Get rid of your depression: A selfhelp book for patients and their families.

About fourteen million Americans suffer from serious acute depression. Twenty thousand suicides a year - the high number of unreported cases are not even counted - are due to mental illness. Reliable estimates from the Ministry of Health assume that over ten million people under the age of 65 suffer from depression. Depression has become an epidemic. It is estimated that the economic damage caused by depression each year is up to 300 billion dollars by absence from work, early retirement and medical costs. More than 200 million people worldwide suffer from depression according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Thus, the immense pressure becomes clear which exists in our modern society by depression. The issue really needs to be taken very seriously. This eBook thus marks a beginning and provides a kind of "first aid" for patients and their families.