With one in five people being treated for depression it raises the question "is this really depression?". In the past depression was considered a major psychiatric illness usually involving hospitalisation. The widening of the criteria has led to difficulty differentiating between depressive disorders and unhappiness (dysphoria). Drug treatments may change the mood of those sufferers but does nothing to treat underlying unhappiness.
This book seeks to give back the tools to reassess "depression" and identifies the pathways to move from unhappiness back to happiness. Using sequential steps the book identifies how people can reconnect with their own resilience to experience happiness as a life expectation.
