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Depression - More Than Just Sadness...

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Depression has had several names over the years, and it seems to be more common than ever. Luckily, it can be treated fairly easily too, if the sufferer knows that he or she has a problem and also seeks help, which is far too often not... Read More
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Depression has had several names over the years, and it seems to be more common than ever. Luckily, it can be treated fairly easily too, if the sufferer knows that he or she has a problem and also seeks help, which is far too often not the case. Most people "snap out of it" with a little help from their friends, although it can and does return. Others can't bear it any longer and take the ultimate escape route.

I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful, and profitable. Please be aware that I wrote the content of this ebook after a significant amount of research, but I am still not a health care provider. You are also granted the right to use these articles in your own publications.

Churchill, a renowned sufferer of depression, called it 'The Black Dog', but it has had several names over the years, and it seems to be more common now than ever. Luckily, it can be treated fairly easily too, if the sufferer knows that he or she has a problem and also seeks help, which is far too often not the case. Most people "snap out of it" with a little help from their friends, although it can and does return. Others can't bear it any longer and take the ultimate escape route.

I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful, and profitable. Please be aware that I wrote the content of this ebook after a significant amount of research, but I am still not a health care provider.

The information in this ebook on various aspects of depression and related subjects is organized into 16 chapters of about 500-600 words each. I hope that it will interest those who are concerned about the problems associated with depression in all its forms.

As an added bonus, I am granting you permission to use the content on your own website or in your own blogs and newsletters, although it is better if you rewrite them in your own words first. You may also split the book up and resell the articles. In fact, the only right that you do not have is to resell or give away the book as it was delivered to you.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788835461296

Publisher: Tektime

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 March 2026

Imprint: Tektime

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 4.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 82g

Pages: 74

About the Author

Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the `70`s, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis. After university, in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup, when he was accused of being a mercenary. Later, while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar on a home-made concrete yacht during Desert Storm. En voyage, the yacht was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker, and an American aircraft carrier - The Atlantic Challenger. Since 2004, he has lived mainly in the UK, Spain and Thailand. He now leads a somewhat quieter life in his wife`s remote, northern farming village writing, editing and increasing the number of translations, and narrations of his novels. As he says: "Born in the Land of Song, living in the Land of Smiles".

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