The Depression Workbook: A Guide for Living with Depression and Manic Depression

Synopsis from Amazon:

From best-selling author Mary Ellen Copeland comes the second edition of The Depression Workbook, which includes new, research-based self-help strategies for taking charge of depression and developing a wellness recovery action plan. Mary Ellen Copeland's breakthrough guide, The Depression Workbook, was based on the responses of 120 survey participants who shared their experiences, insights, and strategies for living with extreme mood swings. Throughout, interactive exercises provide guidance to help readers take responsibility for their own wellness and teach essential coping skills, such as 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. A major feature of the second edition is a new chapter that details a step-by-step process to help readers develop their own plan for managing symptoms and staying well.

The second edition also contains an updated list of resources, including an extensive list of helpful web resources, as well as expanded material on specific treatment strategies and updated resources for mental health professionals.