How to help depressed children, adolescents and adults get help.
Hints to speed your recovery from depression.
Depression is a brain disease.
Scales to measure the severity of depression and mania.
A screening questionnaire for Bipolar Disorder.
So you don't want to go to a psychiatrist.
What depression is and what it is not.
The best things to say to someone who is depressed.
Ther worst things to say to someone who is depressed.
Another example of what it feels like to be depressed.
Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families. (An important book)
St. John's Wort and depression.
The difference between unipolar (major) depression and
Bipolar depression.
Goldberg Depression Scale in Danish.
Goldberg Depression Scale in German.
The Hamilton Depression Scale (HAM-D) for measuring the severity of depression.
Kay Redfield Jaimison's An Unquiet Mind. (An important book)
Introduction to many aspects of depression from the NIMH.
The official DSM-IV criteria for Depression.
DSM-IV criteria for Bipolar Disorders.
DSM-IV criteria for cyclothymia.
Information on depression. (in Spanish)
Best psychiatric hospitals in the USA.
Eleven unethical practices of managed care.
Styron's Darkness Visible : A Memoir of Madness. (an important book)
Another introduction to Bipolar Disorder.
The underrecognition and undertreatment of depression.
The extensive depression FAQs from alt.support.depression.
Important books on depression.
The burden of depression for African-Americans.
The economic burden of depression.
Helping someone who is depressed.
Reasonable accommodations at school or work for people with mood disorders.
Teens helping friends with depression.
Basic reading list on affective disorders.
Depression research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
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