depression in women

"What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankim?ki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen--of Out of Africa--fame lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Artemisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago, why can't Mia? The Women I Think About at Night is part travelogue and part thrilling exploration of the lost women adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to see--and change--the world"--From the publisher's web site.

A memoir interweaving the author's descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of this illness.

At the age of twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her Manhattan kitchen floor. She was severely depressed. Her mother raced from Ohio to New York, after Julie's incoherent phone call, and took her home. As Julie sunk into suicidal depression because of troubling childhood memories, she was unable to get help from anyone. One day she decided to adopt a Golden Retriever puppy named Bunker and she slowly started on the path to recovery.

Presents an examination of the onset of depression during pregnancy, providing the scientific information on the emotional side of pregnancy.

"After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in different eras."--from publisher's description.

Explores how binge eating, drinking, and overthinking work together to threaten the health and well-being of women, and offers advice on how women can overcome these three problems and lead happier, more productive lives.