Depression Is Contagious

Depression is the world's most common mood disorder, and it's spreading fast: at the current rate, the World Health Organization predicts it will leap from the fourth to the second greatest cause of human suffering and disability in the world by the year 2020. And the shocking spread of this debilitating disorder isn't fated by brain chemistry, genes, diet, or personal weakness, as we're too often taught -- rather, the latest research provides overwhelming evidence that depression is far more a social problem than a medical disease. Depression doesn't just infect a single individual and then stay contained within him or her. Depression's effects reach into the interactions you have with others, rippling destructively through marriages, families, work environments, and communities like a viral contagion. Drugs can't repair or protect your relationship from depression, but the skills expert psychologist Dr. Michael D. Yapko teaches us in this powerful book can.

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In this 9 minute interview Dr. Yapko describes his new book and how depression is spread like a social contagion through our relationships with others. He explains the skills necessary for helping ourselves out of depression through skills not pills.

In this 50 minute interview with Vanessa Van Petten from www.radicalparenting.com Dr. Yapko talks about teens and depression.