Publications: Books, Videos and Audio Tapes on Depression and Manic Depression - Wellness Recovery Action Plan

Written by Mary Ellen Copeland, M.S., M.A.

Wellness Recovery Action Plan

Learning self help skills for dealing with physical and emotional symptoms can be simple ... but it's a much greater challenge using self help methods during the most difficult times - when they can help the most - and incorporating them into daily life.

This book presents a system developed and used successfully by people with a variety of physical and emotional symptoms. It has helped them use self help skills more easily to monitor their symptoms, decrease the severity and frequency of symptoms, and improve the quality of their lives. Paperback, $10.00

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The Depression Workbook: A Guide to Living With Depression and Manic Depression

From the best selling author, Mary Ellen Copeland, comes the Second Edition of The Depression Workbook. Learn and practice the latest research-based self-help strategies to relieve depression and address other mental health issues including how to:

• Take responsibility for your own wellness
• Use charts to track and control your moods
• Find helpful care providers
• Build a system of mutual support
• Increase self-confidence and self-esteem
• Use relaxation, diet, exercise, and light to stabilize your moods
• Avoid conditions that can worsen your symptoms

A new chapter guides readers through developing your own plan for managing symptoms and staying well. This process, known as the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), was developed by a group of people who experience depression, or manic depression and/or have other mental health concerns and who now report that this plan helped them relieve their symptoms and improve the quality of their lives.

This edition is updated in all areas including new medical and holistic perspectives and extensive list of helpful resources and Web sites that will assist you in your journey to wellness. By letting you share more than a hundred case stories and empowering you with the most current therapeutic strategies, The Depression Workbook, Second Edition will give you insight, energy, and hope.

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Living Without Depression and Manic Depression: A Workbook for Maintaining Mood Stability

This workbook is not light reading. Neither, however, is it complicated, theoretical or esoteric. Living Without Depression and Manic Depression is a down-and-dirty guide for people who experience mood swings. It's a manual on how to wage guerilla warfare on emotional instability...hour by hour, season by season; in one's home or workplace; by using medication, diet, peer counseling, private and government agencies; and a host of other suggestions sent back from the battlefield.

Interactive exercises teach essential coping skills such as building a strong support system, fighting negative thoughts, finding appropriate professional help and using relaxation and exercise. Paperback $18.95

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Coping With Depression, Video Tape

There is a powerful message of hope in Mary Ellen Copeland's Coping With Depression. This video is for anyone struggling with depression: for family members, friends and health care professionals. Warm, helpful, and engaging, the video is the fruit of research and hundreds of interviews with depressed persons.

This tape shows how to incorporate into your life the strategies that the author and others have used successfully to keep their own depressive episodes at bay. An excellent educational resource, the video validates the feelings of people with depression and encourages a program of simple yet effective self-help techniques.

Well-known for her seminar and lecture presentations, Mary Ellen Copeland holds an MA in Counseling Psychology. Depression had a major impact on her life until she achieved long-term stability through the wellness program she describes on this video. Running time 60 minutes, VHS only. $39.95

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Living With Depression and Manic Depression, Audio Tape

Depression affects over 10 million people a year in the US Over an average lifetime, over 15 percent of the population will experience serious depressive reactions. Yet 80 percent of all depressives and manic depressives get better with proper treatment. Living With Depression and Manic Depression offers many effective self-help techniques that can enhance wellness and mood stability.

This audio tape describes a program based on years of research and hundreds of interviews with depressive and manic depressive persons. It inspires confidence that you can achieve real breakthroughs in coping. Warm, helpful, and engaging, the video is the fruit of research and hundreds of interviews with depressed persons. One cassette in a rigid plastic box, running time 90 minutes, $11.95

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