When a loved one is sick, you want to help. When the illness is clinical depression, and the loved one is a man, it can be hard to know what exactly that help should be. Enter Dr. Douglas Bey. In Loving a Depressed Man, he writes directly to the caregiving wife or girlfriend in a down-to-earth manner, with true stories and specific advice from his decades as a front-line psychiatrist. Loving a Depressed Man not only sheds light on what a depressed man is going through it also offers specific, expert advice on how to help--and ways to persuade him to seek professional help. Included are suggestions on what to say and not to say, as well as activities that may help. Dr. Bey also clearly explains the benefits and possible side effects of the medications most often prescribed. And, throughout, he shows the reader how to maintain her own morale.
