Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-192).

Depression is America's most common mental illness, suffered by seventeenmillion of us. It is estimated that 98% of all Americans will be forced to cope in some waqy with this devastating illness. As a young man, Mitch Golant had to face the fact that his mother was seriously depressed. How he and his family learned to live with this crippling condition, and how it catapulted Mitch into life as a clinical psychologist, is just the beginning of this book, which teaches you how to battle depression in someone you love.