It's Not All in Your Head is the story of one man's search for the roots of a puzzling depression that struck suddenly in midlife and reaches back decades to childhood spent in a dysfunctional alcoholic household. This humanistic portrayal dispels widespread myths about depression and exposes its pervasive stigma. The author's story chronicles the surprising lessons learned during two lengthy, draining episodes of depression. Unlike a memoir the point of the story is to illuminate emerging, controversial findings from medical research that explain the physiological basis of these misunderstood disorders, demonstrating that "it's not all in your head"