Queer Blues: The Lesbian and Gay Guide to Overcoming Depression

by Kimeron N. Hardin, Marny Hall, Betty Berzon (Foreword)

Queer Blues is the only guide to focus on the triggers of depression specific to the gay and lesbian community and to offer concrete strategies to overcome them. The authors explain the many forms of depression and explore its unique impact on lesbians and gay men. If you're a lesbian or a gay man struggling with depression, this book offers you real tools for real change. A self-test helps you determine your own level of depression and assess its impact on your life. With this information, go on to explore the reciprocal relationship between mood and self-esteem. Examine your core beliefs about self-worth and identify self-sabotaging habits that may make you vulnerable to both insecurity and depression. A final section provides tested, practical methods distilled from the authors' more than twenty-five years of clinical experience to help you build a plan to effectively manage your depression.

Genres: LGBT, Gay, Psychology, Nonfiction, Lesbian, Queer, Mental Health

260 pages, Paperback

First published June 25, 2001

About the author

Kimeron Hardin is a clinical psychologist who specializes in gay and lesbian issues, health psychology and stress management.

He was born in a small town near the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina to fundamentalist Christian parents. He later attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and went on to complete his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University Southern Mississippi.

He currently lives just south of San Franicisco with his partner, Brad Leary, in San Carlos, CA.

Reviews

[Alexander Mull · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book had a lot of good information in it about the potential causes of depression, to medications and treatment, especially since it is a little bit older. Some of the information, and writing itself, may be a bit too complicated, complex, and perhaps overwhelming to the intended audience. I think for an individual to get the most out of the book would be to read it while seeing a psychotherapist/counselor. I think the book could almost be more intended for students studying counseling, social work, psychology, and marriage and family counseling.