Up without Meds: Five lifestyle decisions correct your chemical imbalance so you recover from depression naturally, even when antidepressants have failed

Here's the new research that identifies the true cause of depression and points to the first reliable treatment for your mood disorder. In this groundbreaking book, a Harvard-trained scholar and former depressive shows you how to achieve a full recovery with a safe, natural, effective self-treatment approach that frees you from depression for life--no matter how bad your genes, your childhood, or your brain chemistry. You find out what's really been getting you down all your life, and how to eliminate those causes--with or without drugs or psychotherapy. You learn how to control your mood, no matter what's happening in your life. And you're given a plan for preventive conditioning as well as an emergency routine that you use to pull yourself out of the spiral when you start to get depressed. Will the approach work for you? It depends on your answers to these four questions: Can you walk? Is it possible you could eat a little differently? Are you capable of enjoying other people under the right circumstances? Would you be willing to turn off the TV an hour earlier some nights? If you can say yes to these questions, this approach will work for you. Please stop thinking you get depressed because you're somehow defective. It simply isn't true, and hundreds of studies prove it. This is the book that establishes once and for all that you were born to be buoyant and shows you how to reclaim the lightness of being that is your birthright.