A Day Called Hope

A searingly honest story of life with depression, this is also a book of real hope.

For several years Gareth O'Callaghan, one of Ireland's most popular broadcasters, suffered from severe depression. No one guessed that the minute he was off air, he would retreat to his bed, sometimes with thoughts of suicide, barely able to function as a husband and father of three small children.

In this candid and courageous account, he describes the nightmare he and his family lived through for so long. He looks back to the childhood, where he believes his low self-esteem took root, and traces a pattern common to so many depression sufferers.

As soon as he was diagnosed, Gareth began a determined fight back to health. Now fully recovered, free of antidepressants, more optimistic and fitter than ever, he has emerged with a deep understanding of how the condition takes hold - as well as how to loosen its grasp.

It has been an extraordinary journey - one which has given him immense insight, practical knowledge, a deep mistrust of conventional wisdom, and a mission to spread hope to all those affected by it.