Treatments That Work: Overcoming Depression. Best used with a therapist, though. Also, David Burns's The Feeling Good Handbook, but ditto. You might also want Treatments That Work: Managing Social Anxiety or Mastery of Anxiety and Panic.
For memoirs, I cannot recommend Mark Vonnegut's Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So highly enough. It's unclear what he actually has - it's definitely not regular depression - but it's a great book and is wildly unlikely to make you feel like "My life is a disaster and I have failed at everything that matters." Unlike many people who write good mental illness memoirs, he's not a Pulitzer Prize winner or anything of that nature, just a good writer (and a pediatrician) who happens to be the son of someone incredibly famous.
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Date: 2016-01-28 03:26 am (UTC)For memoirs, I cannot recommend Mark Vonnegut's Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So highly enough. It's unclear what he actually has - it's definitely not regular depression - but it's a great book and is wildly unlikely to make you feel like "My life is a disaster and I have failed at everything that matters." Unlike many people who write good mental illness memoirs, he's not a Pulitzer Prize winner or anything of that nature, just a good writer (and a pediatrician) who happens to be the son of someone incredibly famous.