Depression at university : a pocket guide

This illustrated pocket book offers advice, practical tips and usefulexercises for students to combat low moods and depression at university. Written by the award-winning student mental health specialist, Dr DominiqueThompson, this easy-to-read guide will ensure that students have all the tools theyneed to understand the sources of their depression and take steps to reclaim theirlife from its debilitating effects. Although plenty of people talk about depression, there are still a lotof misconceptions about it.

This book will clearly explore what depression is,and investigate the ways in which it can affect anyone.

With extracts fromstudents' own accounts about their depression, and how they learned to manageit, and lots of practical, easy-to-follow examples and exercises, the book willhelp readers understand their depression, so they can deal with it in the rightway for them. Above all, this book will help readers gain real power over theirdepression so that they can enjoy the full university experience on theirterms.