Book Giveaway: Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes by Therese Borchard

Anna and Hatchette Book Group are sponsoring a giveaway of 5 copies of Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes by Therese Borchard.

About the Book:
Therese Borchard may be one of the frankest, funniest people on the planet. That, combined with her keen writing abilities has made her Beliefnet blog, Beyond Blue, one of the most trafficked blogs on the site.

Beyond Blue, the book, is part memoir/part self-help. It describes Borchard's experience of living with manic depression as well as providing cutting-edge research and information on dealing with mood disorders. By exposing her vulnerability, she endears herself immediately to the reader and then reduces even the most depressed to laughter as she provides a companion on the journey to recovery and the knowledge that the reader is not alone.

Comprised of four sections and twenty-one chapters, Beyond Blue covers a wide range of topics from codependency to addiction, poor body image to postpartum depression, from alternative medicine to psychopharmacology, managing anxiety to applying lessons from therapy. Because of her laser wit and Erma Bombeck sense of humor, every chapter is entertaining as well as serious.

About the Author, courtesy of Therese Borchard's website:

Therese Borchard is the author of the hit daily blog “Beyond Blue” on Beliefnet.com, which is featured weekly on The Huffington Post and was voted by PsychCentral.com as one of the top 10 depression blogs. Her memoir, Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes, has just been published by Hachette Book Group/Center Street, who will also release, in April 2010, a handsome volume of her therapy notes, called “The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional Survival Kit.”

Therese is becoming a top go-to expert in the field of pop-psychology. Her work has recently been cited in The Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, USA Today, Guideposts, and on Time.com, CNN.com, and Yahoo! She has been featured in O magazine, Psychology Today, Parenting, More, Redbook, Ladies’ Home Journal, and the Washington Post.

Therese moderates the popular depression support group, Beyond Blue, on Beliefnet’s social networking site. She lives with her husband, Eric, and their two “spirited” children in Annapolis, Maryland.

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The contest is limited to US and Canada only. No P.O. boxes. The contest ends at noon on February 28, 2010.

Thank you so much to Anna and Hatchette Book Group for sponsoring this giveaway!