Synopses & Reviews
"Anne Sheffield has guided me to fresh recognitions of myself in relation to my long-term spouse, again, and again. I wish we'd had this book decades ago". -- Rose Styron
More than 17 million Americans suffer from depressive illnesses, and the emotional turmoil caused by their symptoms touches their parents, children, friends, lovers, and coworkers every day. Anne Sheffield, who lived through the nightmare of her mother's depression, shares the lessons she learned in this book. Using examples from her own life and from members of her support group, Sheffield delineates where one's responsibility for a clinically depressed person begins and ends: how to guard against assuming blame and becoming demoralized; and what to do about the anger and the desire to escape that being with a depressed person so often provokes. Most important, she shows readers how to create compassionate, fair, and inviolable boundaries and regain control of their own lives.
"Anne Sheffield has guided me to fresh recognitions of myself in relation to my long-term spouse, again, and again. I wish we'd had this book decades ago". -- Rose Styron
"Sheffield offers approaches that will help families understand not only the diagnosed sufferer in their midst, but themselves". -- Martha Manning, Ph.D., author of Undercurrents