How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown

by Edward Shorter

Book Overview

About one American in five receives a diagnosis of major depression over the course of a lifetime. That's despite the fact that many such patients have no mood disorder; they're not sad, but suffer from anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, or a tendency to obsess about the whole business. "There is a term for what they have," writes Edward Shorter, "and it's a good old-fashioned term that has gone out of use. They have nerves."

In How Everyone Became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199948089
• ISBN13: 9780199948086
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"