Children of the Depressed
Healing the Childhood Wounds That Come from Growing Up with a Depressed Parent

This book is likely to be somewhat useful to the target audience. It has some helpful questions to ask yourself in the process of understanding your own experience. Unfortunately, the actual problems of children of the depressed go far deeper than this book goes. I especially winced at the part that......more

This is an excellent reference and self-help book for those who grew up with depressed parents. The book identifies symptoms and behavior traits of the depressed. It gives some excellent exercises for healing and looking at the past wounds for the purpose of healing. The author also shows how many......more

It is so hard to find books on this topic. I always felt so alone in my childhood due to my mother’s depression and it felt like nobody understood what it was like to grow up that way. When I started this book I felt like it was written just for me. I felt understood and sobbed pretty much the entir......more

Insightful and helpful and highly recommended Reading this book really helped me put things into perspective and feel less isolated. Growing up I felt like my Sister and I were the only people experiencing all that comes with having a depressed parent, and it made me feel shame and guilt and resentme......more

I grew up in a home where one of my parents was depressed. And I will go into my personal analytics another day. For the purposes of this book recommendation, I will disclose that in the twelve years since moving out on my own, I have done A LOT of work on myself to get past the circumstances of my......more