin Addiction
- Bipolar Wife
- A Test For Bipolar Disorder?
- Did I Cause My Daughter's Depression?
- How Can I Help My Alcoholic Unmedicated Bipolar Girlfriend?
- Treatment is Too Much Trouble
- Bipolar Illness
- HMO Blues
- Problem Child
- Helping Someone with Bipolar Disorder
- Cyclical Moods
- Depression and Friendship
- How Can I Help My Friend?
- What To Treat First?
- Bipolar Chat Rooms?
- Bipolar or Just Moody?
- Alone and Bipolar
- Merlin writes:
- Suzanne writes:
Tests
Book & Media Reviews
- A Tragic Kind of Wonderful
- Active Treatment of Depression
- Adult Bipolar Disorders
- Agents in My Brain
- American Mania
- An Unquiet Mind
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder Demystified
- Bipolar Disorder in Childhood and Early Adolescence
- Bipolar Disorders
- 48 more
- Bipolar Kids
- Bipolar, Not So Much
- Crazy
- Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
- Depression Is a Choice
- Detour
- Electroboy
- Essential Psychopharmacology of Depression and Bipolar Disorder
- Fast Girl
- Hurry Down Sunshine
- I am Not Sick I Don't Need Help!
- Lab Girl
- Lithium for Medea
- Living with Bipolar Disorder
- Long Shot
- Loving Someone With Bipolar Disorder
- Madness
- Manic
- Manic Depression
- Manic Minds
- Mommy I'm Still in Here
- Mood Genes
- New Hope for Children and Teens with Bipolar Disorder
- New Hope For People With Bipolar Disorder
- Night Falls Fast
- Overcoming Depression
- Perfect Chaos
- RX
- Scattershot
- Surviving Manic Depression
- Swing Low
- The Best Awful
- The Bipolar Child
- The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide
- The Devil and Daniel Johnston
- The Hypomanic Edge
- The Mother of Black Hollywood
- The Naked Bird Watcher
- The Noonday Demon
- The Pits and the Pendulum
- The Years of Silence are Past
- To Walk on Eggshells
- Toxic Psychiatry
- Undoing Depression
- What Goes Up
- What Works for Bipolar Kids
- When Someone You Love Is Bipolar
- Zelda
Links
Videos
- Bipolar Disorder Video
- Overcoming Depression
- How to Talk About Bipolar Disorder with Anyone
- How to get stuff done when you are depressed
- Tell Me About Depression
- Depression: More Than Just the Blues
- Can people with depression harm themselves?
- Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
- Understanding Bipolar Disorder in Children
- Getting Help for Family Members of Bipolar Patients Video
- 16 more
- Tell Me About Bipolar Disorder
- Individualized Depression Treatment
- Bipolar Disorder
- Optimizing Lithium Treatment
- Treating Youth with Bipolar Disorder
- Laura Bain - Living with Bipolar Type II
- Feeling, thinking, and creativity in bipolar disorder
- The Mindful Way Through Depression
- Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
- #StrongerThanStigma - Michael Angelakos: My Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis
- It’s Bipolar Disorder Not Depression
- 5 Types of Bipolar Disorder
- What is bipolar disorder?
- Bipolar Mom Struggles With The Daily Routine
- Living Bipolar
- What is Depression?
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