'Beating the Blues' introduces a step-by-step program for overcoming depression, enabling you the break the lethargy circuit and conquer feelings of hopelessness, persistent bouts of jealousy, loneliness and the suicidal impulse. The authors offer strategies for shedding 'faulty thinking habits.'Using questionnaires, self-tests and case studies from their own work they demonstrate that you can control what you think and therefore how you feel. There is a special chapters for families, 'How to live with someone who is depressed,' and advice on seeking professional help. This book reveals how we can all turn our moods around and use them to change our lives for the better.