Silver Linings or Tell Me What to Eat As I Approach Menopause

Silver Linings: Breaking Through the Clouds of Depression

Author: Florence Littauer

When you're depressed, it's as if there's a cloud hovering over your days. Everything is gray, daily life is too much effort, and it's easier just to stay in bed. It's a feeling Florence Littauer remembers well. As a young mother, she suffered some intense personal blows and began to see her life as hopeless. But her story didn't end there. Through God's grace, Florence began to realize that there could be a silver lining to her life, and that she could move past the cloud that had enveloped her.

With the authority of one who has counseled hundreds of women and has been there herself, Littauer offers practical solutions for getting out from under depression. Silver Linings also provides Scripture-based guidance for those who find themselves living with or informally counseling people with depression. Above all, Silver Linings offers help, hope, and the promise of a brighter day for those who struggle with depression.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	9
1	Depression Days	11
2	What Is Depression?	17
3	What Are the Symptoms of Depression?	27
4	Who Gets Depressed?	43
5	How to Find the Silver Lining	65
6	Start Reaching for the Silver Lining	85
7	When You Need Outside Help	101
8	Nobody Knows the Troubles I've Seen	107
9	Can Dark Clouds Have Silver Linings?	131
10	How to Live With a Depressed Person	147
11	How to Counsel a Depressed Person	155
12	What About Teen Suicide?	187
13	When It's Too Late	203
14	'Tis the Season to Be Jolly!	209
Appendix A	Depression: My Spiritual Battle for Deliverance	223
Appendix B	The Bipolar Express: Finding God on the Emotion Locomotive	229

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Tell Me What to Eat As I Approach Menopause

Author: Elaine Mage

Tell Me What to Eat As I Approach Menopause begins with an overview of menopause and perimenopause. Readers get a detailed yet completely understandable picture of the changes taking place inside them. A picture that is based on the latest medical information. Readers gain a better understanding of why they feel the way they do, and more important, they discover simple, practical things they can do to improve their diet so they feel better and cope more easily with the symptoms.