Dealing With Depression Naturally

by Syd Baumel

Dealing with Depression Naturally is a comprehensive user's guide to the wide range of natural antidepressant treatments. The author provides a balanced review of the evidence for each approach and detailed information on how to use these supplements and implement these lifestyle changes, psychotherapeutic techniques, etc., safely and effectively. The presentation is casual, but the scholarship is rigorous. A Doubleday Health Book Club Main Alternate, Dealing with Depression Naturally is a must read for anyone trying to cope with blue moods, severe clinical depression, or anything in between.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Health

270 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Damian · Rating 3 out of 5]

I guess I was looking for more of a "how-to" book, whereas this is more like a reference of methods for dealing with depression... Pretty much the first half of the book deals with "natural" cures (vitamin, mineral, herbal, etc.), and while I think changing diet is a perfectly good method, dosing on anything at highly concentrated levels doesn't strike me as especially "natural."

On a more positive note though, the second half of the book explores all kinds of methods from cognitive-behavioral therapy to bright light therapy, cold water therapy, exercise, meditation, and all kinds of other stuff, as well as research that offers potential mechanisms of how such methods might work.

[saeedeh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even though it's an old book, most of the advices are still good to try.