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"A down-to-earth, hopeful, useful--and, from the point of view of this 'recovered' depressive--accurate account of how to treat depression."--Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes. Colette Dowling watched depression destroy her husband's life and leap to the next generation to nearly destroy her daughter's--until dramatic help was found. Now her ground-breaking book offer the same lifesaving help to the millions who still suffer depression and related disorders--which include panic, anxiety, phobias, PMS, alcohol and drug abuse, bulimia, migraine, and obesity. You Mean I Don't Have To Feel This Way? documents the latest research that links depression and related disorders to a physical cause and shows why willpower, understanding, and psychotherapy so often fail to work. It explains the state-of-the-art medical treatments that can bring about dramatic improvement--and often full recovery--within weeks. This important book includes: startling new links between eating disorders, addiction, and depression. How to recognize the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders. Vital information about new treatments for depressed children and adolescents. A guide to breakthrough drugs for treating mood, anxiety, and eating disorders. The newest research on the use of antidepressants to prevent substance-abuse relapse. How to find expert help and evaluate the treatment you are given. Upbeat, filled with hope and warmth, Colette Dowling's book will change minds and save lives.

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Library Journal Review

Serotonin is a brain hormone, one of several neurotransmitters that influence the way we feel and the way we think. In this book, Dowling, author of The Cinderella Complex ( LJ 6/15/81) and Perfect Women ( LJ 10/1/88), reports on the work of biopsychiatrists who are exploring the relationships between various disorders, including bulimia and compulsive gambling, and an underlying link to low levels of serotonin, for which there may be a genetic tendency. Dowling offers understanding and encouragement to those who have tried medication without results. She does not reject psychotherapy. She discusses the pros and cons of medical intervention and offers case histories, including personal experience. Recommended for self-help collections. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/91.--Ed.-- Marlene Charnizon, C.S.W, formerly with ``Library Journal'' (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

Dowling ( The Cinderella Complex) here challenges the popular belief that depression, panic disorder, addictions and a host of other psychiatric problems result from events in childhood psychologi cal influences or moral weakness. Witness to both her daughter's and husband's severe depression, the author became convinced that biochemical--not psychological--difficulties were the cause. She presents the latest research in brain chemistry and argues that a lack of serotonin--a natural ``feel-good'' chemical--is responsible for an array of mental and mood disorders. Alcoholics, for example, are attempting to replace the missing chemical and may be better helped through drug therapy than by 12-step and other nonmedical treatment programs. Similarly, people who suffer from chronic depression or anxiety attacks may be cured by taking antidepressives. Although well-written and carefully researched, the book oversimplifies a serious issue and, in effect, claims that all problems can be eradicated by taking a ``magic'' pill, while dismissing the role of traditional psychotherapy. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

Here is a wise and warm tome, born from the pain of a family's mental illness, that should bring knowledge and hope to the millions of Americans who suffer from mood disorders and substance addiction. Dowling (author of The Cinderella Complex) has done her job superbly: conducting interviews with noted psychiatrists, psychopharmacologists, families, and patients; offering well-written, comprehensible interpretations of current research; including dozens of personal stories uncovering the growing conviction that these disorders are biological illnesses and can be treated by a combination of medication and therapy. Specifically, low levels of certain neurotransmitters in the brain may trigger depression, anxiety attacks, bulimia nervosa, even severe cases of PMS. With medication as powerful as antidepressants (witness the outcry over Prozac) comes caution, and she alerts readers to signs, symptoms, and expectations, both within the text and through extensive appendixes. A resolution, in part, to the nature-nurture debate, with a tribute to the enormous powers of medical research. Appended is information on pharmacological treatment of bulimia nervosa, MAO inhibitors and hypertensive crises, food restrictions for patients on MAO inhibitors, and facilities with combined treatment programs for substance abuse and mood disorders. ~--Barbara Jacobs

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The author of numerous books, including The Cinderalla Complex, which has been in print since its 1981 publication. She lives in Woodstock, New York.

(Bowker Author Biography)