Table of Contents

i: INTRODUCTION ii: PART ONE 1: Feeling blue 2: Beyond the blues 3: How to tell the difference between the blues and depression 4: Images of psychiatry 5: To be medicated or not to be medicated? 6: Whose couch is it anyway - which therapy is for me? 7: Natural therapies - looking back to Mother Nature 8: Depression - what's God got to do with it? iii: PART TWO 9: The baby blues and beyond 10: Teenage depression - more than just a phase 11: Gender, sexuality and depression 12: 'Why wouldn't I be depressed?' - depression in children 13: Depression and older people 14: Depression - a family affair 15: You've got a friend

About the Author

Gwendoline Smith is a clinical psychologist, speaker, blogger and the author of the books The Book of Feeling Blue (2023), The Book of Angst (2022), The Book of Overthinking (2021) and The Book of Knowing (2020), Depression Explained (2002) and Sharing the Load (1996). She also goes by the name Dr Know. Born and raised in Chatham, Kent, she now lives in Auckland, New Zealand.