Get your hands on the best depression books. As you adjust to your depression diagnosis, choose doctors and determine your treatment plan, it’s crucial that you become as knowledgeable about depression as you possibly can. The following three books provide an excellent introduction to depression and treatment:
On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations About Conquering Depression by Kathy Cronkite
You Mean I Don’t Have to Feel This Way? by Colette Dowling
Overcoming Depression by Demitri Papolos, M.D. and Janice Papolos
Finally, start living your life again. Your depression diagnosis is in all likelihood a confirmation of what you already knew – that something was wrong. But you’re not as helpless as you were yesterday in the face of this illness. Now that the problem has been identified, you can educate yourself and move forward with treatment. I look back on my diagnosis as the beginning of a new life — soon you will, too.
