While taking anti depression drugs and talk therapy are the treatment of choice for depression the depressed patient can pursue a large variety of different activities to significantly increase her chances to beat depression and to prevent it from coming back. Such activities range from a healthy nutrition and sports to building up the patient’s self-confidence.

Manic depressive disorder or bipolar disease is, together with major depression and dysthymia, classified as a deppressive disease. It has debilitating effects on its sufferers.