Coping Tools that Provide Relief for the Millions who Suffer from Severe Depression

In her new book, Out of Focus…Again: A Journey From Depression to Recovery Through Courage, Love and Commitment, Ann Kochenberger chronicles her years of desperation as the mother of two small children and as a young wife married to a university professor who found herself deep in the black abyss of depression. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) December 31, 2008 - Anyone who suffers from bi-polar and manic depressive illnesses, who is close to suicide, at the very least has thoughts of it, knows that neither medication nor therapy, although helpful, cannot provide immediate relief for those who are feeling dangerously close to suicide.

In Out of Focus…Again: A Journey From Depression to Recovery Through Courage, Love and Commitment, Ann Kochenberger chronicles her years of desperation as the mother of two small children and as a young wife married to a university professor who found herself deep in the black abyss of depression. Here she shares her story and her strategies in the hopes that others who find themselves in the grips of this debilitating illness will not only be able to recover but to recapture the best part of themselves and live a fulfilling life

Centered on her journal entries written over the past thirty-four years, Out of Focus…Again vividly details her daily struggles, her ambivalence of continuing to live, and, ultimately, her obsessive thoughts of suicide that brought her to the very edge of sanity.

Faced with the realization that the effects of medication and therapy were not the immediate fix she desperately needed, Ann began implementing her own coping strategies to help her as she struggled to cope through every moment of every day. Much of what she consistently did to help herself could not be found in self-help books but, rather, were strategies of her own invention.

Depression is a complex illness and often debilitating for those who suffer from it. Many who suffer from this insidious disease often hide their pain from others. Beyond medication, therapy and exercise, Kochenberger stresses that anyone who suffers from this has to learn ways to help his or herself each moment of every day.

Ann’s emphasis on each coping strategy, most of which seem unimportant to those who have escaped depression’s grasp, are vital when one is trying to endure the darkness. For Ann it was the moment-to-moment coping devices she implemented that she attributes to her ability to survive. For anyone who feels desperate enough to end his or her life this book is a beacon of light in a terrible darkness, written by someone who lived through it for far too long…and survived.

A retired teacher and university researcher/writer, Ann Kochenberger now devotes her time to family, exercising and writing. Articles about the subjects of family and recovery from depression have appeared in several periodicals. Out of Focus..Again is her first book. She resides in Denver, Colorado with her husband, a professor at the University of Colorado.

For additional information, go to: www.OutOfFocusAgain.com

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