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Books By Anne Sheffield
Depression Fallout, The Impact of Depression on Couples and What You Can Do to Preserve the Bond
April 2003.
An honest record of what happens to love relationships when depression enters the picture, with practical
advice on what non-depressed partners can do to weather the crisis, keep the relationship intact,
and help their loved one.
Of the millions of Americans who suffer from depression, few suffer in solitude. Unwittingly, they draw the
people they love--spouses, lovers, children, parents, friends and co-workers--into their illness. In her
first award-winning book, "How You Can Survive When They're Depressed," Anne Sheffield coined the phrase
depression fallout to describe the emotional toll on the depression sufferer's family and close friends,
who feel guilty about their sometimes negative reactions and neglect their own needs.
In this new book, Sheffield speaks specifically to people in love relationships with someone who is depressed,
using the moving material from this web site's message board, current research in psychiatry and psychology,
and her own insights to offer coping strategies for depression fallout sufferers. An expert at weaving
together stories and framing them in ways that help readers, Sheffield offers useful and reliable
information, support, inspiring stories, and a community of peers.
You can download the introduction to the book
and take a look at the
Do you have depression fallout quiz. An excerpt from chapter 1 is
also available at sheknows.com.
- "As a psychiatrist I admire and recommend this inspired guide to the hell imposed by a partner's
depression and the coping strategies it offers. Remarkably, Anne Sheffield's own experience of depression
fallout has dulled neither her insights nor her sense of humor."
- Dr. Donald F. Klein, Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University
1999
How You Can Survive When They're Depressed
HOW YOU CAN SURVIVE WHEN THEY'RE DEPRESSED: Living and Coping with Depression Fallout
May 1999
The book that led the way and is still the best source for information, guidance, support and help for
people who live with and/or love someone with a depressive illness.
The Coping Topics page has six powerful excerpts from this book.
- "[This is] an extraordinary book, full of the insights that come from the fact that Anne herself was
a victim of depression fallout ... She's got it right, and believe me, she'll help you cope."
From the Foreword by Mike Wallace
- "Anne Sheffield has guided me to fresh recognition of myself in relation to my long-term spouse,
again and again. I wish we'd had this book decades ago." -- Rose Styron
- "Written in an engaging, articulate style, How You Can Survive When They're Depressed combines the
personal with the practical and will serve as a gift to the millions of people who accompany the
people they love on the journey to hell and back." -- Martha Manning, author of Undercurrents
Sorrow's Web, Overcoming the Legacy of Maternal Depression October 2000
Another ground breaking book. Drawing on her experience of growing up with a depressed mother and then,
years later, of becoming a depressed mother herself, Books for a Better Life winner Anne Sheffield
casts long-overdue light on the grave threat to the health and happiness of millions of women and their
children posed by maternal depression.
- "In Sorrow's Web Sheffield identifies depression as a poison that can contaminate what is usually one
of the most fiercely positive connections--that between a mother and child. She shows how it affects
their relationship even before birth, and how its effects resonate across generations. With equal
compassion for mothers and children, Sheffield integrates research with riveting interviews, which makes
for a compelling read.... A hopeful book and a rallying cry for early intervention." --MARTHA
MANNING, author of Undercurrents
- "Anne Sheffield's book offers important help to depressed mothers. She has beautifully and eloquently
captured recent advances in the study of depression and provides vital practical advice for both
sufferers and those around them. I highly recommend it." -- William Beardslee, M.D., Gardner Monks
Professor of Child Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry,
Children's Hospital, Boston
- "A remarkable book based on careful research. Going beyond simple 'feel good' solutions, Sorrow's
Web's message is skillfully couched in elegant prose and poignant personal history--Sheffield's own
as well as that of others. Highly recommended for depressed parents, child 'survivors,' and
professionals alike." --PETER S. JENSEN, M.D., Ruane Professor of Child Psychiatry, and Director,
Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health, Columbia University
Sorrow's Web is now available as an eBook for you computer or Palm. You can
purchase the eBook and download it from ebooks.com.
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