Not all depression is Depression. Sometimes it's a terrible job, a loved one lost, a marriage collapsing. 

But some depressions -- especially those that keep coming back -- are bipolar depression. Yet these can be extremely hard to recognize. Your doctor doesn't have time to examine every symptom. It may be up to you to help.  

Why Am I Still Depressed? is for people whose depressions keep coming back. If you clearly have depression, but you also have anxiety, irritability, mood swings, sleep problems, or thoughts that just won't quit -- you might need this book.  Make sure you don't have some subtle "bipolarity" before you take antidepressants; or find out why they may not be working. Learn about the many non-medication treatments for mood swings; and the pills too. 

"Jim Phelps provides a nuanced and clinically wise rendition of the state of the art... While books on depression abound, I have not seen a book of this kind...a practical book about what we know and what we really do not know, and how to make decisions anyway."
from the Foreword by S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D.,  Director of the Bipolar Disorder Research Program, Emory University

"Dr Phelps is more like a gourmet chef ... looking at a wide variety of signs and symptoms, ferreting out even the smallest change of mood as evidence of bipolar disorder in people who had previously been thought to have major depression... I challenge you to read the book and digest the information Dr Phelps presents - a big bite to swallow at first, but it makes absolute, perfect sense."
Colleen Sullivan, architect of BipolarWorld.net