National Depression Education and Awareness Month

By Coll Rowe | September 28 2024 | HealthPsychology

For National Depression Education and Awareness Month in October, we are sharing a collection of titles that educates and informs on depression, including personal stories from those who have experienced depression and topics that range from causes and symptoms of depression to how to develop coping mechanisms to battle depression.

My Depression
My Depression
A Picture Book
Elizabeth Swados
9781609806040
An intimate, frank and uplifting memoir-in-drawings of the author’s struggle with depression.
$16.95 US
Apr 21, 2015
Paperback
176 Pages
Seven Stories Press
The Absent Moon
The Absent Moon
A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression
Luiz Schwarcz
9780593490747
A literary sensation in Brazil, Luiz Schwarcz’s brave and tender memoir interrogates his ordeal of bipolar disorder in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence—the long echo of the Holocaust across generations.
$17.00 US
Feb 27, 2024
Paperback
240 Pages
Penguin Books
Life B
Life B
Overcoming Double Depression
Bethanne Patrick
9781640096448

Plagued by depression her entire life, it wasn’t until her early fifties that writer and book critic Bethanne Patrick, advocating for her own care, received a medical diagnosis that would set her on the path to wellness and stability.

$16.95 US
May 14, 2024
Paperback
208 Pages
Counterpoint
How to Change Your Mind
How to Change Your Mind
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollan
9780735224155
A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs—and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences.
$18.00 US
May 14, 2019
Paperback
464 Pages
Penguin Books
The Limits of My Language
The Limits of My Language
Meditations on Depression
Eva Meijer
9781782275992

An intimate study of depression that draws on personal experience and a deep knowledge of philosophy.

$16.95 US
Apr 18, 2023
Paperback
144 Pages
Pushkin Press
Marbles
Marbles
Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir
Ellen Forney
9781592407323
Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.
$22.00 US
Nov 06, 2012
Paperback
256 Pages
Avery
Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve
Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve
Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
Stanley Rosenberg
9781623170240
The bestselling guide to the vagus nerve, now in 20+ languages: unlock the self-healing power of Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory Vagus exercises for reducing anxiety, healing trauma, and rebalancing your autonomic nervous system.
$25.95 US
Dec 05, 2017
Paperback
296 Pages
North Atlantic Books
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