Defeating Depression: Real Help for You and Those Who Love You
Author: Howard W Ston
While books on depression abound, what makes this book unique is that it speaks both to the person experiencing depression and to that person's network of family members and friends. Informed by a practitioner in the field of psychology, the book examines depression, what it is, and how to deal with it.
About the Author:
Howard W. Stone, Ph.D., professor emeritus at Texas Christian University
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments viIs It Depression or Something Else?
Introduction 3
Are You Depressed? 12
Depression on the Rise 20
Faces of Depression 28
Masquerade: Depression and Other Maladies 41
Hope Is a Future Word 51
The Four Faces of Depression: What You Can Do
Body and Brain: The Physical Face of Depression 64
Physical Remedies 75
Medical Remedies 86
What Do You Think? The Cognitive Face of Depression 98
Those Negative Thoughts Keep Running through My Head 108
Think Again: How to Transform Your Thinking 117
Journey of a Thousand Miles: The Behavioral Face of Depression 135
Doing What Needs to Be Done 145
Effective Action: If It Works, Do It! 158
Living with a Depressed Person: The Interpersonal Face of Depression 171
A Healing Network: What Family and Friends Can Do 176
Help for the Whole Family 187
Help for Depression
How to Save a Life: Suicide Prevention 194
Desolations: Depression and Spirituality 202
The Healing Spirit: Values and Purpose Can Defeat Depression 212
Getting Help 220
Hope and Happiness for a Lifetime 233
The Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale 235
Suggested Readings and References 239
Index 243
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Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood
Author: Bill Hayes
"We're born in blood. Our family histories are contained in it, our bodies nourished by it daily. Five quarts run through each of us, along some sixty thousand miles of arteries, veins, and capillaries."
-from Five Quarts
In the national bestseller Sleep Demons, Bill Hayes took us on a trailblazing trip through the night country of insomnia. Now he is our guide on a whirlwind journey through history, literature, mythology, and science by means of the great red river that runs five quarts strong through our bodies.
Profusely illustrated, the journey stretches from ancient Rome, where gladiators drank the blood of vanquished foes to gain strength and courage, to modern-day laboratories, where high-tech machines test blood for diseases and dedicated scientists search for elusive cures. Along the way, there will be world-changing triumphs: William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood; Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's advances in making the invisible world visible in the early days of the microscope; Dr. Paul Ehrlich's Nobel-Prize-winning work in immunology; Dr. Jay Levy's codiscovery of the virus that causes AIDS. Yet there will also be ignorance and tragedy: the widespread practice of bloodletting via incision and the use of leeches, which harmed more than it healed; the introduction of hemophilia into the genetic pool of nineteenth-century European royalty thanks to the dynastic ambitions of Queen Victoria; the alleged spread of contaminated blood through a phlebotomist's negligence in modern-day California.
This is also a personal voyage, in which Hayes recounts the impact of the vital fluid in his daily life, from growing up in a household of fivesisters and their monthly cycles, to coming out as a gay man during the explosive early days of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, to his enduring partnership with an HIV-positive man.
As much a biography of blood as it is a memoir of how this rich substance has shaped one man's life, Five Quarts is by turns whimsical and provocative, informative and moving. It will get under your skin.
Wired - Jennifer Kahn
[Hayes'] account of the vital fluid is sure to make your heart beat faster.
Publishers Weekly
Hemophobes beware: there are five quarts of blood in the human body, and Hayes (Sleep Demons: An Insomniac's Memoir) pours all of them into this book. A gay man living in San Francisco with an HIV-positive partner, Hayes uses his own encounters with blood's ability to save and destroy lives as a launching point for anecdotes in the larger story of blood. His personal history runs like a river through this book, picking up the flotsam and jetsam of blood lore. He launches into an account of the discovery of blood's components and its function in the body, and meanders through cultural perceptions of blood, from the sacred (the Eucharist) to the profane (Dracula). Hayes ranges far beyond red and white blood cells, platelets and plasma, taking readers inside a modern blood bank and to the bedside of a woman with hemophilia; his keen perceptions show how the ancient view of blood as the essence of a person's soul still pervades our modern vocabulary and views on the vital fluid.His sometimes irreverent commentary on misconceptions about blood doesn't shy away from the gruesome, particularly a cringe-inducing description of early blood transfusion techniques. With his strong writing and a unique approach, Hayes satisfyingly addresses this life force. B&w illus. Agent, Wendy Weil. (On sale Jan. 25) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
A spry personal tour of hematology, from the author of Sleep Demons (2001). In blood, Hayes finds many of life's milestones. We are born in it, our family histories are defined by it, it permeates our religion and art. That first shaving nick, that first menstrual period-voila, adulthood! Blood also has a lengthy and fascinating history, drawn here with a sure if selective hand. Hayes starts his investigation some 1800 years ago with a Greek doctor named Galen. As an overseer of injured gladiators, he had a ringside seat when it came to the inner workings of the body. Galen was a big believer in the body's humors and in the art (as it were) of bloodletting, a practice that endured into the 20th century. Hayes moves about, looking into the enduring taboos associated with menstruation, the history of blood typing, the fictional Dracula and the very real blood-bathing Transylvanian Countess Elizabeth Bathory, the renegade phlebotomist Elaine Giorgi, and the Italian bank robbers, all infected with AIDS, who knew if caught they would be freed under the "compassionate release" law that prevents the terminally ill from serving time. He profiles the pioneering experiments of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, who first looked at blood under a microscope ("it consists of small round globules driven through a crystalline humidity of water," the Dutchman wrote in 1674), Paul Ehrlich's work with antibodies, and Jay Levy's discoveries concerning AIDS. The author also recounts life with his partner Steve, who learned he was HIV-positive in 1994. Being so close to the matter, Hayes wanted to know just what lay behind the nerve-racking, quarterly blood tests Steve underwent; his text brings us into the lab workinvolved and the research being done, submerging readers in blood's biology, chemistry, and politics. A popular and memorable recounting of blood's social and natural history, as well as Hayes's own close encounter with the vital fluid. (Illustrations throughout)Agent: Wendy Weil/Wendy Weil Agency
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