Your Playbook for Beating Depression: Essential Strategies for Managing and Living with Depression

Take control and reclaim your life from depression. Millions live with depression, but you're not alone. Your Playbook for Beating Depression offers essential strategies to understand, manage, and thrive while living with this condition.

Combining clinical expertise and lived experience, this guide helps you become the captain of your own recovery team. Learn to recognize depression as a medical issue, gain insights into proven treatments, and discover how to live a fulfilling life despite the challenges.

• Understand depression as a medical issue
• Gain insights into proven and effective treatments
• Get the most out of life while living with depression

For individuals with depression, their families, and mental health professionals, this playbook provides the tools and hope needed to navigate the path to well-being. Authors Cliff Richey and Mary Garrison empower you to take charge and beat depression.

Mary E. Garrison is currently in her 12th year of teaching full time at Millikin University and has had extensive experience in the social work field, with over fifteen years of practice in mental health services, policy, and advocacy. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and an immediate past board member for the Illinois Chapter. She is a past recipient of the NASW Illinois Social Worker of the Year Award, the Cesar Chavez Social Justice Award, and the first ever recipient of the Macon County Continuum of Care Advocate of the Year Award (2015). Cliff Richey was the top pro tennis player in the United States in 1970, a winner of 45 pro singles titles, and a two-time member of the championship-winning U.S. Davis Cup team. The author of the book Acing Depression, he organizes charity tournaments to raise mental health awareness around the country. He lives in San Angelo, Texas.