Summary

According to World Health Organisation figures, 121 million people worldwide currently suffer from depression. In Britain alone, one adult in every twenty is depressed at any one time, yet around 60 per cent of us say we would feel embarrassed to ask our GP for help.

Depression affects people in all social classes, racial groups and at all ages, but millions of people suffer in silence, afraid to admit even to their families and close friends that they feel beaten and cannot find a way out. Alexandra Massey has been through the hell of depression and has come out the other side with a radical new book that offers a practical, realistic lifeline to help sufferers overcome the worst aspects of the condition without the use of medication. Her analysis of the root causes and experience of depression will speak volumes to those who suffer on a day-to-day basis.