Depression

Depression: Out of the Shadows
$24.99
I think the movie is really great if you want to understand how it feels as one who are suffering from the illness.

The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression: A Step-by-step Program (Workbook)
$22.95
A useful manual with a method, for a pernicious problem. Its approach will allow the reader to challenge trends of thought stemming from melancholia, i.e. depressive thoughts. It will take a lot of self-discipline to work through this book and may be beyond what someone in a depressive hole can muster.

One flaw is that the book takes the perfunctory slap at the Catholic Church, blaming it for labeling depression "a work of Satan". That theory is not mutually exclusive with the also Catholic approach to scruples, a disease with common characteristics to melancholy. The Roman Catholic Church pioneered psychological methods for dealing with melancholia, and to slam it for seeing the hand of Satan in the loss of vitality in depression is a cheap, inaccurate shot. (See for example, the excellent book by Massmann on nervous disorders and temperament.)

Conversely, the authors laud Buddhism for its approach to controlling the mind and errant thoughts. If you know much about Buddhism, you will realize that it is a very depressive philosophy, and will give rise to major depressive thinking IF you take it seriously. The life-hating philosophy of Buddhism, that life is illusion and to be born at all is bad news (to quote one book on Buddhism written by a Western practitioner), can easily engender a feeling of loss and hopelessness.

If you can ignore the author's twenty-first century American bias in favor of Eastern mysticism and against the Catholic Church, you will probably find it a useful method to identify and change the thinking that causes depression.

Amoryn Depression Anxiety Relief (60 Caps)
$28.48
This item seems to help just about as well as the different prescription meds I've tried, without the dreaded sexual side effects.

The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
$19.95
The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness is a great resource for anyone who has ever been trapped in the seemingly never ending cycle of a depressive disorder. The authors explain how the cycle feeds upon itself to keep us in a chronically unhappy state, and how to stop that cycle. Once again, a wonderful resource.