Understanding Depression
Harvard’s Understanding Depression Online Course is the reliable, go-to source for encouragement and practical advice to help you understand your illness and to discover the medications and therapy options to help you feel like yourself again.
If you suffer from depression, you know that it’s a dark place that goes way beyond ordinary sadness. It’s an illness that leaves you empty... feeling worthless and hopeless...even numb — making it a struggle to concentrate, make decisions and enjoy life.
We can’t “wish” depression away. We can’t solve our problems by “showing a little more backbone” or by “shaking off” the symptoms, as some may suggest.
But there is something you CAN do: You can learn all about the new and improved treatments to help dispel the darkness of depression that can help lighten your mood and help you feel more like yourself again!
Step-by-step, this Online Course helps you understand depression...walks you through a proper diagnosis...explains the diagnostic process...gives you a detailed look at medication and therapy options...and offers mood-lifting, self-care treatments to help take the edge off your symptoms.
Michael Craig Miller, MD
Michael Craig Miller, M.D., was Editor in Chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter from August 2000 to March 2012. Published monthly, the Harvard Mental Health Letter was read widely by professionals and non-professionals alike. Dr. Miller’s writing on mental health topics has appeared in Newsweek, the Boston Globe and in syndicated articles that appear in newspapers nationwide. He has appeared as a commentator on the Today Show, The Martha Stewart Show, ABC News, CNN, and NPR and for media outlets in the Boston area. In practice for more than 30 years, Dr. Miller is a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School and on the medical staff at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
