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Understanding depression : a complete guide to its diagnosis and treatment by Klein, Donald F., 1928- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Recent studies have found that one woman in five, and one man in ten, will suffer from depression or manic depression sometime during the course of their lives. This is a disturbing statistic, but there is hope, because more and more evidence has surfaced to indicate that many psychiatric disorders are biological diseases that can be successfully treated with medication. Most people, however, know little about these recent findings. They don't know how to tell if the depression they are suffering from is biological or not, nor what they can do to recover from it if it is. Psychiatrists Donald Klein and Paul Wender offer a definitive guide to depressive illness, its causes, course, and symptoms. They clarify the difference between depression (which is a normal emotion) and biological depression (which is an illness), and include several self-rating tests with which readers can determine whether or not they should seek psychiatric evaluation to determine if they have a biological depressive illness. They describe the symptoms of biological depression, among them loss of energy, changes in eating habits, sleep disturbances, decreased sex drive, restlessness, poor concentration and ind
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Klein, Donald F., 1928-
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, 1993.
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780195072792
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Education, Medicine