By: Harold H. Bloomfield, Book Review - Can Depression Be Successfully Treated with Hypericum BOOK REVIEW

HYPERICUM & DEPRESSION Can Depression Be Successfully Treated with a Safe, Inexpensive, Medically Proven Herb Available without a Prescription?

This book by Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D. Mikael Nordfors, M.D. & Peter McWilliams Authors of How to Heal Depression A Breakthrough in the Treatment of Depression. Recent medical studies indicate that, for many people, hypericum, a natural herb, is as effective in treating depression as prescription antidepressants. Hypericum is inexpensive because it costs about twenty-five cents a day.

It is available without a prescription and is free of practically all the side effects often associated with antidepressant medications. Hypericum is the herb Hypericum perforatum, also known as St. John's wort.

Hypericum has been used for thousands of years as a medicine. In Hypericum & Depression, two noted psychiatrists report on the recent medical research that could change the way depression is treated in America. In Germany, hypericum accounts for more than fifty percent of the antidepressant market. Prozac has two percent. In a simple, straightforward style the authors explain what depression is. They explain how to know if one is depressed, the medical effects of hypericum on depression, and where to find standardized hypericum as not all hypericum supplements are alike.

Also included in this book are summaries of selected medical studies on hypericum and depression. If you know anyone who is depressed or if you think you may be depressed yourself this book is must reading. Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., is a world-renowned Yale-trained psychiatrist.

He has been in clinical practice for more than twenty-five years, specializing in the treatment of depression. His books which have sold more than six million copes and have been translated into twenty-four languages include How to Heal Depression, How to survive the Loss of a Love, and The Power of 5. Dr. Bloomfield has a private practice in Del Mar, California.

Mikael Nordfors, M.D., is a psychiatrist researcher at Sahlgrehnska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden. His medical knowledge, research skills and fluency in several languages have been invaluable in tracking down, translating, and understanding the medical studies on hypericum.

Peter McWilliams is a writer and video author. His books include How to Heal depression, How to Survive the Loss of a Love and You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought.

Hypericum & Depression contains additional topics topics. Inside are the success rates for the treatment of depression with this herbal treatment. Which is now over 80%. Once considered a purely psychological problem, depression may have a physiological cause as well.

An untreated episode of depression dramatically increases the chances for another episode.. Depression is not a lack of mental, physical, or moral character. It's an illness. Depression can be both hereditary and contagious. There are differences between Prozac, Hypericum, Effexor and other antidepressants.

Women suffer from depression twice as frequently as men. Women are four times more likely to attempt suicide than men. 50-75% of women experience postpartum blues following childbirth. 10% of those women develop postpartum depression. Over 50% of the reported cases of impotence in men are due to depression. Most men are in denial about suffering from depression. The suicide rate for men 4 times higher than that of women.

The symptoms of depression in seniors are often misdiagnosed as getting old, rather than the reality that they are suffering from an untreated depression. People over 65 are four times more likely to suffer from depression than the general population. Insurance companies often cover only the treatment of the symptoms of depression, but not the treatment of the depression itself.

Two percent of all children about 300,000 and 5% of all teens or about 750,000 suffer from depression. Depression is the leading contributor to teenage suicide which has tripled in recent years as well as drug and alcohol abuse and or addiction, eating disorders, insomnia, compulsions.

The 9 to 5 blues or the feeling of being drained, fatigued, short-tempered, and unproductive drug alcohol abuse, workaholism, insomnia, eating disorders, and frequently sick. Untreated depression costs this country over $43 billion dollars each year in sleeping pills, pain killers, etc. treating the symptoms of depression and not the depression itself. Have you checked your mailbox for this medical breakthrough.
According to Time Magazine German and American researchers report the herb known as St. John's wort may be effective in treating depression.

Hypericum is simply the extract from the plant known as St. John's wort that's proven to be an effective treatment for mild to moderate depression. What does this mean? It means that the lives of millions of people who are still suffering from depression because they are either afraid of the side-effects of Prozac, can't afford Prozac, or have been unable or unwilling due to the social stigma attached to mental illness to obtain a prescription can now be helped.

Hypericum has few side-effects, costs $10-$20 per month, is safe because it's completely natural and is available without a prescription from just about any health-food store. According to Dr. Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., co-author of Hypericum & Depression.

The information in Hypericum & Depression will forever change the way depression is treated in America. In Germany, for example, Hypericum accounts for over 50% of the antidepressant market, Prozac less than 2%. It's also important that people understand that this is not an herbal book. It's a book which discusses a medical breakthrough in the effective treatment of depression.